Kuwait vs Luxembourg: Maternal mortality ratio

Kuwait
7.17 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Luxembourg
6.49 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Kuwait rank
158th
Luxembourg rank
161st

Maternal mortality ratio over time

  • Kuwait
  • Luxembourg
0255075100196719932020

How they compare

Kuwait currently reports 7.17 deaths per 100,000 live births against 6.49 deaths per 100,000 live births in Luxembourg, a difference of 0.6854 deaths per 100,000 live births.

That makes Kuwait's figure about 1.1 times Luxembourg's.

The two have swapped places 15 times across 42 shared years of data; in 1972 it was Luxembourg ahead.

Kuwait ranks 158th and Luxembourg ranks 161st 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.