Maternal mortality

Deaths from causes related to pregnancy, per 100,000 live births.

measured by: World Bank
originally from: World Health Organization, Trends in Maternal Mortality
years covered: 1985–2023
subject: Society

Higher is generally taken as worse.

How this is measured

Deaths during pregnancy or within 42 days of its end from any related cause, per 100,000 live births. Modelled by a UN inter-agency group rather than counted, because most countries do not register these deaths reliably — so the confidence intervals are wide, particularly where the rate is highest. It spans three orders of magnitude, so it is rescaled logarithmically inside an index.

Ranked for 2023

167 countries and territories have a figure for 2023. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 1985.

#	Country	Region	Maternal deaths
1	Belarus	Eurasia	1.0
2	Norway	Europe	1.0
3	Australia	Asia-Pacific	2.0
4	Israel	Middle East & North Africa	2.0
5	Poland	Europe	2.0
6	United Arab Emirates	Middle East & North Africa	3.0
7	Czechia	Europe	3.0
8	Spain	Europe	3.0
9	Croatia	Europe	3.0
10	Iceland	Europe	3.0
11	Japan	Asia-Pacific	3.0
12	North Macedonia	Europe	3.0
13	Slovenia	Europe	3.0
14	Belgium	Europe	4.0
15	Germany	Europe	4.0
16	Denmark	Europe	4.0
17	Ireland	Europe	4.0
18	South Korea	Asia-Pacific	4.0
19	Netherlands	Europe	4.0
20	Qatar	Middle East & North Africa	4.0
21	Slovakia	Europe	4.0
22	Sweden	Europe	4.0
23	Switzerland	Europe	5.0
24	Estonia	Europe	5.0
25	Greece	Europe	5.0
26	Turkmenistan	Eurasia	5.0
27	Austria	Europe	6.0
28	Bulgaria	Europe	6.0
29	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	6.0
30	Italy	Europe	6.0
31	Montenegro	Europe	6.0
32	Albania	Europe	7.0
33	France	Europe	7.0
34	New Zealand	Asia-Pacific	7.0
35	Saudi Arabia	Middle East & North Africa	7.0
36	Finland	Europe	8.0
37	United Kingdom	Europe	8.0
38	Kuwait	Middle East & North Africa	8.0
39	Lithuania	Europe	8.0
40	Russia	Eurasia	9.0
41	Chile	Americas	10.0
42	Kazakhstan	Eurasia	10.0
43	Luxembourg	Europe	11.0
44	Puerto Rico	Americas	11.0
45	Serbia	Europe	11.0
46	Canada	Americas	12.0
47	Hungary	Europe	12.0
48	Romania	Europe	12.0
49	Oman	Middle East & North Africa	13.0
50	Cyprus	Europe	14.0
51	Tajikistan	Eurasia	14.0
52	Lebanon	Middle East & North Africa	15.0
53	Portugal	Europe	15.0
54	Turkey	Eurasia	15.0
55	Ukraine	Eurasia	15.0
56	Uruguay	Americas	15.0
57	China	Asia-Pacific	16.0
58	Iran	Middle East & North Africa	16.0
59	Palestine	Middle East & North Africa	16.0
60	Egypt	Middle East & North Africa	17.0
61	United States	Americas	17.0
62	Azerbaijan	Eurasia	18.0
63	Sri Lanka	Asia-Pacific	18.0
64	Armenia	Eurasia	19.0
65	Latvia	Europe	19.0
66	Moldova	Eurasia	19.0
67	Georgia	Eurasia	20.0
68	Syria	Middle East & North Africa	20.0
69	Costa Rica	Americas	24.0
70	Malaysia	Asia-Pacific	26.0
71	Uzbekistan	Eurasia	26.0
72	Fiji	Asia-Pacific	30.0
73	Jordan	Middle East & North Africa	31.0
74	Argentina	Americas	33.0
75	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	34.0
76	Cuba	Americas	35.0
77	Brunei	Asia-Pacific	36.0
78	Tunisia	Middle East & North Africa	36.0
79	Panama	Americas	37.0
80	El Salvador	Americas	39.0
81	Mongolia	Asia-Pacific	41.0
82	Kyrgyzstan	Eurasia	42.0
83	Mexico	Americas	42.0
84	Bhutan	Asia-Pacific	47.0
85	Honduras	Americas	47.0
86	Vietnam	Asia-Pacific	48.0
87	Peru	Americas	51.0
