§ Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will include in the OFFICIAL REPORT a table showing the morality rate; the infant morality rate; the prenatal morality rate per 1,000 total births; and the maternal
Country Crude death rate per 1,000 population Infant death rate (deaths of infants under 1 year of age per 1,000 livebirths) Perinatal death rate (stillbirths and deaths of infants under 1 week of age per 1,000 total live and stillbirths) Maternal death rate (principal and associated maternal causes of death per 1,000 total live and stillbirths) Great Britain … 12.0 (1973)* 17 (1973)* 21 (1973)* 0.13 (1973)* Belgium … 12.0 (1972)* 20 (1972)* 25 (1969) 0.20 (1969) Denmark … 10.2 (1972)* 14 (1970) 18 (1970) 0.08 (1970) France … 10.6 (1972)* 16 (1972)* 23 (1970) 0.27 (1970) Germany, Federal republic of … 11.8 (1972)* 23 (1971) 26 (1970) 0.51 (1970) Ireland, Republic of … 10.6 (1971)* 20 (1970) 24 (1970) 0.31 (1970) Italy … 9.6 (1972)* 28 (1971) 31 (1970) 0.54 (1970) Luxembourg … 12.9 (1971) 14 (1972)* 24 (1970) 0.66 (1971) Netherlands … 8.5 (1972)* 11 (1972)* 19 (1970) 0.13 (1971) Sweden … 10.4 (1972)* 11 (1971) 16 (1970) 0.10 (1970)* Switzerland … 8.7 (1972)* 14 (1971) 18 (1970) 0.25 (1970) * Provisional.