Maternal mortality falls by almost 50% - UN report

Image: Maternal mortality has fallen by almost half since 1990.

bbc.com - November 12th, 2015

Pregnancy-related deaths have fallen by almost half in the past 25 years, according to a report by United Nations agencies published in The Lancet.

Around 303,000 women died of complications during pregnancy or up to six weeks after giving birth in 2015 - down from 532,000 in 1990.

Officials from the World Health Organisation (WHO) said the results showed "huge progress".

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