The following (extracted from forthcoming book Community and Communications) contrasts infant mortality rates in the Palestinian Territories to Israel.

The cold maths suggests an excess of 1,400 Palestinian infant deaths of those aged under 12 months compared with their Israeli counterparts.

Palestinian Territories
 
Fertility Rate
Birth
Rate
Infant
Mortality
1975
 
 
77.1
1980
 
 
59.0
1990
6.7
45.0 (+38.0)
36.0
2000
5.4
41.0 (+36.0)
25.0
2010
4.4
32.4 (+29.1)
19.5
2015
4.1
32.1
17.1
2016
 
 
16.6

Israel A = Arab, I = Israeli,
1970I
3.8
 
18.0
1972I
3.8
27.0 (+20.0)
 
1980I
3.2
24.0 (+17.0)
15.3
1984A
 
34.5 (+30.5)
22.0
1990I
2.8
22.0 (+15.1)
9.7
1994A
 
37.9 (+34.9)
 
1997A
 
 
24.4
1999A
5.9
 
 
2000I
3.0
22.0 (+15.4)
5.4
2004A
 
39.6 (+34.8)
 
2009A
5.6
36.9
24.0
2010I
3.0
22.0 (+17.0)
3.7
2014I
3.1
21.5 (+16.0)
3.1
2015I
3.1
21.3
3.0
2016I
 
 
2.9
Israel

The calculation of infant death.
Excess infant mortality of Palestinian Territories (ca. 15/1000 births now) x birth rate per thousand (ca 32 per thousand dpopulation now) = 450 excess infant deaths
per million, x 4 million population = 1,400 excess infant deaths per annum.

The gap was wider in the past, according to the data. But still exists.

Excess infant mortality of Palestinian Territories (ca. 40/1000 births 1980) x birth rate per thousand (ca 45 per thousand population 1980) = 2,000 excess infant deaths
per million, x 1.5 million population = 3,000 excess infant deaths per annum.



Dr Hillary J. Shaw
Director and Senior Research Consultant
Shaw Food Solutions
Newport
Shropshire
TF10 8QE
www.fooddeserts.org