I really didn't know this, but this article by Kristof Nicholas in today's NY Times, brings into focus the problems that pregnant women face in many parts of the world (the example here is a small town in Cameroon), when delivery, with an estimated mortality rate of upto 1 in 20, for e.g. in Cameroon.
India has a maternal mortality rate of approx. 540 per 100,000, which is amazingly high. This means that. The lifetime mortality risk is 1:48.
The rates are obviously higher in rural and more importantly impoverished areas and we have the highest rate in South Asia.
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