2019 IMRs and alignment with WHO recommendations by World Bank economic country groupings of per capita income as of 1 July 2020
| Low-income economies | * WHO recs met | IMR M (SD) = 40.7 (11.9) | Lower-middle income economies | * WHO recs met | IMR M (SD) = 35.4 (18.5) | Upper-middle-income economies | * WHO recs met | IMR M (SD) = 11.1 (6.6) | High-Income economies | * WHO recs met | Imr M (SD) = 3.4 (0.6) |
| Burkina Faso | 3 | 54 | Bangladesh | 7 | 26 | Brazil | 2 | 12 | Australia | 5 | 3 |
| Ethiopia | 0 | 37 | Côte d'Ivoire | 2 | 59 | China | 0 | 7 | Canada | 8 | 4 |
| Malawi | 6 | 31 | India | 1 | 28 | Indonesia | 1 | 20 | France | 1 | 4 |
| Kenya | 5 | 32 | Jamaica | 2 | 12 | Germany | 5 | 3 | |||
| Myanmar | 2 | 36 | Malaysia | 0 | 7 | Ireland | 1 | 3 | |||
| Nepal | 5 | 26 | Mexico | 3 | 12 | Italy | 1 | 3 | |||
| Nigeria | 3 | 74 | Thailand | 0 | 8 | Japan | 1 | 2 | |||
| Philippines | 1 | 22 | Norway | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Vietnam | 2 | 16 | Portugal | 0 | 3 | ||||||
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 6 | |||||||||
| Singapore | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| Spain | 2 | 3 | |||||||||
| UK | 3 | 4 | |||||||||
| USA | 1 | 6 |
World Bank Country and Lending Groups as of 1 July 2020; low-income economies = US$ 1035 or less; lower-middle income economies = US$ 1036 to US$ 4045; upper-middle-income economies = US$ 4046 to US$ 12 535; high-income economies = US$12 536 or more; https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups.
IMR (per 1000 live births) 2019 data, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.IMRT.IN.
*WHO recs met = number of WHO recommendations met in country guidance document analysed of the nine possible recommendations: S2S contact; EIBF; rooming-in; direct BF; expressed mother’s own milk; DHM; WN; PS-M; PS-I.
DHM, donor human milk; IMR, infant mortality rate; PS-I, psychological support for separated infants; PS-M, psychological support for separated mothers; S2S, skin-to-skin; WN, wet nursing.