List of countries by maternal mortality ratio

Maternal mortality ratio (with Sustainable Development Goal target) as of 2015^[1]

Maternal death, also called maternal mortality, is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes." The maternal mortality ratio, on the other hand, is the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. The maternal mortality ratio is used as a criterion for the quality of medical care in a country. The global rate is 211 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.^[2]

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data sources are in citations.

Countries by maternal mortality ratio. 2017

Rank	Country	Maternal mortality ratio (maternal deaths per 100,000 live births)
1	Belarus	2
	Poland	2
	Italy	2
	Norway	2
5	Greece	3
	Israel	3
	Finland	3
	Czech Republic	3
	United Arab Emirates	3
10	Spain	4
	Sweden	4
	Denmark	4
	Iceland	4
14	Belgium	5
	Luxembourg	5
	Japan	5
	Netherlands	5
	Switzerland	5
	Slovakia	5
	Austria	5
	Ireland	5
22	Montenegro	6
	Malta	6
	Cyprus	6
	Australia	6
26	United Kingdom	7
	Turkmenistan	7
	Slovenia	7
	North Macedonia	7
	Germany	7
31	Lithuania	8
	Croatia	8
	Portugal	8
	France	8
	Singapore	8
36	Estonia	9
	New Zealand	9
	Qatar	9
39	Bulgaria	10
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	10
	Canada	10
	Kazakhstan	10
	Taiwan	10
44	South Korea	11
45	Serbia	12
	Hungary	12
	Kuwait	12
48	Chile	13
49	Bahrain	14
50	Albania	15
51	Iran	16
52	Russia	17
	Uruguay	17
	Tajikistan	17
	Turkey	17
	Saudi Arabia	17
57	Romania	19
	Oman	19
	Moldova	19
	United States	19[3]
	Latvia	19
	Ukraine	19
63	Puerto Rico (US)	21
63	Georgia	25
	Grenada	25
66	Azerbaijan	26
	Armenia	26
68	Barbados	27
	Palestine	27
	Costa Rica	27
71	Uzbekistan	29
	Malaysia	29
	China	29
	Lebanon	29
76	Brunei	31
	Syria	31
77	Mexico	33
78	Fiji	34
80	Belize	36
	Cuba	36
	Sri Lanka	36
83	Egypt	37
	Thailand	37
85	Argentina	39
86	Antigua and Barbuda	42
87	Samoa	43
	Vietnam	43
	Tunisia	43
90	Mongolia	45
91	El Salvador	46
	Jordan	46
93	Tonga	52
	Panama	52
95	Maldives	53
	Seychelles	53
97	Cape Verde	58
98	Ecuador	59
99	Brazil	60
	Kyrgyzstan	60
101	Mauritius	61
102	Honduras	65
103	Trinidad and Tobago	67
104	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	68
105	Bahamas	70
	Morocco	70
107	Vanuatu	72
	Libya	72
109	Iraq	79
110	Jamaica	80
111	Colombia	83
112	Peru	88
	Federated States of Micronesia	88
114	North Korea	89
115	Kiribati	92
116	Guatemala	95
	Dominican Republic	95
118	Nicaragua	98
119	Solomon Islands	104
120	Algeria	112
	India	112[4]
121	Saint Lucia	117
122	South Africa	119
123	Suriname	120
124	Philippines	121
125	Venezuela	125
126	Paraguay	129
127	São Tomé and Príncipe	130
128	Timor-Leste	142
129	Botswana	144
130	Papua New Guinea	145
131	Bolivia	155
132	Cambodia	160
133	Yemen	164
134	Guyana	169
135	Bangladesh	173
136	Indonesia	177
137	Bhutan	183
138	Laos	185
139	Nepal	186
	Pakistan	186[5]
141	Namibia	195
142	Zambia	213
143	Angola	241
144	Rwanda	248
	Djibouti	248
146	Myanmar	250
147	Gabon	252
148	Comoros	273
149	Mozambique	289
150	Sudan	295
151	Equatorial Guinea	301
152	Ghana	308
153	Senegal	315
154	Burkina Faso	320
155	Madagascar	335
156	Kenya	342
157	Malawi	349
158	Uganda	375
159	Republic of the Congo	378
160	Togo	396
161	Benin	397
162	Ethiopia	401
163	Eswatini (Swaziland)	437
164	Zimbabwe	458
165	Democratic Republic of the Congo	473
166	Haiti	480
	Eritrea	480
168	Niger	509
169	Tanzania	524
170	Cameroon	529
171	Lesotho	544
172	Burundi	548
173	Mali	562
174	Guinea	576
175	Gambia	597
176	Ivory Coast	617
177	Afghanistan	638
178	Liberia	661
179	Guinea-Bissau	667
180	Mauritania	766
181	Somalia	829
	Central African Republic	829
183	Nigeria	917
184	Sierra Leone	1,120
185	Chad	1,140
186	South Sudan	1,150
	World	211

See also[]

• List of countries by infant and under-five mortality rates

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