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U.S. Maternal Mortality: Modeled Data.
How should we read a modeled maternal mortality estimate?
The historical record
Older reporting period2023
Latest observation in this snapshot—not a real-time reading. -3 per 100,000 live births vs 2022.
Fitted vertical axis · missing periods are not interpolated · annual
What the number means
Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.
This is a modeled maternal mortality ratio, not the CDC’s reported-death series. Model uncertainty and differences in definitions limit comparisons; a change in a point estimate is not a complete causal explanation.
Modeled estimate with uncertainty, not the same series as CDC reported maternal deaths.
A better question to ask
Evaluate maternal-health proposals with a clearly defined population, access measures, and source-consistent outcomes.
This is a prompt for investigation, not evidence that a particular policy works. A trend alone cannot establish a cause.
Read the related practical guide ↗Exact observations
24 available observations since 2000. Annual and quarterly dates represent the start of the reporting period; fiscal years are labeled explicitly. Display values are rounded to the precision shown; downloads retain the source values.
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| Reporting period | Period start | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 | 17 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 | 20 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 | 31 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 | 22 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 | 18 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 | 18 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 | 18 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 | 18 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 | 17 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 | 17 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 | 16 |
| 2012 | 2012-01-01 | 16 |
| 2011 | 2011-01-01 | 15 |
| 2010 | 2010-01-01 | 15 |
| 2009 | 2009-01-01 | 15 |
| 2008 | 2008-01-01 | 14 |
| 2007 | 2007-01-01 | 13 |
| 2006 | 2006-01-01 | 13 |
| 2005 | 2005-01-01 | 13 |
| 2004 | 2004-01-01 | 13 |
| 2003 | 2003-01-01 | 13 |
| 2002 | 2002-01-01 | 13 |
| 2001 | 2001-01-01 | 13 |
| 2000 | 2000-01-01 | 12 |
Follow this series home
- Series identifier
- SH.STA.MMRT
- Provider
- World Bank / original statistical sources
- Original source attribution
- Trends in Maternal Mortality, World Health Organization (WHO), uri: https://www.who.int/news/item/23-02-2023-a-woman-dies-every-two-minutes-due-to-pregnancy-or-childbirth--un-agencies; UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), note: Trends in Maternal Mortality; UN Population Fund (UNFPA), note: Trends in Maternal Mortality; World Bank Group (WBG), note: Trends in Maternal Mortality
- Frequency
- Annual
- Source units
- per 100,000 live births
- Displayed units
- per 100,000 live births
- Retrieval time
- 2026-10-04T09:04:46.416Z
- Provider database update
- 2026-07-13 — not the observation date
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