This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. For much of 2020, many American mothers-to-be were ...

Black women have the highest maternal mortality rate in the U.S. — 69.9 per 100,000 live births for 2021, almost three times the rate for white women according to the CDC. Sisters Angelica Lyons, left ...

Home birth rates in the United States have continued to increase since the COVID-19 pandemic.​ In 2021, US home births ...

This story and visualization are part of our new “Data In Your Life” series, in which we mine public databases to tell quick stories about the world around us. In a matter of a year, Georgia’s ...

Ireland's Central Statistics Office (CSO) released its Vital Statistics Annual Report 2022 on Thursday, October 31. “The CSO’s Vital Statistics Annual Report 2022, provides an abundance of information ...

Gov. Kristi Noem has touted South Dakota's nation-leading fertility rate, but the state's high infant and maternal mortality rates haven't been a part of that image. In recent months, as the state's ...

The number of live births recorded in North Somerset remained stable last year, new figures show – as it rose across England for the first time since 2021. It comes days after Education Secretary ...