A year ago, in 2020, the maternal mortality rate was 53.2, indicating that Mexico has not been able to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Although the figures are from three years ago, they are the most recent updated by the OECD.
Furthermore, the decline in this indicator remains at the level of two decades ago, as documented in another study by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, the World Bank Group and the United Nations Population Fund.
Measuring maternal mortality is one of the most important indicators for assessing a country’s development and the response capacity of its health system, as it records the deaths of women between 15 and 49 years of age from preventable causes related to pregnancy or childbirth.
Although Mexico’s mortality rate is high, it still meets target 3.1 of the Sustainable Development Goal Good Health and Well-being, which commits countries to reduce maternal deaths to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030.
