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Preventable maternal deaths down from 2000, but rate of progress at a crawl

19 September 2019
The decline in maternal deaths is far from adequate, UNFPA officials say. In Yemen, a pregnant woman with cholera receives care. © UNFPA Yemen
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Trends in Maternal Mortality: 2000 to 2017 Executive Summary

Resource date: 19 September 2019

Author: UNFPA, World Health Organization, UNICEF, World Bank Group, the United Nations Population Division

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This Executive Summary provides a snapshot of the contents of the Trends in Maternal Mortality: 2000 to 2017 report, which shows internationally comparable global, regional and country-level estimates and trends for maternal mortality between 2000 and 2017.

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