Episode 6: What birth statistics indicate about how the U.S. values families

Release date: January 20, 2025

It has been just over two weeks since Baby New Year 2025 arrived, so for this sixth and final mini holiday break episode of the 2024-2025 season of Talking About Kids, I am going to discuss births, deaths, and the fetal mortality rates and maternal mortality ratios. Links to the data I cite are below. Full-length Talking About Kids episodes will return next week.

Links

Fetal Mortality in the United States: Final 2021–2022 and 2022–Provisional 2023

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr036.pdf

Global fetal mortality rates

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.IMRT.MA.IN?most_recent_value_desc=true

Insights into the U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis: An International Comparison

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2024/jun/insights-us-maternal-mortality-crisis-international-comparison

Global maternal mortality ratios

https://genderdata.worldbank.org/en/indicator/sh-sta-mmrt