Infant mortality declined from 200 per thousand in the early years of New China to 33.2 per thousand in 1998,and the mortality of children under the age of five was down to 42 per thousand.

• 婴儿死亡率由新中国成立初期的200‰降至1998年的33.；2‰，5岁以下儿童死亡率也降至42‰。