Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health › Part 8 - Office of Health Policy and Planning › Subpart 90 - Planning and Resource Development › Chapter 04 - Perinatal Care › Section 15-8-90-04-400 - Natality Statistics

Current through June 25, 2024
Mississippi experienced 36,634 live births in 2019. Of
					 these live births, 49.8 percent (18,248) were white non-Hispanic, 42.9 percent
					 (15,702) were black non-Hispanic, 2.7 percent (976) were other non-Hispanic and
					 4.7 percent (1708) were Hispanic. A physician attended 97.8 percent of all
					 in-hospital live births delivered in 2019 (36,449). Nurse midwife deliveries
					 accounted for 690 live births.
More than 99 percent of the live births occurred to women
					 15 to 44 years of age. Births to unmarried women made up 54.9 percent (20,106)
					 of all live births in 2019; 80.6 percent (12,656) of births to black
					 non-Hispanic women were to unmarried women. The rate for other race/ethnicity
					 groups were 33.3 percent (6,069) for white non-Hispanic women, 43.0 percent
					 (420) for other non-Hispanic women and 56.3 percent (961) for Hispanic women.
					 Women under the age of fifteen (15) gave birth to forty-two (42) children:
					 twenty-seven (27) were black non-Hispanic and nine (9) were white non-Hispanic
					 five (5) were Hispanic, and one (1) was other non-Hispanic.
The birth rate in 2019 was 12.3 live births per 1,000
					 population; the general fertility rate was 62.6 live births per 1,000 women
					 aged 15-44 years.
Mississippi reported 349 fetal deaths in 2019. The black
					 non-Hispanic fetal death ratio, which is the number of fetal deaths per 1000
					 live births to women in the specified age group, was more than two times that
					 of non-Hispanic white women, with a ratio of 14.3 per 1,000 live births
					 compared to 6.1 for non-Hispanic white women. Women aged 40 and older, had the
					 highest fetal death ratio at 15.3 per 1,000 live births, followed by women aged
					 20-24 with a ratio of 10.2. MSDH requires the reporting of fetal deaths with
					 gestation of twenty (20) or more weeks or fetal weight of 350 grams or more.
					 MSDH does not report fetal death rates for an age group if there are less than
					 100 births within that age group.
The number of maternal deaths between 2016-2018 which
					 occurred while pregnant or within forty-two (42) days of the end of a pregnancy
					 are twenty-one (21) or on average about seven (7) maternal deaths each
					 year.
Maternal Death is defined as a death of a woman while
					 pregnant or within forty-two (42) days of termination of pregnancy,
					 irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related
					 to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or
					 incidental causes. The Maternal Mortality Rate is calculated as the number of
					 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births and it is used to measure trends and
					 make national/international comparisons.
Maternal death data for the last three (3) years is
					 presented in Table 4-1 below (
this data was generated using information
					 from the MMRIA system
).
Table 4-1
Maternal Death 2016 - 2018
Year
Preganant at Time of
								  Death
Death within 42 Days of
								  Delivery
Death between 43 days but before 1 year of
								  delivery
Unknown
2016
2
5
15
1
2017
4
7
12
5
2018
0
3
8
1
Source: Health Data Operations and Research, Mississippi
					 State Department of Health, 2021