A woman dies every two minutes from pregnancy complications, despite a drop in maternal mortality rates by a third in the past 20 years. This has been revealed by the report of the United Nations. According to the report, between the years 2000 and 2015, there was a tremendous decline in the cases of death of women.
The death rate remained stable between 2016 and 2020. In the year 2000, 339 women were dying during the birth of one lakh children. In 2020, this figure has come down to 223.
There were 2.87 lakh maternal deaths worldwide in 2020, which is only 7% less than 3.09 lakh in 2016. In 2020, 24 thousand of women died in India. This is the second-largest figure in the world. In 2020, the highest number of 82 thousand deaths occurred in Nigeria. The good thing is that between 2000 and 2020, pregnancy-related deaths in India also decreased by 73.5%.
Maternal mortality in Belarus decreased by a record 95.5%. On the other hand, the condition of Venezuela is very bad. Between 2016 and 2020, maternal mortality decreased in only two of the eight UN regions, by 35% in Australia and New Zealand, and 16% in Central-South Asia. The rate rises to 17% in Europe and North America.
According to the report, about 70 percent of deaths in 2020 occurred in sub-Saharan Africa, where the rate is 136 times higher than in Australia and New Zealand. In Afghanistan, people in the Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen are facing severe humanitarian crises.