Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) denotes number of kids dying in first year of their lives per 1000 alive kids in a year. In USA, the IMR is roughly 7/1000 kids, whereas it was 3.1 in HongKong in 1999. In January,07 The Tribune (published from Chandihgarh, India) reports that IMR has come down to 42/1000 alive kids in the state of Haryana.