Burkina Faso - Maternal mortality ratio

Maternal mortality ratio (modeled estimate, per 100,000 live births)

The value for Maternal mortality ratio (modeled estimate, per 100,000 live births) in Burkina Faso was 320.00 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 17 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 516.00 in 2000 and a minimum value of 320.00 in 2017.

Definition: Maternal mortality ratio is the number of women who die from pregnancy-related causes while pregnant or within 42 days of pregnancy termination per 100,000 live births. The data are estimated with a regression model using information on the proportion of maternal deaths among non-AIDS deaths in women ages 15-49, fertility, birth attendants, and GDP measured using purchasing power parities (PPPs).

Source: WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and the United Nations Population Division. Trends in Maternal Mortality: 2000 to 2017. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2019

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Year Value
2000 516.00
2001 501.00
2002 486.00
2003 471.00
2004 454.00
2005 437.00
2006 422.00
2007 410.00
2008 401.00
2009 393.00
2010 385.00
2011 377.00
2012 369.00
2013 362.00
2014 353.00
2015 343.00
2016 331.00
2017 320.00

Maternal mortality ratio (national estimate, per 100,000 live births)

Definition: Maternal mortality ratio is the number of women who die from pregnancy-related causes while pregnant or within 42 days of pregnancy termination per 100,000 live births.

Source: UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, and Demographic and Health Surveys.

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Year Value
1999 570.00
2006 334.00
2010 452.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Reproductive health