List of countries by maternal mortality rate

Maternal death or 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 rate, on the other hand, is the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 births. The maternal mortality is used as a criterion for the quality of medical care in a country.

List

Countries by maternal mortality rate in the year 2015. All data is from the World Bank.

Rank	Country	Maternal mortality ratio per 100,000 live births
1	Finland	3
	Greece	3
	Iceland	3
	Poland	3
5	Italy	4
	Kuwait	4
	Austria	4
	Sweden	4
	Czech Republic	4
	Belarus	4
11	Israel	5
	Japan	5
	Norway	5
	Switzerland	5
	Spain	5
16	Australia	6
	Denmark	6
	Germany	6
	Slovakia	6
	United Arab Emirates	6
21	Belgium	7
	Canada	7
	Montenegro	7
	Netherlands	7
	Cyprus	7
26	France	8
	Ireland	8
	Croatia	8
	Macedonia	8
30	Estonia	9
	Libya	9
	Malta	9
	Slovenia	9
	United Kingdom	9
35	Lithuania	10
	Luxembourg	10
	Portugal	10
	Singapore	10
39	Bosnia and Herzegovina	11
	Bulgaria	11
	New Zealand	11
	South Korea	11
43	Kazakhstan	12
	Saudi Arabia	12
45	Qatar	13
46	Puerto Rico (US)	14
	United States	14
48	Bahrain	15
	Lebanon	15
	Uruguay	15
51	Turkey	16
52	Oman	17
	Serbia	17
	Hungary	17
55	Latvia	18
56	Thailand	20
57	Chile	22
58	Brunei	23
	Moldova	23
60	Ukraine	24
61	Armenia	25
	Azerbaijan	25
	Costa Rica	25
	Iran	25
	Russia	25
66	Barbados	27
	China	27
	Grenada	27
69	Belize	28
70	Albania	29
71	Fiji	30
	Sri Lanka	30
73	Romania	31
74	Tajikistan	32
75	Egypt	33
76	Georgia	36
	Uzbekistan	36
78	Mexico	38
79	Cuba	39
80	Malaysia	40
81	Cape Verde	42
	Turkmenistan	42
83	Brazil	44
	Mongolia	44
85	Palestine	45
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	45
87	Saint Lucia	48
88	Iraq	50
89	Samoa	51
90	Argentina	52
91	Mauritius	53
92	El Salvador	54
	Vietnam	54
94	Jordan	58
95	Tunisia	62
96	Trinidad and Tobago	63
97	Ecuador	64
	Colombia	64
99	Maldives	68
	Peru	68
	Syria	68
102	Kyrgyzstan	76
103	Vanuatu	78
104	Bahamas	80
105	North Korea	82
106	Guatemala	88
107	Jamaica	89
108	Kiribati	90
109	Dominican Republic	92
110	Panama	94
111	Venezuela	95
112	Federated States of Micronesia	100
113	Philippines	114
	Solomon Islands	114
115	Morocco	121
116	Tonga	124
117	Indonesia	126
118	Botswana	129
	Honduras	129
120	Paraguay	132
121	South Africa	138
122	Algeria	140
123	Bhutan	148
124	Nicaragua	150
125	Suriname	155
126	São Tomé and Príncipe	156
127	Cambodia	161
128	India	174
129	Bangladesh	176
130	Pakistan	178
	Myanmar	178
132	Laos	197
133	Bolivia	206
134	Timor-Leste	215
	Papua New Guinea	215
136	Zambia	224
137	Guyana	229
	Djibouti	229
139	Nepal	258
140	Namibia	265
141	Rwanda	290
142	Gabon	291
143	Sudan	311
144	Senegal	315
145	Ghana	319
146	Comoros	335
147	Equatorial Guinea	342
148	Uganda	343
149	Ethiopia	353
	Madagascar	353
151	Haiti	359
152	Togo	368
153	Burkina Faso	371
154	Yemen	385
155	Eswatini (Swaziland)	389
156	Afghanistan	396
157	Tanzania	398
158	Benin	405
159	Republic of the Congo	442
160	Zimbabwe	443
161	Angola	477
162	Lesotho	487
163	Mozambique	489
164	Eritrea	501
165	Kenya	510
166	Guinea-Bissau	549
167	Niger	553
168	Mali	587
169	Cameroon	596
170	Mauritania	602
171	Malawi	634
172	Ivory Coast	645
173	Guinea	679
174	Democratic Republic of the Congo	693
175	Gambia	706
176	Burundi	712
177	Liberia	725
178	Somalia	732
179	South Sudan	789
180	Nigeria	814
181	Chad	856
182	Central African Republic	882
183	Sierra Leone	1,360
	World	216