infmortrate {openintro}

Infant Mortality Rates, 2012

Description

This entry gives the number of deaths of infants under one year old in 2012 per 1,000 live births in the same year. This rate is often used as an indicator of the level of health in a country.

Usage

infmortrate

Format

A data frame with 222 observations on the following 2 variables.

country

Name of country.

inf_mort_rate

Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births.

Details

The data is given in decreasing order of infant mortality rates. There are a few potential outliers.

Source

CIA World Factbook, https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/infant-mortality-rate/country-comparison.

Examples

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(infmortrate, aes(x = inf_mort_rate)) +
  geom_histogram(binwidth = 10)

ggplot(infmortrate, aes(x = inf_mort_rate)) +
  geom_density()