Appendix
3 - Maternal mortality - international comparisons
Numbers and rates of maternal mortality
|
Country
|
Year
|
Maternal deaths per 100,000
live births
|
Estimated number of maternal
deaths, 1990
|
Lifetime risk of maternal
death, 1990
|
|
Australia
|
1994
|
7.0*
|
25
|
1 in 4,900
|
|
Canada
|
1994
|
3.6
|
25
|
1 in 7,700
|
|
Denmark
|
1993
|
7.4
|
5
|
1 in 5,800
|
|
France
|
1994
|
11.7
|
110
|
1 in 3,100
|
|
Germany
|
1994
|
5.2
|
190
|
1 in 2,700
|
|
Greece
|
1994
|
1.9
|
10
|
1 in 5,600
|
|
Hong Kong
|
1994
|
11.2
|
5
|
1 in 9,200
|
|
Ireland
|
1992
|
5.9
|
5
|
1 in 3,800
|
|
Israel
|
1994
|
5.2
|
5
|
1 in 4,000
|
|
Italy
|
1994
|
12.4
|
65
|
1 in 5,300
|
|
Japan
|
1994
|
6.1
|
230
|
1 in 2,900
|
|
Netherlands
|
1994
|
6.1
|
25
|
1 in 4,300
|
|
New Zealand
|
1993
|
20.4
|
15
|
1 in 1,600
|
|
Norway
|
1993
|
3.4
|
5
|
1 in 7,300
|
|
Singapore
|
1994
|
6.1
|
5
|
1 in 4,900
|
|
Spain
|
1993
|
6.2
|
30
|
1 in 9,200
|
|
Sweden
|
1993
|
5.1
|
10
|
1 in 6,000
|
|
Switzerland
|
1994
|
3.6
|
5
|
1 in 8,700
|
|
UK
|
1992
|
6.7
|
70
|
1 in 5,100
|
|
USA
|
1993
|
7.5
|
480
|
1 in 3,500
|
|
Asia
|
|
|
323,000
|
I in 65
|
|
North America
|
|
|
500
|
1 in 3,700
|
|
Europe
|
|
|
3,200
|
1 in 1,400
|
|
Oceania
|
|
|
1,400
|
1 in 26
|
|
World
|
|
|
585,000
|
1 in 60
|
* The underlying
rate was 5.3 per 100,000 births during the period 1990-1994.
Source: International Health - How Australia
Compares (AIHW cat. No.HSE6) 1998.
This information
relates to Paragraph 4.4 of the Report.
Navigation: Previous Page | Index | Next Page