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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 ...
In 2011, the United Nations described maternal mortality as a human rights issue at the forefront of American healthcare, as the mortality rates worsened over the years. [75] According to a 2015 WHO report, in the United States the MMR between 1990 and 2013 "more than doubled from an estimated 12 to 28 maternal deaths per 100,000 births."
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 2022 fetal mortality rate among Black mothers remained higher than the national rate in 1990. ... a rate of 5.48 fetal deaths for every 1,000 live births. The year before, the rate was 5.73.
In 2021, the maternal mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black women was 69.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, which is 2.6 times higher than non-Hispanic White women. [85] The mortality rate for women over the age of 40 was 6.8 times higher than the rate for women under the age of 25. [86]
In Ohio, the Black infant mortality rate in 2021 was 164% higher for Blacks than whites, even when controlling for factors such as parental income and education, according to the Ohio Infant ...
Designed to counter the “obstetric racism” that researchers say leads a disproportionate number of African American mothers to die from childbirth, the project has provided 150 pregnant Black ...
Maternal mortality ratio per 100,000 live births. [1] From Our World in Data (using World Health Organization definition): "The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is defined as the number of maternal deaths during a given time period per 100,000 live births during the same time period. It depicts the risk of maternal death relative to the number of ...