Sure but Paris at 3.8 is twice that of San Francisco at 1.7 so SF is so much better and that’s with the stricter definition of counting deaths after 20 weeks as infants instead of excluding all younger than 22 weeks gestation like France does. It’s why I live here and had my child here.

https://www.insee.fr/en/statistiques/serie/001745304

https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/294/infant-mortality/table#fm...