In the United States in 2007, the deaths of 548 pregnant women and women in the process of giving birth or immediately after childbirth led to a maternal mortality rate of

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The maternal mortality rate is defined as the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. In this case, there were 548 maternal deaths and the number of live births was not provided. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that in 2007, there were 4,315,000 live births in the United States. Therefore, the maternal mortality rate would be 548/4,315,000 x 100,000 = 12.7 per 100,000 live births.

In the United States in 2007, the Deaths of 548