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=== Maternal mortality ===
{{Main|Maternal mortality}}

[[Maternal mortality]] or maternal death is defined by WHO as "the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.who.int/healthinfo/statistics/indmaternalmortality/en/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507115424/http://www.who.int/healthinfo/statistics/indmaternalmortality/en/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 May 2013 |title=Maternal mortality ratio (per 100 000 live births) |website=[[World Health Organization]] |access-date=19 April 2014}}</ref> In 2008, noting that each year more than 500,000 women die of complications of pregnancy and childbirth and at least seven million experience serious health problems while 50 million more have adverse health consequences after childbirth, the World Health Organization urged midwife training to strengthen maternal and newborn health services. To support the upgrading of midwifery skills the WHO established a midwife training program, Action for Safe Motherhood.<ref name="WHO2008Ed">{{cite book |title=Education material for teachers of midwifery : midwifery education modules |date=2008 |publisher=World Health Organization |isbn=978-600-7257-12-8 |hdl=10665/44145 |page=3 }}</ref>

In 2017, 94% of maternal deaths occur in low and lower middle-income countries. Approximately 86% of maternal deaths occur in [[sub-Saharan Africa]] and [[South Asia]], with sub-Saharan Africa accounting for around 66% and Southern Asia accounting for around 20%. The main causes of maternal mortality include [[pre-eclampsia]] and [[eclampsia]], [[unsafe abortion]], pregnancy complications from [[malaria]] and [[HIV/AIDS]], and severe bleeding and infections following childbirth.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/maternal-mortality |title=Maternal mortality |website=[[World Health Organization]] |date=19 September 2019 |access-date=29 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208192432/https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/maternal-mortality |archive-date=8 February 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> Most European countries, Australia, Japan, and Singapore are very safe in regard to childbirth.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2223rank.html |title=The World Factbook |publisher=Cia.gov |access-date=19 April 2014 |archive-date=18 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418113820/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2223rank.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{synthesis inline|date=July 2022|sure=yes|reason=Citation is to a list of statistics on maternal mortality rate. As a list of data, it does not make the claim it is being used to support.}}{{better source needed|date=July 2022|reason=Citation is to a list of statistics that is currently over 12 years old. See also the synthesis inline tag.}}