Year per 1,000 live births 1990 8.982275548074112 1991 8.598444863218397 1992 8.147481540699195 1993 7.659773483366803 1994 7.170548427703731 1995 6.721905230972031 1996 6.283949661515136 1997 5.954811560749778 1998 5.654358773190929 1999 5.408081535887635 2000 5.189075595331636 2001 4.971668107256074 2002 4.793080862933441 2003 4.612446629932392 2004 4.426008056478626 2005 4.292898245311087 2006 4.137202051509113 2007 4.041474014150354 2008 3.914597361115699 2009 3.801971177498724 2010 3.6915246219605318 2011 3.6288181183097277 2012 3.571963213840553 2013 3.508184126198705 2014 3.4664778575351303 2015 3.4666206644519493 2016 3.4437358323311664 2017 3.4063265227262955 2018 3.3804120349558757 2019 3.33784734535701 2020 3.260799649908446 2021 3.223230260774635 2022 3.16708942007108