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Guyana vs Tonga: Maternal mortality ratio

Guyana
111.94 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Tonga
125.64 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Guyana rank
65th
Tonga rank
62nd

Maternal mortality ratio over time

  • Guyana
  • Tonga
100150200250300198520022020

How they compare

Tonga currently reports 125.64 deaths per 100,000 live births against 111.94 deaths per 100,000 live births in Guyana, a difference of 13.7 deaths per 100,000 live births.

That makes Tonga's figure about 1.1 times Guyana's.

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

Guyana ranks 65th and Tonga ranks 62nd 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.