El Salvador - Maternal mortality

Number of maternal deaths

Number of maternal deaths in El Salvador was 54.00 as of 2017. Its highest value over the past 17 years was 110.00 in 2001, while its lowest value was 54.00 in 2017.

Definition: A maternal death refers to the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes.

Source: WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and the United Nations Population Division. Trends in Maternal Mortality: 2000 to 2017. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2019

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Year Value
2000 110.00
2001 110.00
2002 93.00
2003 88.00
2004 84.00
2005 80.00
2006 76.00
2007 73.00
2008 71.00
2009 69.00
2010 66.00
2011 64.00
2012 62.00
2013 60.00
2014 59.00
2015 57.00
2016 56.00
2017 54.00

Lifetime risk of maternal death (1 in: rate varies by country)

The value for Lifetime risk of maternal death (1 in: rate varies by country) in El Salvador was 960.00 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 17 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 960.00 in 2017 and a minimum value of 410.00 in 2000.

Definition: Life time risk of maternal death is the probability that a 15-year-old female will die eventually from a maternal cause assuming that current levels of fertility and mortality (including maternal mortality) do not change in the future, taking into account competing causes of death.

Source: WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and the United Nations Population Division. Trends in Maternal Mortality: 2000 to 2017. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2019

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Year Value
2000 410.00
2001 420.00
2002 480.00
2003 520.00
2004 550.00
2005 580.00
2006 620.00
2007 650.00
2008 680.00
2009 700.00
2010 740.00
2011 780.00
2012 810.00
2013 840.00
2014 880.00
2015 910.00
2016 930.00
2017 960.00

Lifetime risk of maternal death (%)

Lifetime risk of maternal death (%) in El Salvador was 0.104 as of 2017. Its highest value over the past 17 years was 0.242 in 2000, while its lowest value was 0.104 in 2017.

Definition: Life time risk of maternal death is the probability that a 15-year-old female will die eventually from a maternal cause assuming that current levels of fertility and mortality (including maternal mortality) do not change in the future, taking into account competing causes of death.

Source: WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and the United Nations Population Division. Trends in Maternal Mortality: 2000 to 2017. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2019

See also:

Year Value
2000 0.242
2001 0.237
2002 0.207
2003 0.194
2004 0.182
2005 0.173
2006 0.162
2007 0.154
2008 0.147
2009 0.143
2010 0.134
2011 0.129
2012 0.124
2013 0.118
2014 0.114
2015 0.110
2016 0.107
2017 0.104

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Reproductive health