{"id":31811,"date":"2025-04-07T10:34:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T05:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31811"},"modified":"2025-04-16T14:59:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:29:40","slug":"trends-in-maternal-mortality-2000-2023-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/trends-in-maternal-mortality-2000-2023-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends in Maternal Mortality 2000-2023 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Trends in Maternal Mortality 2000-2023 Report Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>In 2023, India accounted for the second highest maternal deaths globally, tied with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with 19,000 and second only to Nigeria, according to the Trends in Maternal Mortality 2000-2023 report released recently.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Trends in Maternal Mortality 2000-2023 Report<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a new report from the <strong>United Nations Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG)<\/strong>, <strong>comprising WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA<\/strong>, the <strong>World Bank Group<\/strong>, and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (<strong>UNDESA\/population division).\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It presents the most up-to-date, internationally comparable estimates of maternal deaths at global, regional, and country levels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Highlights of the Report<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In <strong>2023, <\/strong>an estimated<strong> 260,000 maternal deaths <\/strong>occurred worldwide, equivalent to <strong>712 deaths each day.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This marks a <strong>40% reduction<\/strong> in maternal mortality <strong>since 2000<\/strong>, reflecting sustained global efforts to improve access to essential health services.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>F<strong>or the first time, no country<\/strong> was estimated to <strong>have an extremely high maternal mortality ratio (<\/strong>MMR), and no region was classified as having a very high MMR.<\/li>\n<li>Despite these gains, disparities remain stark. <strong>Sub-Saharan Africa <\/strong>accounted for <strong>70% of global maternal deaths<\/strong>, with <strong>Central and Southern Asia<\/strong> contributing <strong>nearly 17%.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In 2023, 37 countries were classified as being in conflict or experiencing institutional or social fragility, yet they accounted for 64% of global maternal deaths.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nigeria <\/strong>had the <strong>highest number of maternal deaths<\/strong> and accounted for more than a quarter <strong>(28.7 percent)<\/strong> of all estimated global maternal deaths in 2023, with approximately 75,000 deaths.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Only three other countries <\/strong>had <strong>more than 10,000 maternal deaths <\/strong>in 2023\u2014<strong>India, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Pakistan <\/strong>(11,000).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>India and DRC accounted for 7.2 percent each, while Pakistan accounted for 4.1 percent of global maternal deaths.<\/li>\n<li>Together, <strong>these four countries accounted for almost half (47 percent)<\/strong> of all maternal deaths globally in 2023.<\/li>\n<li><strong>China<\/strong>, the only other country on the planet comparable to India by population, registered <strong>just 1,400 maternal deaths in 2023.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The statistics reveal that <strong>India\u2019s maternal mortality rate<\/strong> (MMR)\u2014or the rate at which women per lakh die due to childbirth or pregnancy-related issues\u2014was <strong>362 in 2000and came down to 80 in 2023, <\/strong>marking a <strong>decline of 78 percent<\/strong> over the period.<\/li>\n<li>The report also provides the <strong>first global account of the COVID-19 pandemic\u2019s impact<\/strong> on maternal survival.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 2021,<\/strong> when the second wave of COVID was at its peak in most parts of the world, an estimated <strong>40,000 more women died due to pregnancy or childbirth, <\/strong>taking the total number of deaths that year to 3,22,000 from 282,000 the previous year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Haemorrhage <\/strong>is a direct obstetric cause of death and remains the l<strong>eading cause of maternal mortality globally.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Trends in Maternal Mortality 2000-2023 Report FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Which global body published the &#8220;Trends in Maternal Mortality 2000\u20132023&#8221; report?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. United Nations Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What was the estimated number of maternal deaths worldwide in 2023?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. 260,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which country had the highest number of maternal deaths in 2023?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Nigeria<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/health\/india-saw-52-maternal-deaths-each-day-in-2023-second-highest-after-nigeria-un-report\/2580367\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trends in Maternal Mortality 2000\u20132023 Report provides the latest global, regional, and national estimates of maternal deaths, offering key health insights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}