You didn’t see the above, anywhere but BBC Northern Ireland were brutally honest:
We also found out from them, the facts:
- Northern Ireland 4.2 deaths per 1 000 live births
- England 3.9
- Scotland 3.2
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-51725510
For context, the rate in Denmark is 3.04 and in Germany it’s 3.2. In the USA it’s 5.7
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
I notice the Guardian is quoting the figure of 3.9 as being “across the UK”. Is this correct -it is the same as the England figure (though that is possibly because of the population dominance of England). Even so it seems slightly disingenuous to just quote a UK wide figure when the article has mention of England/Scotland/Ireland in other contexts.
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There is certainly no need for any media outlet to lump together stats from this Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health research into an ‘across the UK’ figure. The Royal College, commendably, has published separate, comprehensive reports for each of the four countries: it has also produced tables that directly compare side-by-side the respective performance stats for each country on each of the chosen metrics. Given the structure of health and social care governance and operation across the UK, this is of course welcome and wholly appropriate.
The report shows there to be many ‘good’ results for Scotland relative to the other three countries but – as might be expected when looking at a broad, diverse ‘scorecard’ – the picture in Scotland is not all as positive as we might wish it to be!
https://stateofchildhealth.rcpch.ac.uk/evidence/nations/scotland/
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Sadly, STV did not look away but devoted half of its late night programme to damning comments about how the Scottish Government is failing children and young people, with the low mortality rates achieving a 30 second snippet towards the end.
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