Letter M

Mortality rate, maternal

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The number of maternal deaths related to childbearing divided by the number of live births (or by the number of live births + fetal deaths) in that year.

The maternal mortality rate in the United States in 1993 (and 1994) was 0.1 per 1,000 live births, or one mother dying per 10,000 live births

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