Maternal mortality ratio by country, 2023
Women who die from pregnancy-related causes while pregnant or within 42 days of the end of pregnancy, per 100,000 live births. These are modelled estimates.
194 places ranked for 2023. Highest: Nigeria (993 per 100,000 live births). Lowest: Norway (1 per 100,000 live births). The median is 47 per 100,000 live births.
Highest 10
- 1. Nigeria 993 per 100,000 live births
- 2. Chad 748 per 100,000 live births
- 3. Central African Republic 692 per 100,000 live births
- 4. South Sudan 692 per 100,000 live births
- 5. Liberia 628 per 100,000 live births
- 6. Somalia, Fed. Rep. 563 per 100,000 live births
- 7. Afghanistan 521 per 100,000 live births
- 8. Benin 518 per 100,000 live births
- 9. Guinea-Bissau 505 per 100,000 live births
- 10. Guinea 494 per 100,000 live births
Lowest 10
- 194. Norway 1 per 100,000 live births
- 193. Belarus 1 per 100,000 live births
- 192. Poland 2 per 100,000 live births
- 191. Israel 2 per 100,000 live births
- 190. Australia 2 per 100,000 live births
- 189. United Arab Emirates 3 per 100,000 live births
- 188. Spain 3 per 100,000 live births
- 187. Slovenia 3 per 100,000 live births
- 186. North Macedonia 3 per 100,000 live births
- 185. Japan 3 per 100,000 live births
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The chart shows the 40 highest values; the table lists all 194. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators.
In short
- Among the 194 countries with a value for 2023, the highest is Nigeria (993 per 100,000 live births) and the lowest Norway (1 per 100,000 live births).
- Half of the countries are above 47 per 100,000 live births and half below.
- From 2022 to 2023 the value rose in 17 countries and fell in 156.
- The figure for the world was 197 per 100,000 live births in 2023, against 211 per 100,000 live births in 2018 (−14).
Full ranking
| # | Country | Value | Period | Relative size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nigeria | 993 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 2 | Chad | 748 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 3 | Central African Republic | 692 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 4 | South Sudan | 692 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 5 | Liberia | 628 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 6 | Somalia, Fed. Rep. | 563 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 7 | Afghanistan | 521 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 8 | Benin | 518 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 9 | Guinea-Bissau | 505 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 10 | Guinea | 494 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 11 | Lesotho | 478 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 12 | Madagascar | 445 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 13 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 427 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 14 | Burundi | 392 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 15 | Mauritania | 381 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 16 | Mali | 367 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 17 | Côte d'Ivoire | 359 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 18 | Zimbabwe | 358 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 19 | Gambia | 354 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 20 | Sierra Leone | 354 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 21 | Niger | 350 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 22 | Togo | 349 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 23 | Haiti | 328 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 24 | Eritrea | 291 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 25 | Tanzania | 276 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 26 | Naoero | 273 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 27 | Cameroon | 258 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 28 | Sudan | 256 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 29 | Burkina Faso | 242 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 30 | Republic of the Congo | 241 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 31 | Senegal | 237 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 32 | Ghana | 234 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 33 | Gabon | 233 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 34 | Rwanda | 229 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 35 | Venezuela | 227 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 36 | Malawi | 225 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 37 | Ethiopia | 195 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 38 | Timor-Leste | 192 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 39 | Papua New Guinea | 189 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 40 | Myanmar | 185 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 41 | Angola | 183 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 42 | Comoros | 179 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 43 | Equatorial Guinea | 174 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 44 | Tuvalu | 170 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 45 | Uganda | 170 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 46 | Djibouti | 162 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 47 | Botswana | 155 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 48 | Marshall Islands | 155 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 49 | Pakistan | 155 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 50 | Kenya | 149 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 51 | Bolivia | 146 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 52 | Nepal | 142 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 53 | Indonesia | 140 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 54 | Namibia | 139 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 55 | Cambodia | 137 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 56 | Jamaica | 130 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 57 | Micronesia | 129 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 58 | Dominican Republic | 124 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 59 | Solomon Islands | 123 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 60 | Eswatini | 118 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 61 | South Africa | 118 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 62 | Yemen | 118 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 63 | Bangladesh | 115 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 64 | Laos | 112 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 65 | Samoa | 101 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 66 | Vanuatu | 100 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 67 | Mozambique | 99 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 68 | Guatemala | 94 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 69 | Palau | 89 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 70 | Zambia | 85 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 71 | Philippines | 84 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 72 | Suriname | 84 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 73 | India | 80 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 74 | Kiribati | 80 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 75 | Bahamas | 76 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 76 | Guyana | 75 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 77 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 75 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 78 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 74 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 79 | Morocco | 70 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 80 | Belize | 67 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 81 | Brazil | 67 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 82 | North Korea | 67 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 83 | Tonga | 67 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 84 | Iraq | 66 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 85 | Mauritius | 66 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 86 | Algeria | 62 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 87 | Nicaragua | 60 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 88 | Colombia | 59 