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Number and Rate of Resident Infant Deaths by County
West Virginia, 2000-2004
Table 39

County 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Number Rate* Number Rate* Number Rate* Number Rate* Number Rate*
Barbour 3 21.4 2 12.0 3 18.8 0 0.0 1 5.8
Berkeley 8 7.4 8 7.5 17 15.0 10 8.5 10 7.9
Boone 3 8.1 0 0.0 4 12.1 1 3.0 3 9.5
Braxton 1 6.4 1 7.0 1 6.0 2 13.3 0 0.0
Brooke 2 7.6 3 12.4 0 0.0 1 4.3 4 16.9
Cabell 6 5.0 12 10.1 10 8.6 6 5.2 9 7.9
Calhoun 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 16.7 1 16.7
Clay 1 8.7 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 2 14.9
Doddridge 1 14.5 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Fayette 6 10.5 4 7.1 0 0.0 5 8.3 3 5.4
Gilmer 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 16.4 1 20.4 1 13.9
Grant 4 26.8 2 15.6 1 9.2 1 7.1 0 0.0
Greenbrier 3 7.8 2 5.5 3 7.9 2 5.6 1 2.7
Hampshire 1 4.3 3 14.1 1 4.6 1 3.9 3 13.4
Hancock 2 5.8 2 6.1 2 5.4 5 14.5 4 11.5
Hardy 1 6.7 0 0.0 0 0.0 2 13.6 0 0.0
Harrison 4 5.1 3 3.8 4 5.0 12 15.1 5 5.9
Jackson 5 13.6 1 3.0 2 6.6 1 3.1 5 16.0
Jefferson 2 3.4 5 8.8 6 10.0 3 4.9 6 9.4
Kanawha 18 7.5 17 7.4 20 8.3 15 6.3 14 5.7
Lewis 4 20.8 1 4.8 3 17.1 1 5.0 1 5.8
Lincoln 8 29.4 7 27.9 4 12.4 8 27.2 3 10.2
Logan 3 6.0 7 15.1 3 6.3 4 9.3 4 9.1
McDowell 5 15.8 2 6.9 5 17.2 4 13.4 1 3.2
Marion 4 6.7 2 3.4 7 11.8 4 6.1 5 8.0
Marshall 3 8.2 3 8.2 6 17.3 2 6.0 3 8.4
Mason 3 9.7 0 0.0 1 3.5 2 6.7 1 3.4
Mercer 3 3.8 4 5.5 7 9.4 7 9.5 7 9.8
Mineral 2 6.5 2 6.1 7 24.8 4 14.2 1 3.1
Mingo 2 5.5 5 13.3 7 18.1 1 2.7 1 2.7
Monongalia 2 2.3 1 1.2 4 4.5 9 9.9 3 3.2
Monroe 0 0.0 1 7.0 0 0.0 1 9.0 0 0.0
Morgan 1 6.8 2 13.5 3 19.7 0 0.0 1 6.2
Nicholas 2 7.0 2 7.8 2 7.6 1 3.3 0 0.0
Ohio 6 12.6 6 11.9 6 13.8 2 4.1 5 10.9
Pendleton 1 13.2 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Pleasants 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 15.6 0 0.0 0 0.0
Pocahontas 1 12.5 1 12.8 1 10.6 1 11.4 4 44.0
Preston 4 14.4 5 17.6 4 11.7 2 6.1 3 9.3
Putnam 3 5.1 8 12.6 4 6.8 5 7.4 8 12.0
Raleigh 6 6.8 4 4.6 7 8.2 5 5.6 8 8.9
Randolph 4 12.4 1 3.3 2 6.2 3 9.6 2 6.3
Ritchie 0 0.0 1 8.5 0 0.0 1 7.6 3 24.0
Roane 2 11.6 0 0.0 2 12.1 0 0.0 0 0.0
Summers 1 7.4 1 10.3 2 16.1 1 7.9 1 9.2
Taylor 2 12.6 2 13.5 3 17.8 0 0.0 0 0.0
Tucker 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 14.7 0 0.0
Tyler 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 3 36.6 1 11.1
Upshur 1 4.0 3 10.3 1 3.4 1 3.5 2 7.0
Wayne 3 6.1 2 4.0 6 12.2 2 4.3 5 11.1
Webster 1 9.4 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Wetzel 1 4.9 0 0.0 5 26.6 1 5.1 2 10.5
Wirt 0 0.0 1 23.3 0 0.0 1 15.9 0 0.0
Wood 6 5.8 8 7.9 9 8.8 4 4.0 10 10.1
Wyoming 4 14.7 2 7.1 1 3.3 3 10.5 1 4.0
Total 159 7.6 149 7.3 188 9.1 153 7.3 158 7.6
County Number Rate* Number Rate* Number Rate* Number Rate* Number Rate*
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

* Number of infant deaths per 1,000 live births
This Table extracted from the West Virginia Vital Statistics 2004 Annual Report

Last updated April 13, 2006.

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