The assumption here being that a live birth is as likely in France as it is in the US. What we should be looking for is percentage of survival for infants born sub 25ish weeks or something like that (I don't have that data).

UPDATE: And as we see from this paper from the WHO, live birth in the US is not what it means in France, for example. In the US it's any sign of life, in France and Belgium it's living for some period of time: "it has also been common practice in several countries (e.g. Belgium, France, Spain) to register as live births only those infants who survived for a specified period beyond birth"

http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/6/07-043471/en/

Those statistics aren't exactly Apples to Apples between countries. There are just too many ways countries can cheat.

For instance, some countries (like France) ignore births before x weeks whereas most countries (including the U.S.) include all births.

Beyond that, the U.S. leads the world in premature birth survival despite also leading the world in assisting people with fertility problems to become pregnant and add to the statistics that on the surface seem problematic for the U.S.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db23.htm