Year per 1,000 live births 1990 8.013923197489603 1991 7.66926408288272 1992 7.295198985172933 1993 6.88603727404928 1994 6.424649007045369 1995 6.051512787044363 1996 5.673592527477629 1997 5.372575462748577 1998 5.147736507164199 1999 4.93418920812645 2000 4.735003887766601 2001 4.535752947898501 2002 4.362019903016612 2003 4.223176070380251 2004 4.03130105249232 2005 3.902685922127566 2006 3.7969021205018545 2007 3.6751875517418005 2008 3.5710883489715464 2009 3.462365787451335 2010 3.4112992970162925 2011 3.3208019320416926 2012 3.2667857112112526 2013 3.2173497688377273 2014 3.1934410017178614 2015 3.197149576675561 2016 3.1861835350954975 2017 3.1335573169827238 2018 3.111054895893681 2019 3.0865158703401607 2020 3.019247434773238 2021 2.981013283902821 2022 2.9193105263088386