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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 ...
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]
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]
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 ]
It comes after a new review suggested that maternal mortality in the UK is on the rise.
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.
Welteroth was always aware of the statistics about maternal mortality: The U.S. has one of the highest maternal-mortality rates of any high-income country in the world, and Black women are three ...
Though data for some countries are not known with much certainty, the SOWM 2010 report had many findings in common with a recent study published in The Lancet, which found that 23 of 181 countries are on track to achieve Millennium Development Goal 5 of a 75% reduction in maternal mortality rate between 1990 and 2015. [19] [20]