Table 2.

Homicide Mortality by Pregnancy Status and Victim Characteristics and Mortality Rate Ratios for Risk of Homicide Among Females in the Perinatal Period Compared With Nonpregnant, Nonpostpartum Females of Reproductive Age (10–44 Years) in the United States, 2018–2019

	Mortality Ratio (95% CI)
Characteristic	Pregnant or Within 1 y Postpartum*	Neither Pregnant Nor Within 1 y Postpartum†	Mortality RR (95% CI)
Total homicides	3.62 (3.19–4.05)	3.12 (3.03–3.22)	1.16 (1.03–1.31)
Race and ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White	2.12 (1.66–2.58)	2.12 (2.02–2.22)	1.00 (0.80–1.25)
Non-Hispanic Black	12.47 (10.38–14.56)	8.95 (8.53–9.36)	1.39 (1.17–1.66)
Hispanic	1.46 (0.90–2.02)	1.44 (1.31–1.57)	1.01 (0.68–1.50)
Other‡	3.54 (2.23–4.85)	3.84 (3.53–4.16)	0.92 (0.63–1.34)
Age (y)
10–19	10.12 (6.81–13.42)	1.52 (1.40–1.64)	6.67 (4.77–9.33)
20–24	6.77 (5.42–8.11)	4.09 (3.81–4.38)	1.65 (1.34–2.04)
25–29	2.61 (1.93–3.29)	4.07 (3.79–4.34)	0.64 (0.49–0.84)
30–34	2.24 (1.61–2.87)	4.04 (3.76–4.32)	0.56 (0.42–0.74)
35–44	2.46 (1.63–3.29)	3.37 (3.19–3.55)	0.73 (0.52–1.03)
Race-ethnicity and age (y)
Non-Hispanic White
10–24	4.05 (2.62–5.47)	1.35 (1.23–1.48)	2.99 (2.08–4.30)
25–29	1.76 (0.99–2.54)	2.52 (2.23–2.81)	0.70 (0.44–1.10)
30–44	1.58 (1.02–2.13)	2.71 (2.53–2.88)	0.58 (0.41–0.83)
Non-Hispanic Black
10–24	21.09 (16.25–25.93)	7.63 (7.05–8.21)	2.77 (2.17–3.52)
25–29	9.62 (6.28–12.95)	11.93 (10.72–13.14)	0.81 (0.56–1.16)
30–44	7.63 (4.99–10.27)	9.21 (8.56–9.85)	0.83 (0.58–1.18)

RR, rate ratio.

^*Deaths per 100,000 live births to females aged 10–44 years.

^†Deaths per 100,000 females aged 10–44 years minus live births to females aged 10–44 years.

^‡Data-suppression rules prohibit further delineating persons in the Other category by race and ethnic group. Persons included in this category are decedents of all racial and ethnic identities other than Hispanic, non-Hispanic White, and non-Hispanic Black.