World · Maternal Mortality Ratio · deaths per 100,000 live births

## What this measures

Women in the world who die from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth, during pregnancy or within 42 days of its end, for every 100,000 live births. Modelled estimate. Yearly from 1985.

## Why it matters

It measures whether women can reach skilled birth attendants, emergency obstetric care and safe blood when they need them. UN Sustainable Development Goal target 3.1 is a global ratio below 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030.

## How to read it

Lower is better. Annual, dated December 31 of the reference year. The newest year comes from the latest round of UN estimates, and each round revises the whole history. The world value is the World Bank's own aggregate.

## What it does not say

Most countries with high maternal mortality do not register every death and its cause, so these are model estimates with wide uncertainty ranges; small year-to-year moves are within that range.

## Source

UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, UN DESA Population Division), via World Bank World Development Indicators, indicator `SH.STA.MMRT`. Licence per the World Bank's indicator metadata: CC BY 4.0. Palanor reads it each month (/api/cron/worldbank-sync) and rewrites the history, so revisions carry through.