Canada vs Romania: Maternal mortality ratio

Canada
11.01 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Romania
10.07 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Canada rank
144th
Romania rank
146th

Maternal mortality ratio over time

  • Canada
  • Romania
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How they compare

Canada currently reports 11.01 deaths per 100,000 live births against 10.07 deaths per 100,000 live births in Romania, a difference of 0.9421 deaths per 100,000 live births.

That makes Canada's figure about 1.1 times Romania's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 61 shared years of data; in 1959 it was Romania ahead.

Canada ranks 144th and Romania ranks 146th 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.