[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by Laz116

In Denmark it's 4.3 per 1000, in the US it's 6.3.

USA are great at some things and worse at other things. It's as simple as that. No biggie.

Originally Posted by Patricia

This is based on deaths of infants under one year old.

From the Wikipedia article:

Another challenge to comparability is the practice of counting frail or premature infants who die before the normal due date as miscarriages (spontaneous abortions) or those who die during or immediately after childbirth as stillborn. Therefore, the quality of a country's documentation of perinatal mortality can matter greatly to the accuracy of its infant mortality statistics. This point is reinforced by the demographer Ansley Coale, who finds dubiously high ratios of reported stillbirths to infant deaths in Hong Kong and Japan in the first 24 hours after birth, a pattern that is consistent with the high recorded sex ratios at birth in those countries and suggests not only that many female infants who die in the first 24 hours are misreported as stillbirths rather than infant deaths but also that those countries do not follow WHO recommendations for the reporting of live births and infant deaths.[11]

I challenge you to go find the complete statistics for your respective countries. Let's look at them together and see who really has the higher infant mortality rate.