Statizoid

Lesotho vs Liberia: Maternal mortality ratio

Lesotho
566.21 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Liberia
652.34 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Lesotho rank
9th
Liberia rank
6th

Maternal mortality ratio over time

  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
5001.0k1.5k198520022020

How they compare

Liberia currently reports 652.34 deaths per 100,000 live births against 566.21 deaths per 100,000 live births in Lesotho, a difference of 86.13 deaths per 100,000 live births.

That makes Liberia's figure about 1.2 times Lesotho's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 36 shared years of data; in 1985 it was Liberia ahead.

Lesotho ranks 9th and Liberia ranks 6th of 189 countries.

Individual pages

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.