Death from congenital anomaly (CA) in the first year of life (infant deaths), comparing EUROCAT data with that reported by WHO per country for selected years 2005–2009*
| WHO | EUROCAT | |||||||||
| Country | Years where WHO data are available | All infant deaths (n) | Deaths <1 year due to CA per 1000 live births | Infant deaths due to CA (%) | Country covered by EUROCAT (%) | Data source for infant deaths† | Liveborn CA cases registered (n) | Infant deaths with CA (n) | Deaths of infants with CA per 1000 live births‡ | |
| Austria, Styria | 2005–2009 | 1464 | 1.01 | 27 | 13 | (B) | 1323 | 41 | 0.81 | |
| Belgium, Antwerp and Hainaut | 2005–2006 | 964 | 0.98 | 24 | 27 | (D)(E) | 1217 | 55 | 0.87 | |
| Croatia, Zagreb | 2005–2009 | 1121 | 1.80 | 34 | 16 | (B) | 641 | 42 | 1.26 | |
| Denmark, Odense | 2005–2006 | 506 | 1.09 | 28 | 8 | (B) | 290 | 11 | 1.06 | |
| Finland | 2005–2009 | 825 | 0.92 | 33 | 100 | (A) | 12 890 | 353 | 1.19 | |
| France - Ile de la Reunion* | 2005–2006 | 331 | 1.23 | 17 | 100 | (C) | 570 | 39 | 0.84 | |
| Germany, Mainz and Saxony-Anhalt | 2005–2009 | 12 679 | 0.96 | 26 | 3 | (A)(B) | 3014 | 49 | 0.47 | |
| Hungary* | 2008–2009 | 1048 | 1.38 | 25 | 100 | (D) | 6209 | 172 | 0.89 | |
| Ireland, Cork and Kerry, Dublin and South East Ireland | 2005–2009 | 1245 | 1.63 | 42 | 62 | (A)(A)(B) | 4166 | 412 | 2.05 | |
| Italy, Tuscany and Emilia Romagna | 2006–2008 | 5987 | 0.93 | 26 | 13 | (A) (C) | 4051 | 58 | 0.27 | |
| Malta | 2005–2009 | 118 | 2.56 | 43 | 100 | (A) | 529 | 60 | 3.02 | |
| Netherlands, North | 2005–2009 | 3893 | 1.26 | 30 | 10 | (B) | 2014 | 106 | 1.21 | |
| Poland, Wielkopolska | 2005–2009 | 11 564 | 1.93 | 32 | 10 | (D) | 4777 | 138 | 0.73 | |
| Portugal, South | 2007–2009 | 1065 | 0.81 | 23 | 21 | (D) | 545 | 7 | 0.11 | |
| Spain-Basque Country | 2005–2009 | 8523 | 0.93 | 26 | 4 | (B) | 1463 | 84 | 0.80 | |
| Sweden | 2005–2009 | 1366 | 0.77 | 30 | 100 | (A) | 8492 | 331 | 0.63 | |
| Switzerland, Vaud | 2005–2007 | 926 | 1.31 | 31 | 10 | (B) | 650 | 20 | 0.90 | |
| Ukraine | 2005–2006 2008–2009 | 18 542 | 2.59 | 31 | 6 | (A) | 2383 | 374 | 2.75 | |
| UK, Wales, N England, EMSYCAR, Wessex, Thames Valley, SW England | 2005–2009 | 18 571 | 1.15 | 23 | 32 | (A)(B)(D)(D)(D)(D) | 24 539 | 1141 | 0.95 | |
*Data are given for both WHO and EUROCAT for the years for which WHO data are available; WHO data are national data, EUROCAT data are for the areas covered by EUROCAT registries. In Hungary WHO data were available for 2005–2009 but EUROCAT data only available 2008–2009. EUROCAT infant mortality data for France were available only for Ile de la Reunion and WHO publishes mortality data for Ile de Reunion separately from the rest of France.
†Data source for EUROCAT registries: A=systematic access to death certificates +/− other sources; B=systematic access to hospital notes up to at least 1 year but not death certificates; C=systematic access to hospital notes up to 1 week or discharge; D=no systematic data source; E=not known. Where there is more than one registry per country, the codes given are in the same order as the registries appear in column 1.
‡The EUROCAT rate (deaths of infants with congenital anomaly) would be expected to be higher than the rate of deaths due to congenital anomaly (WHO) as a small number of infants who were diagnosed as having a congenital anomaly will die of other causes.