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Maternal mortality

Deaths per 100,000 live births. Poland 300→2 — a steeper fall than [infant-mortality].

per 100,000 population

The file

Deaths during pregnancy, childbirth or within 42 days, per 100,000 live births. Modeled long run from 2000; earlier years sparse for some geos.

The indicator

SH.STA.MMRT is not the same scale as Infant mortality or Under-5 mortality — read the unit. Falls when obstetric care and access improve.

What the numbers show

Poland from hundreds per 100k births to single digits; Germany and the US are low but not identical. Pair with Infant mortality, Fertility and Health expenditure.

Source
World Bank Open Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Last publisher update
2026-07-13
Retrieved
2026-09-20
Warehouse version
v21

Cite

Longseries, “Maternal mortality”. World Bank Open Data (SH.STA.MMRT), 1985–2023, Brazil, China, Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United States, World. Retrieved 2026-09-20. CC BY 4.0. Warehouse v21. https://longseries.com/en/d/maternal-mortality/

No revisions in this copy yet — cron will append them when a publisher changes a past value.

Latest values

Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.

15 places — sorted by latest value
CountryYearValue
World2023197.0
India202380.0
Brazil202367.0
United States202317.0
China202316.0
United Kingdom20238.0
France20237.0
Italy20236.0
The rest of the places (7)
Remaining 7 places
Germany20234.0
Netherlands20234.0
Sweden20234.0
Czechia20233.0
Spain20233.0
Japan20233.0
Poland20232.0

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