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Week 2: Giving birth

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This graph shows first day deaths in 34 different industrialised countries. The United States has the highest first-day mortality rate at 2.6 per 1000 live births. Luxembourg has the lowest first-day mortality rate at 0.4 per 1000 live births. The United Kingdom has a first-day mortality rate of 1.4 per 1000 live births.

 2.2 State of the world’s mothers