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Eritrea vs Zimbabwe: Maternal mortality ratio

Eritrea
321.55 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Zimbabwe
356.76 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Eritrea rank
28th
Zimbabwe rank
25th

Maternal mortality ratio over time

  • Eritrea
  • Zimbabwe
2505007501.0k1.2k1.5k198520022020

How they compare

Zimbabwe currently reports 356.76 deaths per 100,000 live births against 321.55 deaths per 100,000 live births in Eritrea, a difference of 35.21 deaths per 100,000 live births.

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

The two have swapped places 1 time across 36 shared years of data; in 1985 it was Eritrea ahead.

Eritrea ranks 28th and Zimbabwe ranks 25th 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.