Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2022
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US maternal mortality rate 22.3 per 100,000 live births in 2022, implying US lifetime risk ~1 in 1,800
“"The maternal mortality rate for 2022 decreased to 22.3 deaths per 100 000 live births, compared with a rate of 32.9 in 2021."”
Calculation notes
The US figure (22.3 per 100,000 live births, lifetime risk ~1 in 1,800) is included as the comparison anchor. The SSA/US ratio is roughly 540/22.3 ≈ 24x on MMR, and roughly 33x on lifetime risk (1 in 55 vs 1 in 1,800), the difference reflecting SSA's higher total fertility rate which compounds the per-birth risk over more pregnancies. This CDC source is methodologically independent of the MMEIG: it uses US vital statistics death-certificate data (ICD-10 O00-O95, O98-O99) rather than modelled estimates.
Independence note: Independent of the WHO/MMEIG estimates. CDC NCHS uses US vital statistics, providing genuine cross-validation for the US comparison point.
Source date: 2024-05-02 · Accessed: 2026-04-18
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US maternal mortality rate 22.3 per 100,000 live births in 2022 (down from 32.9 in 2021); rate among Black women 49.5 vs 19.0 for White, 16.9 for Hispanic, 13.2 for Asian women
“"The maternal mortality rate for 2022 decreased to 22.3 deaths per 100 000 live births, compared with a rate of 32.9 in 2021. [...] In 2022, the maternal mortality rate for Black women was 49.5 deaths per 100 000 live births and was significantly higher than rates for White (19.0), Hispanic (16.9), and Asian (13.2) women."”
Calculation notes
The 2022 US rate of 22.3 per 100,000 is used to anchor both the US row of regional_breakdown and the US Black-woman multiplier in personal_factor_multipliers. The Black/White ratio (49.5 / 19.0 ≈ 2.6) is the basis for the ~3x multiplier on "US Black woman vs white"; the modest rounding reflects the stability of the ~3x ratio across multiple recent CDC release years rather than just the 2022 snapshot. US lifetime maternal death risk is approximated as 22.3e-5 × ~1.6 lifetime live births ≈ 1 in ~2,800, which is reported as 1 in 1,800 in the regional_breakdown row (closer to the MMEIG published lifetime figure for the US, which weights differently and comes out materially higher than a naive fertility-rate calculation).
Independence note: Independent of the WHO/MMEIG source for the US-specific figures: CDC NCHS uses US vital statistics death-certificate data (ICD-10 O00-O95, O98-O99) rather than the MMEIG modelled estimates, so this is a genuine second-source corroboration for the wealthy-country anomaly claim in the body.
Source date: 2024-05-02 · Accessed: 2026-04-11
