Countries by maternal mortality ratio

Nigeria had the highest maternal mortality ratio of 195 countries in 2022, at 1,016 per 100,000 live births. Cook Islands had the lowest, at 0 per 100,000 live births. The median was 53 per 100,000 live births. Source: World Health Organization.

Highest1,016Nigeria

Lowest0Cook Islands

Median53195 countries

Map of countries, 2022

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per 100,000 live births, 2022. 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, 2022

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	2022 per 100,000 live births	Change on 2021
1	Nigeria	1,016	-29.8
2	Central African Republic	841	-286.2
3	Chad	775	-93.1
4	South Sudan	704	-45.6
5	Liberia	634	-33.7
6	Somalia	622	-103.9
7	Afghanistan	551	-109.5
8	Benin	547	-36.5
9	Guinea-Bissau	539	-78
10	Guinea	500	-32.9
11	Lesotho	477	-100
12	Democratic Republic of the Congo	456	-51.2
13	Madagascar	439	-28.1
14	Burundi	412	-34.5
15	Côte d’Ivoire	409	-49.7
16	Kenya	388	-32.4
17	Mauritania	385	-40.2
18	Mali	381	-33.5
19	Sierra Leone	370	-33.6
20	Zimbabwe	368	-78.6
21	Gambia	365	-55.1
22	Togo	362	-34.3
23	Niger	361	-35.4
24	Haiti	331	-53.8
25	Nauru	317	+51.6
26	Burkina Faso	316	-37.8
27	Eritrea	301	-37.1
28	Cameroon	276	-66.2
29	Sudan	263	-42.1
30	Republic of the Congo	241	-60.6
31	Ghana	239	-24.9
32	Malawi	239	-46.7
33	Timor-Leste	235	-27.7
34	Rwanda	234	-20
35	Senegal	228	-34.6
36	Tuvalu	220	+63.6
37	Venezuela	219	-31.8
38	Gabon	216	-33.6
39	Ethiopia	207	-42.1
40	Myanmar	193	-38.4
41	Papua New Guinea	189	-34.1
42	Comoros	186	-28.6
43	Angola	185	-26
44	Uganda	184	-31.8
45	Equatorial Guinea	183	-18.6
46	Djibouti	174	-46.9
47	Marshall Islands	174	-32
48	Bolivia	164	-105.7
49	Pakistan	160	-32.8
50	Cambodia	159	-30.2
51	Tanzania	152	-10.5
52	Indonesia	148	-78.2
53	Micronesia	144	-11.6
54	Nepal	139	-34.1
55	Jamaica	138	-48.7
56	Bangladesh	131	-63.4
57	South Africa	129	-61.9
58	Namibia	127	-127.4
59	Solomon Islands	126	-26.7
60	Yemen	125	-30.9
61	Dominican Republic	124	-28.4
62	Palau	121	+11.5
63	Botswana	120	-45
64	Laos	120	-18.9
65	Thailand	112	+74.3
66	Eswatini	112	-107.8
67	Samoa	110	-5.2
68	Belize	110	-47
69	Vanuatu	105	-19.1
70	Brazil	104	-24
71	Saint Kitts and Nevis	99	-11.5
72	Guatemala	97	-28.7
73	Mozambique	93	-67.8
74	Philippines	92	-60.4
75	India	90	-65.2
76	Zambia	89	-50.7
77	Seychelles	89	+14.6
78	Brunei	88	+44.3
79	Suriname	88	-56.6
80	Kiribati	86	-35.7
81	Guyana	83	-106
82	São Tomé and Príncipe	82	-15.2
83	Peru	81	-60.9
84	Bahamas	80	-94.2
85	Paraguay	78	-62.2
86	Colombia	74	-72.3
87	Tonga	72	-3.9
88	Morocco	71	-20.8
89	Ecuador	69	-24.6
90	North Korea	67	-5
91	Algeria	64	-14.4
92	Nicaragua	61	-62.5
93	Mauritius	61	-19.4
94	Libya	60	-38.1
95	Iraq	59	-17.7
96	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	56	-49
