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Chad vs Nigeria: Maternal mortality ratio

Chad
1,063 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Nigeria
1,047 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Chad rank
2nd
Nigeria rank
3rd

Maternal mortality ratio over time

  • Chad
  • Nigeria
05001.0k1.5k198520022020

How they compare

Chad currently reports 1,063 deaths per 100,000 live births against 1,047 deaths per 100,000 live births in Nigeria, a difference of 16.25 deaths per 100,000 live births.

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

Chad ranks 2nd and Nigeria ranks 3rd 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.