That means the US maternal death rate for 2021 – the year for which the most recent data is available – was 32.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, compared with rates of 20.1 in 2019 and 23.8 in ...

Researchers estimated maternal mortality rates — which includes the death of women occurring up to one year after the end of pregnancy per 100,000 live births — from 1999 to 2019.

Related: Birth rate last 5 years In 2019, Texas recorded 377,710 live births, with a birth rate of 62.5 per 1,000 women aged 15-44, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.

About 32.9 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births were reported in 2021, compared with 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2020 and 20.1 in 2019.

Maternal mortality rates in the U.S. progressively worsened from 1999 to 2019, a new study finds, and Black populations face the greatest risk.

The overall rate of pregnancy-related deaths dropped from 18.1 per 100,000 live births in 2013 — the last year for which comparable data is available — to 16.7 per 100,000 live births in 2019.

Michigan had more deaths than live births for the fourth consecutive year.