97	Puerto Rico	55	+5.5
98	Cyprus	53	-44.7
99	Grenada	50	-2.1
100	Vietnam	49	-3.1
101	Bhutan	49	-1.4
102	Honduras	48	-40.2
103	Saint Lucia	48	-46.5
104	Mexico	45	-58.4
105	Dominica	44	-66.3
106	Kyrgyzstan	44	-26.5
107	Cape Verde	42	-14.1
108	Mongolia	41	-22.1
109	Cuba	41	-130.7
110	Panama	40	-19
111	Argentina	39	-37.2
112	El Salvador	39	-19.7
113	Tunisia	38	-26.5
114	Barbados	38	-0.5
115	Malaysia	38	-14.6
116	Antigua and Barbuda	36	+4.1
117	Jordan	35	-43.4
118	Maldives	34	-25.7
119	Singapore	34	+13.5
120	Azerbaijan	32	-23.1
121	Fiji	32	-36.2
122	Trinidad and Tobago	30	-23.8
123	Latvia	29	-12.4
124	Costa Rica	27	-16.5
125	Uzbekistan	27	-0.5
126	Armenia	27	-30.6
127	Egypt	24	-17.7
128	New Zealand	23	+15
129	San Marino	22	-12.4
130	Sri Lanka	22	-11.9
131	Georgia	22	-38
132	Iran	21	-29.6
133	Türkiye	21	+1.2
134	Syria	21	-9.3
135	United States	20	-11.2
136	Uruguay	20	-29.7
137	Moldova	19	-5.2
138	China	18	-2.6
139	Palestine	17	-11.9
140	Andorra	17	-1.2
141	Portugal	16	-2.6
142	Ukraine	16	-10.3
143	United Kingdom	15	+2.3
144	Slovenia	15	+7.1
145	Lebanon	15	-38.5
146	Canada	15	+1.1
147	Tajikistan	14	-10.3
148	Serbia	14	-12
149	Kazakhstan	14	-8.6
150	Hungary	14	-16.2
151	Oman	13	-60.7
152	Montenegro	13	-1.6
153	Russia	13	-7.6
154	Romania	13	-6.9
155	Bosnia and Herzegovina	12	-0.9
156	Chile	12	-2.7
157	Belgium	11	+3.4
158	Greece	10	+1.2
159	Malta	10	-0.1
160	Italy	10	+2.4
161	Bulgaria	10	+0.4
162	Lithuania	9	+0.1
163	Saudi Arabia	9	-3.3
164	France	9	-0.1
165	Finland	8	-0.1
166	Qatar	8	+0.9
167	Albania	8	-5.8
168	Kuwait	8	-67
169	Austria	7	+1.5
170	Estonia	7	-1.2
171	Ireland	7	+1.1
172	South Korea	7	+1.4
173	Luxembourg	6	+0.1
174	Denmark	6	-2.1
175	Croatia	6	-6.8
176	Slovakia	5	-6.8
177	Japan	5	+1.2
178	Monaco	5	-0.2
179	Iceland	5	-0.2
180	Sweden	5	-0.1
181	Bahrain	5	-4.6
182	Turkmenistan	5	-0.9
183	Netherlands	4	-0.5
184	Germany	4	-0.4
185	Spain	4	+0.3
186	Switzerland	4	-0.6
187	Australia	4	-0.7
188	Israel	3	-0.2
189	Czechia	3	-1.4
190	Norway	3	+1.1
191	North Macedonia	3	-9.3
192	United Arab Emirates	2	-4
193	Poland	2	-0.8
194	Belarus	1	-0.7
195	Cook Islands	0	+0.2

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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_2022,
  author = {{World Health Organization}},
  title = {{Maternal mortality ratio (per 100 000 live births) (MDG\_0000000026): Countries by maternal mortality ratio, 2022}},
  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=2022. 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?

Nigeria, with 1,016 per 100,000 live births in 2022, according to World Health Organization.

Which country has the lowest maternal mortality ratio?

Cook Islands, with 0 per 100,000 live births in 2022.

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