What relationship do these figures, states and provinces or territories with high mortality rates, appear to have to the urban/rural population ratio?
And your answer is?
These figures appear to have a relationship in which the infant mortality rate affects the urban/rural population, lessening its amount.
Your answer makes no sense. Which has the higher infant mortality rate? Urban or rural populations???
Do you understand the meanings of these words?
Yes, I do.
The question is asking what type of relationship do the figures, which is a list of state and provinces or territories with high mortality rates, appear to have with an ratio of urban and rural populations. I believe the answer to be what I have written, in which states that infant morality rate affects urban/rural population, causing it lessen in amount, and number.
Am I correct?
No.
Is the infant mortality rate higher in urban areas? Or is it higher in rural areas?
infant mortality -- death of infants -- generally under the age of 12 months
urban area -- city
rural area -- not city; farmland; country
More infants die in the country than they do in the city.
Infant mortality is usually greater in rural areas.