Our World in Data · OWID.MAT.MORT
Maternal mortality ratio
Estimated number of women who die from maternal conditions per 100,000 live births, based on data from death certificates, large-scale surveys, and statistical modeling.
Maternal mortality ratio data
Unweighted average of the 54 countries reporting in 2020
-25% on 2010. Country values run from 3.3 to 1,223 deaths per 100,000 live births. An average of country values, not a regional total.
- Countries covered
- 54
- Years
- 1961–2020
- Observations
- 1,968
- Source
- Our World in Data
Countries
3/6 selected. Select up to 6 to compare.
Years
1961 – 2020 · 60 years
Annual values by country, 1961 to 2020
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- Algeria
- Angola
- Mauritius
3 countries · 60 years · 1,968 values in the snapshot
Data tablevalues in deaths per 100,000 live births
| Country | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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| Algeria DZ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 256 | 240 | 237 | 223 | 217 | 206 | 204 | 204 | 204 | 203 | 204 | 192 | 181 | 187 | 187 | 159 | 156 | 150 | 153 | 137 | 144 | 135 | 125 | 117 | 115 | 112 | 106 | 99.1 | 94.3 | 86.2 | 89.1 | 89 | 89.1 | 79.5 | 76.7 | 77.7 |
| Angola AO | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1,098 | 1,084 | 1,015 | 1,014 | 1,100 | 1,102 | 1,057 | 1,144 | 1,096 | 1,062 | 1,023 | 997 | 961 | 934 | 894 | 860 | 800 | 758 | 677 | 594 | 550 | 508 | 463 | 438 | 399 | 367 | 335 | 304 | 291 | 292 | 274 | 270 | 253 | 233 | 228 | 222 |
| Mauritius MU | 117 | 154 | 146 | 149 | 84.3 | 109 | 125 | 160 | 141 | 175 | 118 | 174 | 148 | 135 | 108 | 109 | 163 | 102 | 106 | 115 | 69.6 | 93.5 | 50.5 | 86.8 | 142 | 143 | 128 | 112 | 110 | 97.6 | 90.7 | 86.9 | 75.8 | 75.7 | 74.1 | 62.6 | 59.2 | 59.1 | 52.1 | 52.2 | 49.9 | 48.3 | 47 | 45.7 | 47.7 | 43 | 42.9 | 45.1 | 49.4 | 55.1 | 42.3 | 46.7 | 47.8 | 51 | 56.6 | 51.8 | 45.7 | 50.3 | 49.1 | 84.4 |
Source and notes
- Indicator code
- OWID.MAT.MORT
- Unit
- deaths per 100,000 live births
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Collection
- Our World in Data
Values as published by Our World in Data: UN MMEIG (2023) and other sources. Coverage is the countries and years held in this snapshot, not the full extent of the series at source. Check at ourworldindata.org.
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