The U.S. maternal mortality rate declined by 16.6% between 2022 and 2023, reaching its lowest level since 2018—18.6 deaths per 100,000 live births—according to a February 2025 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This follows a previous sharp decline between 2021 and 2022 when the rate fell from 32.9 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2021 to 22.3 in 2022.
