Netherlands vs Spain: Maternal mortality ratio

Netherlands
4.31 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Spain
3.44 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 2020
Netherlands rank
177th
Spain rank
178th

Maternal mortality ratio over time

  • Netherlands
  • Spain
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How they compare

Netherlands currently reports 4.31 deaths per 100,000 live births against 3.44 deaths per 100,000 live births in Spain, a difference of 0.8705 deaths per 100,000 live births.

That makes Netherlands's figure about 1.3 times Spain's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 70 shared years of data; in 1951 it was Spain ahead.

Netherlands ranks 177th and Spain ranks 178th 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.