As infant mortality rises in France, an Insee note, published Thorsday, on April 10, sheds light on an alarming trend: one in 250 children in 2024 died before his first birthday, equating 4.1 deaths for 1000 births. The relationship gave its title to a recent journalistic investigation, 4.1. Le Scandale des Access and France (“The birth scandal in France”). The two authors, Anthony Cortes and Sébastien Leurquin questioned this increase, attributing it mainly to the closure of small maternity rooms, a hypothesis that is not universally accepted.
What teaches us in Vise? “A quarter of these deaths occur on the day of birth, half of 1 and 27 days of life, and a quarter in the post-neonatal period, which occurs from 28 days to less than 1 year,” said the publication, based on civil status data. Between 2011, the year in which the increase, with the rate of 3.5 ‰ and 2024, the increase in mortality was observed only in the first 27 days of the child’s life. Mortality on the day of birth, as well as between 28 days and 1 year, remained stable during the period.
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