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Denmark vs Italy: Maternal mortality ratio

Denmark
4.66 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Italy
4.59 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Denmark rank
171st
Italy rank
172nd

Maternal mortality ratio over time

  • Denmark
  • Italy
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How they compare

Denmark currently reports 4.66 deaths per 100,000 live births against 4.59 deaths per 100,000 live births in Italy, a difference of 0.0668 deaths per 100,000 live births.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 70 shared years of data; in 1951 it was Italy ahead.

Denmark ranks 171st and Italy ranks 172nd 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
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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.