The maternal mortality rate has dropped to 18 per 100-thousand live births last year.

全国孕产妇死亡率下降到18.3／10万。”

For many years, and, historically, we have had really high infant and maternal mortality rates.

纵观历史，我们的婴儿和产妇死亡率这么多年来一直很高。

The need is urgent in Kenya where high maternal mortality rates still plague mothers-to-be.

在肯尼亚，这一需求非常迫切，那里的高孕产妇死亡率仍然困扰着准妈妈们。

The United States of America has one of the highest maternal mortality rates of any so-called developed country.

美利坚合众国是所有所谓发达国家中产妇死亡率最高的国家之一。

Decades of conflict in the East African nation have raised its child and maternal mortality rates to among the worst in the world.

数十年的冲突使索马里这个东非国家成为世界上妇幼死亡率最高的国家之一。

The way researchers measure the maternal mortality rate is the number of women who die as a result of pregnancy or childbirth per 100,000 births.

研究人员衡量产妇死亡率的方法是按照每 10 万次分娩中因怀孕或分娩而死亡的妇女人数计算。

We may not reduce maternal mortality rate.

我们可能不会降低孕产妇死亡率。

The maternal mortality rate in Sierra Leone is so high, doctors say, because a large share of women won't go to a medical center to give birth.

塞拉利昂的产妇死亡率很高，医生说，因为很大一部分妇女不去医疗中心分娩。

First, America is one of only 13 countries where the maternal mortality rate increased between 2000 and 2017, putting it in the august company of Venezuela and Syria.

首先，美国是仅有的在2000年至2017年之间孕妇死亡率上升的13个国家之一，是委内瑞拉同叙利亚的八分之一。

But it also has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world.

但它也是世界上孕产妇死亡率最高的国家之一。

In Cambodia, the maternal mortality rate is 170 deaths for every 100,000 live births.

在柬埔寨，孕产妇死亡率为每 100, 000 名活产婴儿中就有 170 人死亡。

We've talked a lot about Black maternal mortality rates.

我们已经谈论了很多关于黑人孕产妇死亡率的问题。

But women who live far from major cities still have higher maternal mortality rates than the national average.

但远离大城市的妇女的孕产妇死亡率仍然高于全国平均水平。

Clearly, current efforts to address maternal mortality rates and the racial and health disparities in that area remain woefully inadequate.

显然，目前解决孕产妇死亡率以及该地区种族和健康差异的努力仍然远远不够。

And as we did, we described to them what their daughters-in-law actually did: they impacted maternal mortality rates and infant mortality rates.

正如我们所做的那样，我们向他们描述了他们的儿媳实际上做了什么：他们影响了孕产妇死亡率和婴儿死亡率。

I mean, one example, in the case of Sierra Leone, is it used to have the worst maternal mortality rate in the world.

我的意思是，一个例子，就塞拉利昂而言，它曾经是世界上孕产妇死亡率最高的国家。

And then that got attention.Sierra Leone was embarrassed.And now delivery is free in Sierra Leone, and the maternal mortality rate has dropped by more than half.

然后这引起了注意。塞拉利昂很尴尬。现在塞拉利昂是免费分娩的，孕产妇死亡率下降了一半以上。

But — Black people in the UK are facing a maternal mortality rate that's also four times that of white women, just like the rates in the US.

但是，英国黑人面临的孕产妇死亡率也是白人女性的四倍，就像美国的死亡率一样。

The shocking part of this story is that our maternal mortality rate is actually higher than all other high-income countries, and our rates are far worse for women of color.

这个故事令人震惊的部分是，我们的孕产妇死亡率实际上高于所有其他高收入国家，而且我们的有色人种女性死亡率要低得多。

For example, the maternal mortality rate is 5 times higher in lower middle income countries than in upper middle income countries, and one-third of children under the age of five are malnourished.

例如， 中低收入国家的孕产妇死亡率是中高收入国家的 5 倍，五岁以下儿童中有三分之一营养不良。