IHME's Dr. Lozano presents the results of IHME's research on maternal mortality, which shows that global maternal deaths are declining.
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Editor's Notes
This graph shows maternal deaths by 21 Global Burden of Disease regions. The global total was 526,300 in 1980, dropping to 342,900 in 2008, a yearly rate of decline of about 1.5% in the number of deaths. You can see here the enormous but shrinking contribution of South Asia, which includes India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. You can also see that the relative contribution of maternal deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa has been increasing, from about 23% in 1980 to more than half (52%) in 2008.