Barbados vs Tunisia: Maternal mortality ratio

Barbados
39.11 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Tunisia
36.63 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Barbados rank
107th
Tunisia rank
109th

Maternal mortality ratio over time

  • Barbados
  • Tunisia
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How they compare

Barbados currently reports 39.11 deaths per 100,000 live births against 36.63 deaths per 100,000 live births in Tunisia, a difference of 2.48 deaths per 100,000 live births.

That makes Barbados's figure about 1.1 times Tunisia's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 36 shared years of data; in 1985 it was Tunisia ahead.

Barbados ranks 107th and Tunisia ranks 109th 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.