Maternal mortality rates by race/ethnicity U.S. 2021

In 2021, non-Hispanic black women had the highest rates of maternal mortality at 70 deaths per 100,000 live births. The total maternal mortality rate in the U.S. increased from 17.4 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2018 to 33 in 2021. This statistic presents the maternal mortality rates in the United States from 2018 to 2021, by race and ethnicity.

Maternal mortality rates in the United States from 2018 to 2021, by race/ethnicity (per 100,000 live births)

Characteristic	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total	17.4	20.1	23.8	32.9
Non-Hispanic white	14.9	17.9	19.1	26.6
Non-Hispanic black	37.3	44	55.3	69.9
Hispanic	11.8	12.6	18.2	28

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Release date

March 2023

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2018 to 2021

Supplementary notes

Maternal mortality rates are number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.
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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