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Maternal Mortality Ratio

24 years, 2000–2023 · 195 countries

The maternal mortality ratio is the number of women who die from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth for every 100,000 live births. It is the clearest single measure of whether a health system reaches women when they need it most.

This site holds every year from 2000 to 2023, read from MMEIG’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Newest
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2023
Held
24 years · 4,680 rows
Licence
CC BY 3.0 IGO

0124 years

Every year

Every year comes from MMEIG’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.

2000bar height: countries covered, up to 1952023
Every year of Maternal Mortality Ratio held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2023Newest195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2022195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2021195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2020195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2019195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2018195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2017195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2016195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2015195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2014195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2013195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2012195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Show all 24 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2011195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2010195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2009195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2008195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2007195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2006195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2005195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2004195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2003195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2002195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2001195±0September 11, 2026CSV
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2000195—September 11, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: maternal-mortality-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

023 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Maternal Mortality Ratio: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2023DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1950
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1950
Maternal deaths per 100,000 live birthsmaternal_mortalityHeadlineThe headline figure: Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.Number · up to 2 decimals0.11Cook Islands992.83Nigeriamiddle 46.651930

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

03195 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Maternal Mortality Ratio, by continent.
201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023
Africa545454545454545454545454
Americas363636363636363636363636
Asia484848484848484848484848
Europe424242424242424242424242
Oceania151515151515151515151515
All195195195195195195195195195195195195

The newest 12 of 24 years.

The same 195 countries in every year.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG)

  2. 2 · Their file

    MMEIG 2025 — maternal mortality ratio, 2023

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 11, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    24 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as maternal-mortality-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/maternal-mortalityA key for Development & Human Capital in the Country Index.

Precision

The headline is stored to 2 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From UNICEF’s SDMX data warehouse, which serves the MMEIG estimate unrounded under CC BY 3.0 IGO — rather than from WHO, whose terms are non-commercial, or the World Bank, which rounds.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 12, 2026

CC BY 3.0 IGO

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

A credit line

Source: UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG), Maternal Mortality Ratio, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG). Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2000–2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/maternal-mortality

The publisher’s own citation: UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and UNDESA). Trends in maternal mortality, 2025 round. Read from UNICEF’s data warehouse.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions

Maternal Mortality Ratio: questions and answers

What is the Maternal Mortality Ratio?

The maternal mortality ratio is the number of women who die from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth for every 100,000 live births. It is the clearest single measure of whether a health system reaches women when they need it most.

Which years of the Maternal Mortality Ratio can I download?

All 24, from 2000 to 2023, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does MMEIG rank countries on it?

No. MMEIG publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 3.0 IGO, with credit to MMEIG. The licence text is linked on this page.

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