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Table 1 Death and unintentional suffocation of children under five years of age from 2009 to 2018

From: Healthy China 2030: how to control the rising trend of unintentional suffocation death in children under five years old

Year

Number of live births

Children under 5 years old

Unintentional suffocation

Percentage of deaths in children under 5 years of age (%)

N

Mortality Rate (per 1000 persons)

N

Mortality Rate (per 100,000 persons)

2009

781,026

8482

10.9

709

90.8

8.4

2010

797,902

8636

10.8

584

73.2

6.8

2011

805,360

7509

9.3

586

72.8

7.8

2012

838,974

7343

8.8

642

76.5

8.7

2013

821,345

5747

7.0

466

56.7

8.1

2014

780,572

5087

6.5

316

40.5

6.2

2015

781,066

4791

6.1

404

51.7

8.4

2016

795,399

4435

5.6

405

50.9

9.1

2017

834,955

4084

4.9

379

45.4

9.3

2018

705,524

3766

5.3

442

62.6

11.7

Total

7,942,123

59,880

7.5

4933

62.1

8.2

χ2

 

4729.545

291.504

 

P

 

< 0.001

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