Table 2. Trends of Maternal Mortality Ratio and Hospital Delivery Rate in the three priority county groups in China, 1999–2007.

	Live births	Maternal death		Hospital delivery
		N	MMR	HDR (%)	RACS
County Group 1
1999	1501484	1944	129.47	40.03
2000	1532113	1856	121.14	42.91	−0.89
2001	1532286	1488	97.11	48.03	−1.40
2002	1471883	1385	94.10	50.68	−1.23
2003	1440507	1351	93.79	53.31	−1.04
2004	1427248	1202	84.22	58.29	−1.06
2005	1422350	1082	76.07	64.34	−1.03
2006	1455042	978	67.21	69.60	−1.09
2007	1501294	794	52.89	76.24	−1.26
County Group 2
2001	183261	166	90.58	57.29
2002	181829	151	83.05	63.02	−0.83
2003	183412	121	65.97	69.75	−1.42
2004	196099	142	72.41	76.18	−0.72
2005	197289	100	50.69	82.59	−1.41
2006	210165	68	32.36	86.26	−2.18
2007	218285	72	32.98	92.65	−1.86
County Group 3
2004	2204880	1316	59.69	77.01
2005	2351403	1092	46.44	81.68	−3.66
2006	2426127	952	39.24	88.12	−2.71
2007	2554429	816	31.94	92.56	−2.98

N: Number of maternal deaths.

MMR: Maternal Mortality Ratio (per 10,000 live births).

HDR: Hospital Delivery Rate.

RACS: Ratio of Average Change Speed.