Number of maternal deaths by race/ethnicity U.S. 2021

The number of maternal deaths in the U.S. increased across all racial/ethnic groups from 2018 to 2021. In 2021, there were around 503 deaths due to maternal causes among non-Hispanic white women in the United States. This statistic presents the number of maternal deaths in the United States from 2019 to 2020, by race and ethnicity.

Number of maternal deaths in the United States from 2018 to 2021, by race/ethnicity

Characteristic	2018	2019	2020	2021
Non-Hispanic white	291	343	352	503
Non-Hispanic black	206	241	293	362
Hispanic	105	112	158	248

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Release date

March 2023

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United States

Survey time period

2018 to 2021

Supplementary notes

A maternal death is defined by the World Health Organization as, “the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes."

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