Women twice as likely to die in childbirth in U.S. than Canada, UN says
The United States was also one of only 13 countries to have worse rates of maternal mortality in 2015 than in 1990 – a group that also includes North Korea, Zimbabwe and Venezuela, Thursday’s report said. The United States and other developed countries are already far ahead of the target, but the U.S. average has slipped to 14 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, while Canada’s is at seven, where it was in 1990.
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