I went to a discussion about why maternal health is not a political priority at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars yesterday and I found some interesting statistics from the World Health Organization.
The Safe Motherhood Initiative, an international effort to raise awareness of maternal health, was launched in 1987 and a goal was set to reduce the world's maternal mortality rate, or MMR, by 75 percent between 1990 and 2015. It's 2009 and progress so far has been very minimal.
Between 1990 and 2005, the MMR saw only about a 1 percent improvement.
Ireland has the lowest maternal mortality ratio, or MMR, in the world: 1 per every 100,000 live births. Niger has the highest: 1,800 per every 100,000 live births, according to WHO.
The U.S. MMR is 11 per every 100,000 live births. I was surprised to find that the following countries have a lower MMR than the U.S.: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Solomon Islands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the former Yugoslaz Republic of Macedonia and the United Kingdom.
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