On 28 Jan 2003 at 19:46, Marc de Piolenc wrote: > PS - the infant mortality statistics are bogus; they are a > record-keeping artefact. Other countries (notably Sweden, to which the > USA is always being compared) don't "count" a child as born until it > has reached a certain age (three weeks in Sweden). Guess when most > infant deaths occur?
Interesting datum. Could you give a source for this. If true, needs wide publicity, since we web search for "infant mortality" and Sweden gives a zillion hits, all saying what you would expect.
