54.9

The three-year rolling average rate of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births for Black women. This rate is more than 2.5 times higher than the rate for white women at 20.4 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. 

[Source: Oklahoma Maternal Mortality Review Committee via The Frontier]

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