Consider the following statements : 1. Infant mortality rate takes into account the death of infants within a month after birth. 2. Infant mortality rate is the number of infant deaths in a particular year per 100 live births during that year. Which of the above statements is/are correct ?

Both statements are incorrect. Statement 1 is misleading: deaths within the first month (0–27 or 0–28 days) are classified as neonatal deaths, whereas infant mortality refers to deaths occurring before the first birthday (under one year), so infant mortality includes but is not limited to deaths within a month of birth [1]. Statement 2 is also wrong in its scale: the infant mortality rate is conventionally expressed as the number of infant deaths per 1,000 live births in a given period (usually a year), not per 100 live births [2]. Therefore neither statement correctly defines the infant mortality rate.

Sources

1. [1] https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/factsheets/infant-mortality
2. [2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/infant-mortality-dashboard.htm