The United States has 32.9 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. (The next closest, by comparison, is the United Kingdom with 10.9 per 100,000 births.)2 The data for Black women is 69.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, making them nearly three times more likely to die than white women during pregnancy or within a year of the end of the pregnancy.3 Black women are also far more likely to suffer miscarriage, stillbirth, and other complications.
