Fig. 3.

The rates of maternal mortalities in the US are substantially higher than those of a subset of five other developed countries. The data, derived from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), are reproduced by permission of David U. Himmelstein, MD, and Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH, Professors of Public Health at the City University of New York at Hunter College and co-founders of Physicians for a National Health Program.