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Maternal mortality ratio per 100,000 live births. [1] From Our World in Data (using World Health Organization definition): "The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is defined as the number of maternal deaths during a given time period per 100,000 live births during the same time period. It depicts the risk of maternal death relative to the number of ...
It is not to be confused with the maternal mortality rate, which is the number of maternal deaths (direct and indirect) in a given period per 100,000 women of reproductive age during the same time period. [1] The statistics are gathered by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and the United Nations Population Division. [2]
These are the maternal mortality ratio and maternal mortality rate, both abbreviated as "MMR". [5] By 2017, the world maternal mortality rate had declined 44% since 1990; however, every day 808 women die from pregnancy or childbirth related causes. [6]
They found that Slovakia had the highest maternal death rates among the countries studied. ... This gives a maternal mortality rate of 10.9 women per 100,000 babies born – 24% higher than in ...
A new World Health Organization report shows the stark persistence of preventable maternal deaths over the past two decades. Maternal mortality rose across much of Europe and North America after ...
The US has the "highest rate of maternal mortality in the industrialized world." [ 82 ] In the United States, the maternal death rate averaged 9.1 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births during the years 1979–1986, [ 83 ] but then rose rapidly to 14 per 100,000 in 2000 and 17.8 per 100,000 in 2009. [ 84 ]
Crude mortality rate refers to the number of deaths over a given period divided by the person-years lived by the population over that period. It is usually expressed in units of deaths per 1,000 individuals per year. The list is based on CIA World Factbook 2023 estimates, unless indicated otherwise.
Black women have the highest maternal mortality rate in the United States — 69.9 per 100,000 live births for 2021, almost three times the rate for white women.