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The US has the "highest rate of maternal mortality in the industrialized world." [82] In the United States, the maternal death rate averaged 9.1 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births during the years 1979–1986, [83] but then rose rapidly to 14 per 100,000 in 2000 and 17.8 per 100,000 in 2009. [84]
The 2021 maternal mortality rate for Black women was nearly three times higher than it was for white women. Deaths of pregnant women in the U.S. fell in 2022, dropping significantly from a six ...
The US maternal mortality rate fell from 32.9 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2021 to 22.3 per 100,000 in 2022, according to the report, published Thursday by the CDC’s National ...
Own work from Maternal deaths and mortality rates by state, 2018-2022 and 2018-2021 (previous map). Listed at Data Files and Resources. National Vital Statistics System (NVSS). National Center for Health Statistics. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Using the methodology from the National Vital Statistics System, the maternal death rate increased from about 9.7 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1999 to 2002 to 23.6 deaths per 100,000 live ...
It depicts the risk of maternal death relative to the number of live births and essentially captures the risk of death in a single pregnancy or a single live birth. Maternal deaths: The annual number of female deaths from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management (excluding accidental or incidental causes) during ...
“The U.S. is facing an ongoing maternal and infant health crisis and in 2020 we are still among the most dangerous developed nations for a woman to give birth,” says Stacey Stewart, president ...
The adult lifetime risk of maternal mortality can be derived using either the maternal mortality ratio (MMR), or the maternal mortality rate (MMRate). [ 37 ] Proportion of maternal deaths among deaths of women of reproductive age (PM) is the number of maternal deaths in a given time period divided by the total deaths among women aged 15–49 years.