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Infant Mortality Rate per 1,000 during 2001-2003

Rank* County All White African-American and Other
1 Greenville County 5.7 4.4 10.0
2 Oconee County 5.9 6.1 4.4
3 Edgefield County 6.2 2.2 11.5
4 Beaufort County 6.3 3.9 12.8
5 Pickens County 6.5 6.0 11.3
6 Hampton County 6.8 2.8 9.3
7 Lexington County 6.9 5.3 13.2
8 Kershaw County 7.7 8.2 6.5
9 Spartanburg County 7.8 6.9 10.5
10 Richland County 7.9 2.7 12.1
11 Chesterfield County 8.0 6.3 10.5
12 Dillon County 8.1 0.0 14.5
13 Dorchester County 8.1 6.2 13.0
14 Lancaster County 8.1 6.0 13.1
15 York County 8.2 5.6 16.1
16 Berkeley County 8.4 7.3 11.1
17 Anderson County 8.5 5.5 19.3
18 Orangeburg County 8.8 4.4 10.7
19 Horry County 9.0 5.2 21.9
20 Greenwood County 9.2 4.2 18.0
21 Union County 9.4 10.2 8.0
22 Sumter County 9.5 7.2 11.7
23 Jasper County 9.6 11.2 8.1
24 Saluda County 9.8 2.0 28.8
25 Fairfield County 9.9 0.0 14.5
26 Aiken County 10.2 8.6 13.8
27 Charleston County 10.3 6.0 16.5
28 Clarendon County 10.3 4.1 14.2
29 Chester County 10.7 8.8 12.8
30 Georgetown County 10.7 5.7 16.6
31 Laurens County 10.8 8.7 15.7
32 Florence County 11.0 5.6 17.1
33 Marlboro County 11.0 2.4 16.2
34 Allendale County 11.4 0.0 13.7
35 Calhoun County 11.7 11.4 11.9
36 Colleton County 12.4 7.2 18.1
37 Newberry County 12.4 8.8 18.3
38 McCormick County 12.7 0.0 19.5
39 Barnwell County 12.8 4.3 20.0
40 Darlington County 13.1 10.4 15.9
41 Cherokee County 15.1 14.0 18.2
42 Lee County 15.1 0.0 20.5
43 Marion County 15.2 12.2 16.8
44 Bamberg County 15.5 5.2 20.5
45 Abbeville County 17.6 7.5 33.7
46 Williamsburg County 18.5 5.6 22.6
- South Carolina 8.8 5.8 14.3

* 1 is best, 46 is worst.

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