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Botswana vs Equatorial Guinea: Maternal mortality ratio

Botswana
185.9 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Equatorial Guinea
212.33 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Botswana rank
49th
Equatorial Guinea rank
46th

Maternal mortality ratio over time

  • Botswana
  • Equatorial Guinea
02505007501.0k1.2k198520022020

How they compare

Equatorial Guinea currently reports 212.33 deaths per 100,000 live births against 185.9 deaths per 100,000 live births in Botswana, a difference of 26.43 deaths per 100,000 live births.

That makes Equatorial Guinea's figure about 1.1 times Botswana's.

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

Botswana ranks 49th and Equatorial Guinea ranks 46th 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.