Countries by maternal mortality ratio

South Sudan had the highest maternal mortality ratio of 195 countries in 2015, at 1,436 per 100,000 live births. Cook Islands had the lowest, at 0 per 100,000 live births. The median was 52 per 100,000 live births. Source: World Health Organization.

Highest1,436South Sudan

Lowest0Cook Islands

Median52195 countries

Map of countries, 2015

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per 100,000 live births, 2015. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: World Health Organization, Maternal mortality ratio (per 100 000 live births) (MDG_0000000026). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Top 40 countries, 2015

per 100,000 live births. Source: World Health Organization, Maternal mortality ratio (per 100 000 live births) (MDG_0000000026). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2015 per 100,000 live births	Change on 2014
1	South Sudan	1,436	+220
2	Chad	1,176	-21.8
3	Nigeria	1,168	+12.3
4	Central African Republic	981	-53.9
5	Liberia	784	-16.9
6	Somalia	784	-32.1
7	Afghanistan	741	-13.4
8	Sierra Leone	730	-90.7
9	Guinea	642	-22.2
10	Guinea-Bissau	631	-31.3
11	Benin	606	+1.2
12	Lesotho	594	-113.3
13	Democratic Republic of the Congo	545	-12.6
14	Gambia	527	-34
15	Burundi	525	-8.1
16	Côte d’Ivoire	505	-16.9
17	Mali	490	-17.1
18	Madagascar	474	-3.3
19	Niger	473	-24.2
20	Togo	470	-19.6
21	Mauritania	469	-14.5
22	Kenya	453	-18.5
23	Tanzania	433	-20.4
24	Zimbabwe	428	-39.9
25	Cameroon	417	-22.5
26	Eritrea	413	-16.9
27	Ethiopia	401	-43.8
28	Haiti	364	-9
29	Senegal	357	-16.2
30	Malawi	354	-13.5
31	Burkina Faso	328	-16.3
32	Ghana	310	-6.5
33	Namibia	307	-62.4
34	Timor-Leste	305	-22.5
35	Uganda	299	-12.2
36	Sudan	298	-10.9
37	Rwanda	292	-9.5
38	Republic of the Congo	284	-18.3
39	Eswatini	283	-85.9
40	Nauru	253	+13.2
41	Angola	249	-12.4
42	Gabon	239	-34
43	Comoros	237	-10.4
44	Nepal	236	-9
45	Equatorial Guinea	222	-4.9
46	Myanmar	222	-6
47	Papua New Guinea	221	-11.1
48	Djibouti	210	-1.4
49	Bangladesh	204	-13.2
50	Pakistan	202	-8.2
51	Indonesia	190	-8.2
52	Marshall Islands	184	-15.7
53	Mozambique	182	+2.7
54	Micronesia	182	+4.4
55	Laos	180	-13.2
56	Tuvalu	169	+0.8
57	Bolivia	166	-4.6
58	Cambodia	166	-6.1
59	Zambia	154	-19.3
60	South Africa	150	-11.7
61	Solomon Islands	146	-0.8
62	Botswana	141	-71
63	Venezuela	136	+3.7
64	Yemen	135	+0.6
65	India	129	-8.4
66	São Tomé and Príncipe	128	-10.6
67	Guyana	117	-3.4
68	Suriname	115	-4.4
69	Guatemala	112	+1.4
70	Vanuatu	109	-1.1
71	Samoa	108	+1.5
72	Philippines	104	-2.1
73	Dominican Republic	102	+7
74	Jamaica	100	+0.4
75	Morocco	100	-6.1
76	Kiribati	90	-1
77	Iraq	86	-3.6
78	Bahamas	83	+5.1
79	Nicaragua	81	-1.9
80	Algeria	79	-1
81	Tonga	79	-0.8
82	Palau	79	+0.8
83	Saint Kitts and Nevis	76	-5.6
84	Libya	76	-1.1
85	North Korea	72	-1.1
86	Peru	71	-1.5
87	Colombia	70	-0.5
88	Bhutan	68	-5
89	Ecuador	64	-0.7
90	Paraguay	64	-6.7
91	Brazil	63	-0.4
92	Dominica	63	+9.9
93	Mauritius	61	+1.1
94	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	59	-4.5
95	Kyrgyzstan	58	-4.2
96	Vietnam	58	-1.4
97	Honduras	57	-2.6
98	Mongolia	52	-4.4
99	Trinidad and Tobago	50	+0.6
100	Panama	48	-0.9
101	Belize	47	+3.5
102	Seychelles	46	+0.6
103	Cape Verde	46	-1.5
104	Grenada	46	+1.3
105	Saint Lucia	46	-3.4
106	Mexico	43	-0.5
107	El Salvador	43	+2.2
108	Cuba	41	-0.7
109	Jordan	41	-1.6
110	Maldives	41	-1.8
111	Tunisia	40	-1.5
112	Brunei	39	-0.1
113	Argentina	39	-4.8
114	Fiji	37	-0.5
115	Barbados	37	-1.5
116	Thailand	34	-0.4
117	Uzbekistan	31	-0.6
118	Malaysia	30	+0.2
119	Antigua and Barbuda	30	-2.2
120	Georgia	30	-2.2
121	China	26	-2
122	Palestine	26	-3.8
123	Costa Rica	26	-1
124	Armenia	25	-0.5
125	Syria	24	-0.6
126	Egypt	24	-1.5
127	Iran	22	-1
128	Latvia	22	-0.2
129	Sri Lanka	22	-0.8
130	Azerbaijan	21	-1.3
131	Moldova	20	+0.8
132	Tajikistan	20	-0.3
133	Türkiye	19	-0.4
134	Romania	18	-0.2
135	Ukraine	17	-1.4
136	United States	17	+0.5
137	Bahrain	16	0
138	Uruguay	16	-0.3
139	Puerto Rico	15	-0.8
140	Lebanon	15	+0.7
141	Russia	15	-1
142	Oman	15	-0.2
143	Chile	14	-1.3
144	Hungary	13	+0.1
145	Serbia	13	+0.3
146	Luxembourg	13	-0.1
147	Kazakhstan	13	-0.9
148	Canada	11	-0.2
149	Cyprus	11	+0.4
150	Portugal	11	+0.3
151	Andorra	10	+0.2
152	Lithuania	10	+0.8
153	United Kingdom	9	+0.2
154	Albania	9	-0.6
155	France	9	-0
156	Singapore	8	-0.4
157	New Zealand	8	+0.6
158	Saudi Arabia	8	-0.3
159	Kuwait	8	-0.2
160	Italy	8	+0.1
161	San Marino	8	-0.1
162	Bulgaria	7	-0.1
163	Finland	7	+0.3
164	Malta	7	-1.1
165	Montenegro	7	+0.2
166	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7	-0.1
167	Austria	7	0
168	South Korea	6	-0.2
169	Estonia	6	-0.4
170	Switzerland	6	-0.1
171	Turkmenistan	6	-0.4
172	Australia	6	-0.1
173	Qatar	6	-0.4
174	Monaco	5	0
175	Slovenia	5	-0.4
176	Netherlands	5	-0.3
177	Belgium	5	-0.1
178	Japan	5	-0.2
179	Denmark	5	-0.4
180	Greece	5	+0.5
181	Ireland	5	-0
182	Slovakia	5	-0.2
183	Germany	5	0
184	Sweden	5	-0.4
185	Iceland	4	-0.2
186	Croatia	4	-0.4
187	North Macedonia	4	-0.4
188	Spain	4	-0.1
189	United Arab Emirates	3	-0.1
190	Czechia	3	-0.1
191	Israel	3	-0.4
192	Norway	2	-0.2
193	Poland	2	-0.1
194	Belarus	1	-0.2
195	Cook Islands	0	0

