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Congo vs Eritrea: Maternal mortality ratio

Congo
282.39 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Eritrea
321.55 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Congo rank
30th
Eritrea rank
28th

Maternal mortality ratio over time

  • Congo
  • Eritrea
5001.0k1.5k198520022020

How they compare

Eritrea currently reports 321.55 deaths per 100,000 live births against 282.39 deaths per 100,000 live births in Congo, a difference of 39.16 deaths per 100,000 live births.

That makes Eritrea's figure about 1.1 times Congo's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 36 shared years of data; in 1985 it was Eritrea ahead.

Congo ranks 30th and Eritrea ranks 28th 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.