Number of Maternal deaths in South Africa

Prepared by Aniuska Inés Domínguez ARIOSA, Data Scientist (BSc Computer Science with Maths – University of Santa Clara, CUBA, MSc Data Science – City University London, UK)

Definition: A maternal death refers to the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes

Source: WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and the United Nations Population Division. Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2015. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2015