88	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	54.0
89	Ecuador	Americas	55.0
90	Paraguay	Americas	58.0
91	Colombia	Americas	59.0
92	Libya	Middle East & North Africa	59.0
93	Nicaragua	Americas	60.0
94	Algeria	Middle East & North Africa	62.0
95	Iraq	Middle East & North Africa	66.0
96	Belize	Americas	67.0
97	Brazil	Americas	67.0
98	North Korea	Asia-Pacific	67.0
99	Morocco	Middle East & North Africa	70.0
100	Guyana	Americas	75.0
101	Bahamas	Americas	76.0
102	India	Asia-Pacific	80.0
103	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	84.0
104	Suriname	Americas	84.0
105	Zambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	85.0
106	Guatemala	Americas	94.0
107	Mozambique	Sub-Saharan Africa	99.0
108	Vanuatu	Asia-Pacific	100.0
109	Laos	Asia-Pacific	112.0
110	Bangladesh	Asia-Pacific	115.0
111	Eswatini	Sub-Saharan Africa	118.0
112	Yemen	Middle East & North Africa	118.0
113	South Africa	Sub-Saharan Africa	118.0
114	Solomon Islands	Asia-Pacific	123.0
115	Dominican Republic	Americas	124.0
116	Jamaica	Americas	130.0
117	Cambodia	Asia-Pacific	137.0
118	Namibia	Sub-Saharan Africa	139.0
119	Indonesia	Asia-Pacific	140.0
120	Nepal	Asia-Pacific	142.0
121	Bolivia	Americas	146.0
122	Kenya	Sub-Saharan Africa	149.0
123	Botswana	Sub-Saharan Africa	155.0
124	Pakistan	Asia-Pacific	155.0
125	Djibouti	Sub-Saharan Africa	162.0
126	Uganda	Sub-Saharan Africa	170.0
127	Equatorial Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	174.0
128	Angola	Sub-Saharan Africa	183.0
129	Myanmar	Asia-Pacific	185.0
130	Papua New Guinea	Asia-Pacific	189.0
131	Timor-Leste	Asia-Pacific	192.0
132	Ethiopia	Sub-Saharan Africa	195.0
133	Malawi	Sub-Saharan Africa	225.0
134	Venezuela	Americas	227.0
135	Rwanda	Sub-Saharan Africa	229.0
136	Gabon	Sub-Saharan Africa	233.0
137	Ghana	Sub-Saharan Africa	234.0
138	Senegal	Sub-Saharan Africa	237.0
139	Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	241.0
140	Burkina Faso	Sub-Saharan Africa	242.0
141	Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	256.0
142	Cameroon	Sub-Saharan Africa	258.0
143	Tanzania	Sub-Saharan Africa	276.0
144	Eritrea	Sub-Saharan Africa	291.0
145	Haiti	Americas	328.0
146	Togo	Sub-Saharan Africa	349.0
147	Niger	Sub-Saharan Africa	350.0
148	Gambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	354.0
149	Sierra Leone	Sub-Saharan Africa	354.0
150	Zimbabwe	Sub-Saharan Africa	358.0
151	Côte d'Ivoire	Sub-Saharan Africa	359.0
152	Mali	Sub-Saharan Africa	367.0
153	Mauritania	Sub-Saharan Africa	381.0
154	Burundi	Sub-Saharan Africa	392.0
155	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	427.0
156	Madagascar	Sub-Saharan Africa	445.0
157	Lesotho	Sub-Saharan Africa	478.0
158	Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	494.0
159	Guinea-Bissau	Sub-Saharan Africa	505.0
160	Benin	Sub-Saharan Africa	518.0
161	Afghanistan	Asia-Pacific	521.0
162	Somalia	Sub-Saharan Africa	563.0
163	Liberia	Sub-Saharan Africa	628.0
164	Central African Republic	Sub-Saharan Africa	692.0
165	South Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	692.0
166	Chad	Sub-Saharan Africa	748.0
167	Nigeria	Sub-Saharan Africa	993.0

Data by year

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Source and licence

World Bank — World Development Indicators

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