Thank you for the article. Definitely interesting context, though I’m left with one question: if phased in introduction of the checkbox was essentially completed in 2017, what explains the continued sharp uptick in deaths from 2017 to 2022? Am I misreading somehow?
Another pertinent question is whether maternal mortality is recorded differently in the US vs the rest of the world? Even before the change in recording it was higher than western countries (and Russia). That is the real yard stick.
The big jump is Bush 2. But our mortality has been going backwards, and unlike Europe, the poor die a good decade sooner than the rich, it's more like a year there.
Thanks be unto our GQP senate and SCOTUS, especially Amy and her Catholic brothers on the bench. Your pope is so proud of you. May you rot in your own hell.
This includes late maternal deaths that occur up to 1 year after the end of pregnancy. Due to limited reporting, figures are lower than the true number of maternal deaths.
Chart with data from:
United States, Russia, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, 2/
All show a sharp drop from 1969 flattening out around 1990, similarly repeated in the US from the middle of the 1980s, but a rise from 2005 and a sharper rise from 2019. There’s an uptick in Russia 2005 to 2010, but then they fall back down to their former trend.
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now they're fixing that mistake
This is the OCR text:
Reported maternal mortality rate
Our World in Data
Reported annual death rate from maternal conditions per 100,000 women and girls, based on official
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This includes late maternal deaths that occur up to 1 year after the end of pregnancy. Due to limited reporting, figures are lower than the true number of maternal deaths.
Chart with data from:
United States, Russia, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, 2/
All show a sharp drop from 1969 flattening out around 1990, similarly repeated in the US from the middle of the 1980s, but a rise from 2005 and a sharper rise from 2019. There’s an uptick in Russia 2005 to 2010, but then they fall back down to their former trend.
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Data source: WHO Mortality Database (2024)
Note: To allow for comparisons between countries and over time, this metric is age-standardized.
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