*The United States has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the industrialized world.
* India produces more maternal deaths, neonatal deaths, and births than any other country in the world. It alone accounts for one fifth of the global maternal deaths.
* Of the 4 million babies born in the US in 2012, 34% were delivered by cesarean, and more than 12% were preterm.
* Of the 26 million babies born in India in 2010, 12% were preterm, and nearly 1 million died as newborns.
*The lifetime risk of dying in childbirth in India is 1 in 170 versus 1 in 2400 in the US and 1 in 25,500 in Greece according to the WHO.