US Only Country To See Increase In Maternal Death Rate Since 1990.

reports that last year the United Nations reported “it would not meet its goal to decrease the number of women who die in childbirth by 75 percent by 2015, a Millennium Development goal.” Rather, “The Guardian reports the maternal mortality rate decreased by 45 percent between 1990 and 2013.” Notably, “the United States is the only country in the world in which maternal deaths increased between 1990 and 2013,” and in 2013 “28 women were dying for every 100,00 births, compared to 12 women for every 100,000 births in 1990.”