Countries with the highest maternal mortality rates — where does Nigeria rank?

Maternal mortality is a genuinely serious concern for underdeveloped nations. According to new data published in the report, Trends in maternal mortality 2000 to 2023, a woman died almost every two minutes from complications during childbirth in 2023. Beyond that, over 700 women died from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth every single day in the same year, leading to 260,000 deaths in total. It becomes scarier when we realise that most of these deaths could have been prevent