Recent Increases in the U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate

This web portal from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Maternal Health Atlas provides fact sheets on the status of maternal health and factors that contribute to maternal deaths. Users can interact with data on the country and regional level or download the population profile for each available country or region. Each fact sheet provides an overview of population statistics for each place, an evaluation of the country or region’s progress based on…

This data portal from Surgo Ventures provides a comprehensive tool using 2021 date to examine the range of factors that influence adverse pregnancy outcomes in the United States, where the maternal mortality rate remains the highest of any industrialized country in the world. The U.S. Maternal Vulnerability Index (MVI) is the first county-level, national-scale tool to rank vulnerability to poor maternal health outcomes and identify the regions and factors impacting susceptibility to these outcomes for…

This report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights highlights the extreme racial disparity in maternal mortality in the United States, underscoring the impact of the social determinants of health, bias in healthcare, and the federal government's role in addressing these issues. Black women in the U.S. are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women, and Native American and Alaska Native women are more than two times as…