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Australia vs Seychelles: Maternal mortality ratio

Australia
2.94 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Seychelles
3.33 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Australia rank
182nd
Seychelles rank
180th

Maternal mortality ratio over time

  • Australia
  • Seychelles
0200400600187519472020

How they compare

Seychelles currently reports 3.33 deaths per 100,000 live births against 2.94 deaths per 100,000 live births in Australia, a difference of 0.3917 deaths per 100,000 live births.

That makes Seychelles's figure about 1.1 times Australia's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 36 shared years of data; in 1985 it was Seychelles ahead.

Australia ranks 182nd and Seychelles ranks 180th of 189 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Maternal mortality ratio
Unit
deaths per 100,000 live births
Source
UN MMEIG (2023) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
189 places, 8,868 data points, 1751–2020
Last refreshed

The estimated number of women who die from maternal conditions per 100,000 live births, based on data from death certificates, large-scale surveys, and statistical modeling.