I can tell you is that Israel has one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the world.

4.22/1000 live births and under the age of one year. This is due to education, cultural norms in infant care and the health care system. SIDS rates in Israel are sketchy and since 1993, the numbers are hard to attain. Partially, this is due to an avoidance in Israel to perform autopsies. (Autopsies rule out other causes) So, the rates of SIDS we can measure are inside the statistics for Infant Mortality Rates (IMR).

The IMR have decreased from 6.75 in 2007 to 4.22 in 2009. A drop of 37.99% - this is significant! We can infer that the number of SIDS cases in Israel has decreased significantly, as the awareness/prevention efforts have increased.

I personally prefer attachment parenting, I think that many parents are returning to this, as well. Placing babies to sleep on their backs is the recommended position by the Israeli Pediatric Association. But a return to attachment parenting cannot and should not be disregarded in the decrease in the IMR.

The United States IMR is: 6.26/1000 live births.

Now- what do you think the large discrepancy in numbers is due to?