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Denmark vs Sweden: Maternal mortality ratio

Denmark
4.66 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Sweden
4.51 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Denmark rank
171st
Sweden rank
174th

Maternal mortality ratio over time

  • Denmark
  • Sweden
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How they compare

Denmark currently reports 4.66 deaths per 100,000 live births against 4.51 deaths per 100,000 live births in Sweden, a difference of 0.1499 deaths per 100,000 live births.

The two have swapped places 25 times across 89 shared years of data; in 1921 it was Sweden ahead.

Denmark ranks 171st and Sweden ranks 174th 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.