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. "We know that Black ...

Black women in the United States continued to face the highest maternal mortality rates, dying at a rate more than three ...

The CDC reports a significant decline in maternal mortality though a slight increase for African American women, and media focus on the latter.

Black women in the U.S. face the highest maternal mortality rates, with D.C. experiencing a severe crisis with 90% of birth-related deaths among Black birthing people.

India has made huge progress in improving maternal mortality rate (MMR) and infant mortality rate (IMR) and is well on track to meet global targets, Union minister of state for health Anupriya Patel s ...

Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher white women around the time of childbirth in 2023.

The rate is the lowest reported since 2018 and represents a significant drop from 2021 when it spiked to 32.9. The United States has one of the highest maternal mortality rates of any developed, ...