What is the difference in reported maternal mortality rate between Maldives and Nicaragua?

0.0605 deaths per 100,000 people, with Nicaragua ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Maldives and Nicaragua?

15 years are reported by both, from 2005 to 2021.

Where does this data come from?

WHO Mortality Database (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data, published as Reported maternal mortality rate. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Maldives vs Nicaragua: Reported maternal mortality rate

Maldives

0.453 deaths per 100,000 people

in 2021

Nicaragua

0.5135 deaths per 100,000 people

in 2022

Maldives rank

25th

Nicaragua rank

23rd

Reported maternal mortality rate over time

Maldives
Nicaragua

How they compare

Nicaragua currently reports 0.5135 deaths per 100,000 people against 0.453 deaths per 100,000 people in Maldives, a difference of 0.0605 deaths per 100,000 people.

That makes Nicaragua's figure about 1.1 times Maldives's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 15 shared years of data; in 2005 it was Nicaragua ahead.

Maldives ranks 25th and Nicaragua ranks 23rd of 111 countries.

Nicaragua has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Maldives	Nicaragua	Difference	Ahead
2000s	0.5997 deaths per 100,000 people	1.41 deaths per 100,000 people	0.8055 deaths per 100,000 people	Nicaragua
2010s	0.4819 deaths per 100,000 people	0.9053 deaths per 100,000 people	0.4234 deaths per 100,000 people	Nicaragua
2020s	0.3159 deaths per 100,000 people	0.5729 deaths per 100,000 people	0.2569 deaths per 100,000 people	Nicaragua

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher reported maternal mortality rate, Maldives or Nicaragua?: Nicaragua, at 0.5135 deaths per 100,000 people against 0.453 deaths per 100,000 people in Maldives as of 2022.
What is the difference in reported maternal mortality rate between Maldives and Nicaragua?: 0.0605 deaths per 100,000 people, with Nicaragua ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Maldives and Nicaragua?: 15 years are reported by both, from 2005 to 2021.
How do Maldives and Nicaragua rank globally for reported maternal mortality rate?: Maldives ranks 25th and Nicaragua ranks 23rd of 111 countries.
Where does this data come from?: WHO Mortality Database (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data, published as Reported maternal mortality rate. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Maldives vs Nicaragua: Reported maternal mortality rate. Statizoid, drawing on WHO Mortality Database (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. Retrieved 29 August 2026, from https://health.statizoid.com/compare/maternal-mortality-rate-who-mdb/maldives/nicaragua/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://health.statizoid.com/compare/maternal-mortality-rate-who-mdb/maldives/nicaragua/">Maldives vs Nicaragua: Reported maternal mortality rate</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator: Reported maternal mortality rate
Unit: deaths per 100,000 people
Source: WHO Mortality Database (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 111 places, 4,885 data points, 1950–2023
Last refreshed: 28 August 2026

Reported deaths from maternal conditions in both sexes in those aged all ages per 100,000 people.