Reply #7: Virtually unchanged in Canada...

[SidDithers]

not sure why the two countries are lumped together.

The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) for Canada was 5.5 (95% CI: 4.2–7.2) per 100,000 live births in 2002–2004. This rate was not statistically different from the same rate in 1999–2001 (4.2, 95% CI: 3.2–5.7). Even though the point estimate of the MMR in 2002–2004 was higher than in previous years, this is unlikely to be of significance especially since there were no striking increases in any of the specific causes of maternal death (page 103). A similar non-significant increase in the MMR was observed in the United Kingdom as well (11.4 per 100,000 maternities in 1997–1999 and 13.1 per 100,000 maternities in 2000–2002.

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/2008/cphr-rspc/behaviours-comportements-eng.php

For Full report from the Public Health Agency of Canada:
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/2008/cphr-rspc/index-eng.php


What the statistics do show, however, is that women are generally having babies later in life, with the associated increased risks that follow.

Sid