What percentage of women in the U.S. die from complications during birth?
Maternal mortality in the United States
In the 1950s, the maternal mortality rate in the United Kingdom and the United States was the same—1 in 1000 pregnant and new mothers died. By 2018, the rate in the UK was three times lower than in the United States,[32] due to implementing a standardized protocol.[25] In 2010, Amnesty International published a 154-page report on maternal mortality in the United States.[18] In 2011, the United Nations described maternal mortality as a human rights issue at the forefront of American healthcare, as the mortality rates worsened over the years.[33] According to a 2015 WHO report, in the United States the MMR between 1990 and 2013 "more than doubled from an estimated 12 to 28 maternal deaths per 100,000 births."[34] By 2015, the United States had a higher MMR than the "Islamic Republic of Iran, Libya and Turkey".[26][35] In the 2017 NPR and ProPublica series "Lost Mothers: Maternal Mortality in the U.S." based on a six-month long collaborative investigation, they reported that the United States has the highest rate of maternal mortality than any other developed country, and it is the only country where mortality rate has been rising.[36] The maternal mortality rate in the United States is three times higher than that in neighboring Canada[25] and six times higher than in Scandinavia.[37]