Understanding the evidence on maternal mortality and its causes is a key to crafting solutions; this brief describes the ...

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.

The maternal mortality rate in the U.S. went up continuously from 2018 to 2021, and since Covid-19 was particularly dangerous for pregnant people, there was an especially dramatic increase from ...

For the first time in U.S. history, more babies were born to women over 40 than to teenagers, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The milestone comes ...

In 2021, the maternal mortality rate for Black women was 69.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, 2.6 times the rate for white women at 26.6 deaths. Among Hispanic women, the report found there were ...

Maternal mortality fell by almost half in developing countries between 1990 and 2015 (UNICEF) … but doubled in the United States (Gates Foundation). U.S. Maternal harms and deaths by state (USA ...

In collaboration with ARMMAN, a Mumbai-based non-profit focused on maternal and child health, Tambe’s team is deploying cutting-edge machine learning models to tackle maternal mortality.

Racial disparities persist in maternal mortality rates In the US, Black women are at least two and a half more likely to die in pregnancy, childbirth, or immediately postpartum than white women.

India’s latest Maternal Mortality Ratio shows a declining trend The MMR in India fell to 93 per lakh live births in 2019-21 from 97 in 2018-20, with the highest MMR occurring in the 20-29 years ...

Madhya Pradesh continues to grapple with alarming maternal and newborn mortality rates, placing it among the most challenged states in India in terms of public ...

The maternal mortality rate rose to 19 deaths per 100,000 in December 2024, an increase from 18.6 the year before.