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About this ranking

Deaths of women from causes related to pregnancy or its management, during pregnancy or within 42 days of its end, per 100,000 live births in the year (SDG indicator 3.1.1). Accidental and incidental causes are excluded. Estimates of the UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and UN DESA), published by WHO.

Modelled estimates that adjust registered deaths for misclassification and under-reporting, so they differ from national vital statistics, often by a wide margin. Values are served with every decimal WHO publishes. WHO revises these series, past years included, when new national reports or estimates come in, so values can change between retrievals.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

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World Health Organization, data.who.int. Maternal mortality ratio (per 100 000 live births) (MDG_0000000026) [Indicator]. https://data.who.int/indicators/i/C071DCB/AC597B1 (Accessed on 2026-10-12). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. No changes made to source values. WHO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.

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@misc{world_countries_by_maternal_mortality_2015,
  author = {{World Health Organization}},
  title = {{Maternal mortality ratio (per 100 000 live births) (MDG\_0000000026): Countries by maternal mortality ratio, 2015}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://data.who.int/indicators/i/C071DCB/AC597B1},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/maternal-mortality-ratio/countries?period=2015. Publisher attribution: World Health Organization, data.who.int. Maternal mortality ratio (per 100 000 live births) (MDG\_0000000026) [Indicator]. https://data.who.int/indicators/i/C071DCB/AC597B1 (Accessed on 2026-10-12). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. No changes made to source values. WHO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.},
}

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Which country has the highest maternal mortality ratio?

South Sudan, with 1,436 per 100,000 live births in 2015, according to World Health Organization.

Which country has the lowest maternal mortality ratio?

Cook Islands, with 0 per 100,000 live births in 2015.

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