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In the states of Pennsylvania, Missouri, and California, the journal article "Black-white disparities in maternal in-hospital mortality according to teaching and black-serving hospital status" discovered that between the years of 1995 to 2000, out of every 100,000 patients in a hospital, 11.5 black women died during pregnancy, and 4.8 white ...
Maternal mortality rates per 100,000 births. 2018-2022: Image title: Map of maternal mortality rates per 100,000 births by US state. 2018-2022. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Width: 100%: Height: 100%
Geographic location has also been found to be a contributing factor to accessing maternal health care. Data has shown that rates of maternal mortality are higher in rural areas of the United States. From 2017-2019, the rate of maternal mortality in rural areas was 26.1 per 100,000 live births as compared to 21.8 in metropolitan areas. [30]
The US maternal mortality rate fell from 32.9 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2021 to 22.3 per 100,000 in 2022, according to the report, published Thursday by the CDC’s National ...
Maternal mortality rates in the United States continue to rise and Black women continue to be most affected, new data shows. Deaths of women during and just after pregnancy have been steadily ...
And while infant mortality has gradually gone down overall over the past decade, the rate is still 164% higher for Black babies in the state than for white babies, according to a report by the ...
Black women have 3.4 times the risk of maternal death from pregnancy complications compared to white women. [74] Black women over 40 years old have the highest risk of pregnancy-related deaths of any group, at 192 deaths per 100,000 live births. [74]
Maternal death rates are on the rise in the U.S., spiking significantly in 2021. ... For Black women, the maternal mortality rate in 2021 was 69.9 deaths per 100,000 live births. This is 2.6 times ...