In the period 2016-2020, babies born from non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native mothers in the United States had the highest rates of cleft palate alone, with around 8.6 babies born with this defect per 10,000 live births. Cleft lip and cleft palate are birth defects in which a baby's lip or mouth do not properly form. This statistic shows the rate of select mouth, face, and eye birth defects in the United States from 2016 to 2020, by maternal race/ethnicity.