El Caribe reports that infant mortality rates in the Dominican Republic have gone down over the last five years, although 38 per 1,000 of all live births will die before five years of age. Overall, 3% die in the first few months of life. Other indicators show that only 13.3% of infants are exclusively breastfed, and 69.8% of the women interviewed use some form of family planning, up 5.1% from 1996.