The maternal mortality rate for Black women was 50.3 deaths per 100,000 live births, compared to 14.5 deaths for White women, 12.4 for Hispanic women and 10.7 for Asian women. 4.

Maternal deaths spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, bumping the nation’s maternal mortality rate up to 33.8 deaths per 100,000 live first in June of 2022, according to the data.

Maternal mortality rates have dropped 17% since Roe v. Wade was overturned, but the U.S. still has high rates, indicating ongoing health care challenges.

Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher white women around the time of childbirth in 2023. That's according to federal health data released Wednesday.

Maternal mortality issue long clouded by conflicting data, ... Various sources estimate that the rate of maternal mortality per 100,000 live births in 2020 was 23.8 ...

Black women saw their maternal mortality rate increase from 49.5 deaths per 100,000 live births to 50.3 over one year, while every other racial group experienced declines.

The maternal mortality rate jumped from 17.4 per 100,000 in 2018 to 32.9 per 100,000 in 2021, Kawakita noted, and 20% to 40% of maternal deaths are preventable. Of note, the U.S. lags behind other ...

Philadelphia maternal death rate remains high, but efforts to help are underway 02:06. Thursday is Maternal Health Awareness Day, and the United States has higher rates of maternal death than any ...

In their Oct. 21 letter to state surgeon general Dr. Diana Ramos, the advocacy groups said that the maternal health blueprint acknowledged racial inequities in maternal mortality rates, but didn ...

Infant mortality rate In 2021, Hawaii’s infant mortality rate was 4.7 deaths per 1,000 live births , reflecting a decline of over 11% since 2011. Maternal mortality rate ...

N.Y.'s maternal mortality rate a focus for lawmakers NY officials tout world-class hospitals and medical facilities that operate across the state but ranked behind two dozen other states in ...