Year per 1,000 live births 1990 8.821890048371497 1991 8.44292259619035 1992 8.061471605801296 1993 7.708481683277509 1994 7.360238666341062 1995 6.920700893088893 1996 6.515369641226935 1997 6.185048942380527 1998 5.861155047752223 1999 5.564005002408947 2000 5.29707862020441 2001 5.033903294888311 2002 4.874861941325178 2003 4.725175458216323 2004 4.528634018773164 2005 4.379761456161485 2006 4.187110766006467 2007 4.015225490901244 2008 3.8666071148965786 2009 3.76077952900525 2010 3.6151910112065897 2011 3.488615274595695 2012 3.3953698798994645 2013 3.3146013321027645 2014 3.2533235049612426 2015 3.193964310413674 2016 3.1527191504994008 2017 3.1153306896196518 2018 3.023521350388575 2019 2.9813371720504755 2020 2.929492995378055 2021 2.8701234571573693 2022 2.846889491628759