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Kenya vs Lesotho: Maternal mortality ratio

Kenya
529.96 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Lesotho
566.21 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Kenya rank
12th
Lesotho rank
9th

Maternal mortality ratio over time

  • Kenya
  • Lesotho
02505007501.0k198520022020

How they compare

Lesotho currently reports 566.21 deaths per 100,000 live births against 529.96 deaths per 100,000 live births in Kenya, a difference of 36.24 deaths per 100,000 live births.

That makes Lesotho's figure about 1.1 times Kenya's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 36 shared years of data; in 1985 it was Kenya ahead.

Kenya ranks 12th and Lesotho ranks 9th 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.