Cameroon - Maternal mortality ratio

Maternal mortality ratio (modeled estimate, per 100,000 live births)

The value for Maternal mortality ratio (modeled estimate, per 100,000 live births) in Cameroon was 529.00 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 17 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 886.00 in 2000 and a minimum value of 529.00 in 2017.

Definition: Maternal mortality ratio is the number of women who die from pregnancy-related causes while pregnant or within 42 days of pregnancy termination per 100,000 live births. The data are estimated with a regression model using information on the proportion of maternal deaths among non-AIDS deaths in women ages 15-49, fertility, birth attendants, and GDP measured using purchasing power parities (PPPs).

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 886.00
2001 844.00
2002 803.00
2003 771.00
2004 732.00
2005 692.00
2006 658.00
2007 635.00
2008 618.00
2009 606.00
2010 597.00
2011 589.00
2012 580.00
2013 567.00
2014 564.00
2015 554.00
2016 538.00
2017 529.00

Maternal mortality ratio (national estimate, per 100,000 live births)

Definition: Maternal mortality ratio is the number of women who die from pregnancy-related causes while pregnant or within 42 days of pregnancy termination per 100,000 live births.

Source: UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, and Demographic and Health Surveys.

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Year Value
1998 863.00
2004 778.00
2011 782.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Reproductive health