Kyrgyzstan ranks the first among CIS countries in terms of maternal mortality – WHO

Almaty. August 10. Silkroadnews – Kyrgyzstan ranked the first among the CIS countries in terms of maternal mortality, data by the World Health Organization for 2015 shows, KazTAG reports.

In 2015 the maternal mortality ratio in Kazakhstan was 12 deaths per 100 thousand live births, followed by Latvia – 18 deaths; Moldova – 23; Ukraine – 24; Azerbaijan, Russia and Armenia – 25; Tajikistan – 32; Georgia and Uzbekistan – 36; Turkmenistan – 42.
The lowest maternal mortality ratios among the post-Soviet countries in 2015 were observed in Belarus (which, along with Austria, Sweden, Italy and the Czech Republic, had only 4 cases of maternal deaths per 100 thousand live births), Estonia – 9 and Lithuania – 10.

The highest ratio of maternal mortality among the CIS countries was marked in Kyrgyzstan with 76 deaths of mothers per 100 thousand live births.

Among the leaders of the WHO ranking there are Iceland, Poland, Greece and Finland, where 3 cases of deaths of mothers got registered per 100 thousand live births. For neighboring China this ratio made 27 deaths. The worst situation with maternal mortality was observed in 2015 in Sierra Leone – 1360 deaths, Central African Republic – 882, Chad – 856 and Nigeria – 814.