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This implies the US data collection does not gather cause of death, with which a normalization before comparison would be harder.

Ill check now for this and edit this comment.

Edit:

> https://www.cdc.gov/maternal-mortality/php/data-research/?CD...

> Among the 525 pregnancy-related deaths, an underlying cause of death was identified for 511 deaths. In 2020, the six most frequent underlying causes of pregnancy-related death—mental health conditions, cardiovascular conditions, infection, hemorrhage, embolism, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy—accounted for over 82% of pregnancy-related deaths (Table 4).

> Among the 525 pregnancy-related deaths, a preventability determination was made for 515 deaths. Among these, 430 (84%) were determined to be preventable (Table 6).

This shows they didnt just take a yes\no for pregancy and +1ed the statistic, like you suggested. They reasoned about the causality and preventability.

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> This shows they didnt just take a yes\no for pregancy and +1ed the statistic, like you suggested.

I didn't suggest that.

What I said was how numbers were reported. The US reports all deaths in pregnant women, regardless of cause. Norways only reports maternal deaths when the cause is pregnancy complications.