Year per 1,000 live births 1990 26.96060414818858 1991 26.212252224660986 1992 25.496775126782616 1993 24.80939964645091 1994 24.25233944954129 1995 23.718881083368597 1996 23.2524722536615 1997 22.823374334993733 1998 22.48522333282595 1999 22.110868796416362 2000 21.8234824602589 2001 21.514383527412665 2002 21.391715133137808 2003 21.133581156655048 2004 21.035388437586835 2005 20.984956558523965 2006 20.846818327459147 2007 20.688905130364326 2008 20.39133042615828 2009 20.212325486758903 2010 19.637242452536572 2011 19.213126887048077 2012 18.82176982710884 2013 18.49321870701513 2014 18.218594104308387 2015 18.05542644524757 2016 17.97243153044197 2017 17.958815823945507 2018 17.98110757243128 2019 18.040276359360007 2020 17.872362534948742 2021 17.69044005834342 2022 17.44126094028348