Maternal deaths have dropped in the U.S. with the exception of Black mothers, according to data released this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A report from the ...

“India has better progress if one compares it with the overall global progress made in maternal and infant mortality rate — MMR and IMR. If one looks at the global numbers, while the global ...

Black women in the United States continue to face the highest maternal mortality rates, with the latest federal data showing little progress in closing racial disparities despite an overall decline in ...

However, the new CDC data indicate that between 2022 and 2023, the U.S. maternal mortality rate fell, from 22.3 per 100,000 live births to 18.6 — a decline of nearly 17 percent. This is the ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher white women around the time of childbirth in 2023, as maternal mortality fell below prepandemic levels overall but ...

The U.S. maternal mortality rate decreased to 18.6 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2023, down from 22.3 in 2022, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While the ...

Despite maternal mortality falling below pre-pandemic levels in the US, Black women experienced a disproportionately higher death rate in 2023, dying at nearly 3.5 times the rate of white women around ...

Tiruchi district has recorded a significant reduction in the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) largely due to the concerted effort by health authorities to track and monitor the condition of health ...