Infant Mortality Rate
- total: 10.18 deaths/1,000 live births
- country comparison to the world: 153
- male: 13.3 deaths/1,000 live births
- female: 6.88 deaths/1,000 live births (2009)
Read more about this topic: Demographics Of American Samoa, CIA World Factbook Demographic Statistics
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