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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 in 2017 (2017 or latest available year for some countries).[2]
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See also
- Health system
- Health care systems by country
- Maternal mortality in the United States
- List of countries by hospital beds
- List of countries by life expectancy
- List of countries by infant and under-five mortality rates
- List of countries by quality of healthcare
- List of OECD health expenditure by country by type of financing
- List of countries by total health expenditure per capita
- Health spending as a percent of GDP by country (gross domestic product)
References
- 1 2 3 Maternal mortality ratio. Our World in Data (OWID). Data source: World Health Organization (via World Bank). Sources tab has much more detailed sources info. Table tab has data. Click map tab, and then the download tab to get latest map.
- ↑ "Maternal mortality ratio (modeled estimate, per 100,000 live births) | Data". Scroll down for country list, and for world and regional numbers.
- ↑ "Maternal mortality rates and statistics". UNICEF DATA. Retrieved 2023-04-02.
- ↑ "Maternal mortality ratio (per 100 000 live births)". www.who.int. Retrieved 2023-04-02.