Share of pregnancy-associated deaths due to pregnancy U.S. 2017-2019, by ethnicity
From 2017 to 2019, an overwhelming large proportion of pregnancy-associated deaths was among non-Hispanic Black women. That is nearly one in three pregnancy-related death was that of a non-Hispanic Black woman. This statistic shows the proportion of pregnancy-associated deaths in 36 U.S. states that were determined to be pregnancy-related from 2017 to 2019, by ethnicity.