Sulawesi Barat Has the Highest Infant Mortality Rate
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West Sulawesi had the highest infant mortality rate (IMR) in Indonesia in 2016. A publication by the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) in the 2016 Sustainable Development Indicators recorded 50 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in the province. Papua followed in second place with 46 infant deaths, and West Papua with 45. The publication cited pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, measles, and malnutrition as causes of infant mortality.
The BPS, based on data from the Indonesian Population Projection over the last five years (2012-2016), recorded a consistent decline in the national IMR. In 2012, Indonesia's IMR was 28 per 1,000 live births; by 2016, it had fallen to 26 per 1,000 live births. This figure is also significantly lower than the 1990 IMR of 84 deaths per 1,000 births. Due to this success, Indonesia is among the lower-middle-income countries that have managed to reduce under-five mortality rates by two-thirds.
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