Infant mortality in Portugal 1910-2020
The infant mortality rate in Portugal, for children under the age of one year old, was over 134 deaths per thousand births in 1910. This means that for all babies born in 1910, over thirteen percent did not survive past their first birthday. Over the next 25 years, the Spanish Flu pandemic and instability caused by regime changes resulted in the fluctuation of Portugal's infant mortality rate. However, from 1935 until today, figures steadily declined, from 146 to just three deaths per thousand births.