CHD mortality rate among infants in urban and rural China 2015-2021
In 2021, the mortality rate of congenital heart disease among infants in China dropped to 14.9 per 100,000 in urban areas and 23 per 100,000 in rural regions. Although the rate dropped substantially in the past decade, the disease, together with other types of congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities remained a major killer of children in China.