Overall Increase: Maternal mortality in the U.S. has doubled since 2014, with rates surpassing 32 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2025. This places the U.S. at the bottom among high-income ...

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.

Anil Oza is STAT’s 2024-2025 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow. You can reach Anil on Signal at aniloza.16. As part of the sweeping layoffs that rocked the Department of Health and Human ...

For instance, before the COVID-19 pandemic, maternal mortality for non-Hispanic Black women was 20.7 per 100,000 live births compared with 5.0 for non-Hispanic White women.

That’s up from 669 deaths in 2023, but down from 2022 and 2021, when it was the highest level in more than 50 years.The maternal mortality rate rose to 19 deaths per 100,000 live births, up from ...