Child and Maternal Mortality
in Islamic Countries
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Iraq 30 -2.02 50 616 -3.01
Jordan 17 -2.68 58 114 -2.54
Kuwait 8 -2.73 4 3 -2.00
Lebanon 8 -4.96 15 12 -6.21
Libya 12 -4.25 9 12 -5.56
Mauritania 79 -1.42 602 808 -1.41
Morocco 23 -4.29 121 848 -3.77
Oman 11 -4.35 17 13 -2.24
Palestine 21 -2.67 45 68 -3.75
Qatar 8 -3.53 13 3 -3.27
Saudi Arabia 7 -6.20 12 71 -5.38
Somalia 127 -1.23 732 3446 -1.99
Sudan 63 -2.58 311 4100 -3.43
Syria 17 -2.77 68 296 -2.35
Tunisia 13 -5.10 62 125 -2.95
United Arab Emirates 9 -2.12 6 5 -4.01
Yemen 55 -2.89 385 3296 -1.39
Asian Group
Afghanistan 68 -3.33 396 4280 -4.76
Albania 9 -5.27 29 11 -3.58
Azerbaijan 23 -4.95 25 48 -3.68
Bangladesh 32 -5.18 176 5520 -4.58
Brunei Darussalam 11 -0.87 23 1 -1.79
Guyana* 31 -2.33 229 33 1.18
Indonesia 25 -4.18 126 6355 -4.92
Iran 15 -4.62 25 339 -6.16
Kazakhstan 10 -5.75 12 45 -7.22
Kyrgyz Republic 20 -4.16 76 116 -0.22
Malaysia 8 -2.62 40 202 -2.70
Maldives 8 -8.46 68 5 -8.80
Pakistan 75 -2.18 178 9699 -3.48
Suriname * 20 -3.13 155 15 0.81
Tajikistan 34 -3.98 32 81 -4.73
Turkey 12 -6.40 16 205 -6.97
Turkmenistan 47 -2.05 42 47 -2.66
Uzbekistan 23 -4.07 36 239 -1.62
Data source: U5MR: Estimates generated by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
in 2018; MMR: Estimates generated by the UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG). Rates
of change were calculated by the JHU study team. *Located in South America
In 2015, the global MMR on an average was 216 deaths per 100,000 live births. Twenty-five OIC
countries had higher MMRs than the global average. Eleven OIC countries, all in sub-Saharan
Africa, had exceedingly high MMRs – more than 500 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births,
which are 100 times higher than many developed countries. These countries with very high
MMR are Cameroon (MMR: 596), Chad (856), Cote d'Ivoire (645), Gambia (706), Guinea-Bissau
(549), Mali (587), Mauritania (602), Niger (553), Nigeria (814), Sierra Leone (1360), and
Somalia (732). Of the global 303,000 maternal deaths in 2015, about 58, 058 maternal deaths
occurred in Nigeria.