Term:
Maternal Mortality
Definition:
It is number deaths between women due to pregnancy and birth complications, the maternal mortality rate refers to the number of dead women due to these reasons per 100,000 live births.
Domain:
Population
Source:
UN,Department of Economic and So-cial Affair, Population Division, World Population Prospects, the 2010 Revision, Standard variants (Updated: 28 June 2011)
