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Iceland vs Malta: Maternal mortality ratio

Iceland
2.65 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Malta
2.89 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Iceland rank
185th
Malta rank
183rd

Maternal mortality ratio over time

  • Iceland
  • Malta
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How they compare

Malta currently reports 2.89 deaths per 100,000 live births against 2.65 deaths per 100,000 live births in Iceland, a difference of 0.2384 deaths per 100,000 live births.

That makes Malta's figure about 1.1 times Iceland's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 39 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Malta ahead.

Iceland ranks 185th and Malta ranks 183rd 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.