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Madagascar vs Zimbabwe: Maternal mortality ratio

Madagascar
391.52 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Zimbabwe
356.76 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Madagascar rank
23rd
Zimbabwe rank
25th

Maternal mortality ratio over time

  • Madagascar
  • Zimbabwe
0200400600800198520022020

How they compare

Madagascar currently reports 391.52 deaths per 100,000 live births against 356.76 deaths per 100,000 live births in Zimbabwe, a difference of 34.76 deaths per 100,000 live births.

That makes Madagascar's figure about 1.1 times Zimbabwe's.

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

Madagascar ranks 23rd and Zimbabwe ranks 25th 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.