Estimated pregnancy related maternal mortality

Type of pregnancy	Death rate
Legal pregnancy termination	0.567 per 100,000 terminations
Miscarriage	1.19 per 100,000 miscarriages
Live birth	7.06 per 100,000 live births
Ectopic pregnancy	31.9 per 100,000 ectopic pregnancies

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Estimates based on data from over 57 million pregnancies in the United States from 1991 to 1999.

Adapted from Grimes D. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2006; 194:92.

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