Every wealthy country made birth safer. Around 1990, the United States turned around.

23.8
United States, 2020
8.4
the worst of ten
peer nations
1915 2020
Same century. Same medicine. One country reversed.
Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. NCHS (Hoyert 2007), Our World in Data long-run compilation, OECD Health Statistics. Peer nations: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom — 8.4 is Canada, the highest of the ten at its latest reading. · Labora Rounds