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Maternal mortality ratio

The number of women who die from pregnancy-related causes while pregnant or within 42 days of pregnancy termination, per 100,000 live births.

Weighted average · not a median

First official point · 1985

460

deaths per 100,000 live births

Latest official point · 2023

197

deaths per 100,000 live births

Published World points

39

1985–2023

Gaps are years without a published World value. The line is not interpolated.

How this series is built

Birth-weighted average. Not a median of countries.

Official UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG) series — WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank, and UN DESA — accessed via World Bank WDI. Estimates are modeled. Only years with a published World value are shown.

Source

Aggregate
Weighted average · not a median
Producer
UN MMEIG (WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank, UN DESA)
Series
UN MMEIG maternal mortality estimates
Series code
SH.STA.MMRT
License
CC BY 4.0
Fetched
2026-08-17