Year per 1,000 live births 1990 6.98715686333221 1991 6.7044216441854845 1992 6.383524630722143 1993 6.044514539462926 1994 5.680399562830835 1995 5.356994319174418 1996 5.059599399822732 1997 4.83513786230232 1998 4.598834795477297 1999 4.4098551565357615 2000 4.257309308486744 2001 4.05451430500816 2002 3.92489381112957 2003 3.811577120027665 2004 3.64477936818568 2005 3.5273446784075655 2006 3.4090267455222074 2007 3.301117346253872 2008 3.20964637742903 2009 3.1610090294988207 2010 3.077400198931083 2011 3.0233016647603037 2012 2.967665261503689 2013 2.9291073589265775 2014 2.9025922486522004 2015 2.8857513725677437 2016 2.8813075507852033 2017 2.877428861326252 2018 2.820312400084371 2019 2.800550402381547 2020 2.7731535056042618 2021 2.712811854127002 2022 2.676937124510849