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This data visualization presents national-level provisional maternal mortality rates based on a current flow of mortality and natality data in the National Vital Statistics System.
The 2023 Health of Women and Children Report finds that: • Mortality rates, including maternal mortality, continued to increase among women of reproductive age and children, while the infant mortality rate declined. All mortality measures had wide disparities by race/ethnicity and geography. • Women’s mental and behavioral health
The rate at which women in the U.S. are dying from pregnancy related causes more than doubled in recent decades. A new study, published in JAMA shows Black women and Native Americans are most at...
The 2023 March of Dimes Report Card highlights key indicators to describe the current state of maternal and infant health. We continue to provide updated rates and grades for preterm birth and data on infant mortality and maternal health.
From August 2022 to January 2023, 12-month ending sums of maternal deaths declined 28.2% from 1069 to 768 deaths. Meanwhile, monthly maternal deaths were stable, beginning at 63 deaths and ending at 62 deaths (mean [SD] monthly deaths, 65.2 [5.1] monthly deaths).
The maternal mortality rate for 2021 was 32.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, compared with a rate of 23.8 in 2020 and 20.1 in 2019 (Table).
22.3 deaths per 100,000 live births, compared with a rate of 32.9 in 2021 (Figure 1 and Table). In 2022, maternal mortality rates decreased significantly for Black non-Hispanic (subsequently, Black), White non-Hispanic (subsequently, White), and Hispanic women (Figure 2 and Table).
The number of people living in the United States who died during or shortly after childbirth has increased within the past 20 years, according to research published in JAMA. Researchers reviewed the number of pregnancy-related deaths in each state between 1999-2019.
The United States continues to have the highest rate of maternal deaths of any high-income nation, despite a decline since the COVID-19 pandemic. And within the U.S., the rate is by far the highest for Black women. Most of these deaths — over 80 percent — are likely preventable. 1
Those 1,200-plus maternal deaths translate to a maternal mortality rate of 32.9 deaths per 100,000 live births for 2021, compared with 23.8 in 2020 and 20.1 in 2019, according to Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, MD, chair of the AMA Board of Trustees.