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Black maternal mortality in the United States refers to the disproportionately high rate of maternal death among those who identify as Black or African American women. [1] Maternal death is often linked to both direct obstetric complications (such as hemorrhage or eclampsia) and indirect obstetric deaths that exacerbate pre-existing health ...
This article includes a list of U.S. states sorted by birth and death rate, expressed per 1,000 inhabitants, for 2021, using the most recent data available from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.
The United States was included in this group, seeing an increase in the pregnancy-related mortality ratio over the past 3 decades. Looking at the years 1990-2013 from a world-wide perspective, the United States of America was the only country to see an increase in the maternal mortality rate over this time period. [47]
The death rate disproportionately affects communities of color, suggesting potential bias. “In California, Black women make up 5% of pregnant patients, but account for 21% of total pregnancy ...
The 2022 fetal mortality rate among Black mothers remained higher than the national rate in 1990.
Rates of births and deaths were analyzed from 2012 through 2023, using trends from before the restrictions were implemented and from states without restrictions as baseline measures.
From 1787 to 1868, enslaved African Americans were counted in the U.S. census under the Three-fifths Compromise.The compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population.
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