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- Exemplars in Global Health: Learning from the most successful countries in the world
- Exemplars in Global Health: Which countries are most successful in preventing maternal deaths?
- Global Health
- If we can make maternal deaths as rare as they are in the healthiest countries, we can save almost 300,000 mothers each year
- Maternal Mortality
- Measurement Matters – The decline of maternal mortality
Charts
- Change in maternal mortality
- Change in maternal mortality ratio
- Death rate from conflict and terrorismIHME, age-standardized
- Death rate from conflict and terrorismIHME, crude
- Death rate from pregnancy or maternal conditions
- Death rate from pregnancy or maternal conditions
- Deaths from conflict and terrorismIHME, GBD
- Has country already reached SDG target on maternal mortality?
- MDG5.A: Maternal mortality ratio
- Maternal deaths by cause
- Maternal deaths by income group
- Maternal mortality ratioSlope Chart; World Bank
- Maternal mortality ratioWHO GHO data
- Maternal mortality ratioIHME
- Maternal mortality ratio vs. GDP per capita
- Maternal mortality ratio vs. births attended by skilled health staff
- Maternal mortality ratio vs. fertility rate
- Maternal mortality vs. neonatal mortality
- Number of maternal deathsIHME
- Number of maternal deathsWHO
- Number of maternal deaths by region
- Nurses and midwives per 1,000 people
- Preterm birth complication mortality rates vs. income
- Reported maternal mortality rateWHO Mortality Database, age-standardized
- Share of births attended by skilled health staff
- Share of mothers receiving at least four antenatal visits during pregnancy
- Share of mothers receiving medical care after giving birth
- Share of mothers visited by a health professional during pregnancy
- Share of women who are expected to die from pregnancy-related causes
- The maternal mortality ratio in 2000 and 2017World Bank