Black women have the highest rate of pregnancy-associated mortality

Deaths per 100,000 live births for women ages 10–44 years in 2018 and 2019

Bar chart showing 12.5 Black women died per 100,000 live births; 3.5 women of another race/ethnicity died per 100,000 live births; 2.1 White women died per 100,000 live births; and 1.5 Latinas died per 100,000 live births.

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Source: Analysis by Wallace et al. of Centers for Disease Control mortality data
Chart: Aaron Mendelson / The TraceThe 19th・19thnews.org