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Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Health > Reproductive health > Lifetime risk of maternal death > 1 in > Rate varies by country

DEFINITION: Life time risk of maternal death is the probability that a 15-year-old female will die eventually from a maternal cause assuming that current levels of fertility and mortality (including maternal mortality) do not change in the future, taking into account competing causes of death. ".

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# COUNTRY AMOUNT DATE GRAPH
1 Mauritius 1,600 2008
2 Cape Verde 350 2008
3 Botswana 180 2008
4 Namibia 160 2008
5 Gabon 110 2008
6 South Africa 100 2008
7 Djibouti 93 2008
8 Swaziland 75 2008
9 Equatorial Guinea 73 2008
10 Eritrea 72 2008
11 Comoros 71 2008
12 Togo 67 2008
13 Ghana 66 2008
14 Lesotho 62 2008
15 The Gambia 49 2008
16 Senegal 46 2008
17 Madagascar 45 2008
18 Cote d'Ivoire 44 2008
19 Benin 43 2008
20 Zimbabwe 42 2008
21 Mauritania 41 2008
22 Ethiopia 40 2008
=23 Kenya 38 2008
=23 Zambia 38 2008
25 Mozambique 37 2008
26 Malawi 36 2008
=27 Cameroon 35 2008
=27 Rwanda 35 2008
=27 Uganda 35 2008
30 Sudan 32 2008
31 Burkina Faso 28 2008
32 Central African Republic 27 2008
33 Guinea 26 2008
34 Burundi 25 2008
35 Democratic Republic of the Congo 24 2008
=36 Tanzania 23 2008
=36 Nigeria 23 2008
38 Mali 22 2008
39 Sierra Leone 21 2008
40 Liberia 20 2008
41 Guinea-Bissau 18 2008
42 Niger 16 2008
=43 Somalia 14 2008
=43 Chad 14 2008

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