In 1998, US federal agencies developed national health objectives – the Healthy People 2010 goals. These set a target of reducing maternal deaths to 4.3 per 100,000 live births by 2010.
Five states in America have currently met those goals. Hats off to Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Vermont!
However, in some areas ratios are significantly--staggeringly--higher: in Georgia it is 20.5; in Washington, DC, it is 34.9.
In New York City, the ratio for black women is 83.6 per 100,000 live births.
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