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 89 | Libya | 59 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 90 | Paraguay | 58 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 91 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 56 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 92 | Ecuador | 55 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 93 | Trinidad and Tobago | 54 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 94 | Peru | 51 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 95 | Grenada | 48 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 96 | Viet Nam | 48 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 97 | Bhutan | 47 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 98 | Honduras | 47 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 99 | Saint Lucia | 44 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 100 | Kyrgyzstan | 42 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 101 | Mexico | 42 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 102 | Seychelles | 42 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 103 | Mongolia | 41 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 104 | Cabo Verde | 40 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 105 | El Salvador | 39 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 106 | Panama | 37 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 107 | Brunei | 36 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 108 | Dominica | 36 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 109 | Tunisia | 36 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 110 | Antigua and Barbuda | 35 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 111 | Barbados | 35 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 112 | Cuba | 35 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 113 | Thailand | 34 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 114 | Argentina | 33 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 115 | Maldives | 32 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 116 | Jordan | 31 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 117 | Fiji | 30 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 118 | Malaysia | 26 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 119 | Uzbekistan | 26 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 120 | Costa Rica | 24 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 121 | Georgia | 20 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 122 | Syria | 20 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 123 | Armenia | 19 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 124 | Latvia | 19 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 125 | Moldova | 19 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 126 | Azerbaijan | 18 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 127 | Sri Lanka | 18 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 128 | Bahrain | 17 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 129 | Egypt | 17 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 130 | United States | 17 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 131 | China | 16 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 132 | Iran | 16 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 133 | West Bank and Gaza | 16 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 134 | Lebanon | 15 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 135 | Portugal | 15 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 136 | Türkiye | 15 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 137 | Ukraine | 15 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 138 | Uruguay | 15 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 139 | Cyprus | 14 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 140 | Tajikistan | 14 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 141 | Oman | 13 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 142 | Canada | 12 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 143 | Hungary | 12 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 144 | Romania | 12 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 145 | Andorra | 11 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 146 | Luxembourg | 11 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 147 | Puerto Rico (US) | 11 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 148 | Serbia | 11 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 149 | Chile | 10 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 150 | Kazakhstan | 10 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 151 | Russia | 9 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 152 | Finland | 8 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 153 | Kuwait | 8 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 154 | Lithuania | 8 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 155 | Malta | 8 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 156 | San Marino | 8 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 157 | United Kingdom | 8 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 158 | Albania | 7 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 159 | France | 7 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 160 | New Zealand | 7 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 161 | Saudi Arabia | 7 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 162 | Austria | 6 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 163 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 6 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 164 | Bulgaria | 6 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 165 | Italy | 6 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 166 | Montenegro | 6 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 167 | Singapore | 6 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 168 | Estonia | 5 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 169 | Greece | 5 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 170 | Monaco | 5 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 171 | Switzerland | 5 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 172 | Turkmenistan | 5 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 173 | Belgium | 4 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 174 | Denmark | 4 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 175 | Germany | 4 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 176 | Ireland | 4 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 177 | Netherlands | 4 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 178 | Qatar | 4 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 179 | Slovakia | 4 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 180 | South Korea | 4 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 181 | Sweden | 4 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 182 | Croatia | 3 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 183 | Czechia | 3 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 184 | Iceland | 3 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 185 | Japan | 3 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 186 | North Macedonia | 3 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 187 | Slovenia | 3 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 188 | Spain | 3 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 189 | United Arab Emirates | 3 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 190 | Australia | 2 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 191 | Israel | 2 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 192 | Poland | 2 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 193 | Belarus | 1 per 100,000 live births | 2023 | |
| 194 | Norway | 1 per 100,000 live births | 2023 |
Places are ordered from the highest to the lowest value. Group medians on this site are the middle value of the members with data for the same year; they are not official aggregates.
How this ranking works
Every country is ranked on its value for 2023, the latest period that most countries have, so all values are for the same point in time. Countries without a value for 2023 are left out. Groups and aggregates such as the European Union are not ranked. Values are as published by World Bank; the ranking is a plain ordering from the highest to the lowest value and says nothing about whether a high value is good or bad.
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