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Why don't these types of article ever show a graph?

EDIT: And their "recent" data point is 2021... Of course health outcomes would be worse in that year for various reasons.



Some useful graphs here:

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...

Black women in the US are almost 10 times as likely to die during/after childbirth, compared to all women in the UK (and white women in the US are almost 4 times as likely to die as in the UK).

This 2024 report (pdf) has 2022 data, which is lower than 2021, but still above the average of the pervious 10 years: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2022...


Why are you comparing black women in the U.S. to mostly white women in the UK? The maternal mortality rate for black women in the UK is about 4 times higher than for white women in the UK: https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/maternal-mortality-rates-...


True, but I was just referring to the data on the linked site.


OK, then, why are you linking to a site/page that compares black women in the U.S. to mostly white women in the UK?


If you refer to my original post, my focus was to provide additional detail that was being requested. Note that I also compared US white women to all UK women.

It is a US based site which provides a breakdown on the US population, and compares it to other developed countries.

I pulled out some figures I thought were interesting - both for black and white populations it shows a significant difference to the country I live in (UK).

Even the group with the best outcomes in the US, still shows a roughly 2.5 times higher incidence of death. I am interested in why the outcomes are worse across all groups.


Because the chart embeds aren't resolving for me:

<https://archive.is/2Ws4K>

(Archive Today is useful for rendering over-desigend, brittle, websites, I'm finding with increasing frequency.)




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