Sierra Leone · Maternal Deaths (WHO Estimates)

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Unit: deaths. Publisher measure: Number of maternal deaths.

Estimated annual number of maternal deaths during pregnancy, childbirth or within 42 days after termination of pregnancy, from causes related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management; accidental and incidental causes are excluded.

Measurement basis: UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG) Bayesian model estimates disseminated by WHO; counts, not maternal mortality ratios.

Reference-period cadence: annual.

Source update cadence: every 3–5 years. This does not establish a publication date for an individual reading.

  • Modelled annual number of maternal deaths, not deaths per live births. Pregnancy-related deaths extend through 42 days after termination; accidental and incidental causes are excluded.
  • Numeric estimates and both uncertainty endpoints preserve source precision. A rounded publisher display of 0 can represent a positive estimate; it is not converted to zero.
  • Reference years are annual, while WHO describes dissemination every 3–5 years. The interval confidence level and official observation publication vintage are not established by this capture.

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World Health Organization (Global Health Observatory); retrieved 2026-10-01. Retrieval time is separate from an official publisher release vintage.

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Reported estimates and uncertainty · 39 rows

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Reported estimates and independently qualified uncertainty endpoints
CountryYearReadingLower endpointUpper endpointPublisher note
Sierra Leone19852558.8057661666.5701293738.352844—
Sierra Leone19862658.6144881769.1644853879.13517—
Sierra Leone19872735.1864021844.9668033918.765438—
Sierra Leone19882827.1779911929.4813314000.706873—
Sierra Leone19892937.869542026.3822644109.406468—
Sierra Leone19902999.6570112090.4208674154.047271—
Sierra Leone19913428.1349592417.1664214714.649693—
Sierra Leone19923291.756112332.6422484493.304996—
Sierra Leone19933309.8627372329.9272084486.362984—
Sierra Leone19943426.4532092415.7934364594.580762—
Sierra Leone19953473.8976532466.2513144634.151767—
Sierra Leone19963368.1111882398.1728634443.445631—
Sierra Leone19973388.0529382431.7493644443.227811—
Sierra Leone19983486.1880822533.5342124534.229736—
Sierra Leone19993447.4411672534.5978424456.410876—
Sierra Leone20003194.4411872384.3705924084.083728—
Sierra Leone20013134.4206892348.2448543959.945233—
Sierra Leone20023285.1231882478.2705344104.796861—
Sierra Leone20033224.958942469.7724574016.393053—
Sierra Leone20043106.462922415.6356773837.452876—
Sierra Leone20052988.4748922362.8691093691.235622—
Sierra Leone20062745.3858052179.7437153371.223313—
Sierra Leone20072673.1863762140.8993693283.757468—
Sierra Leone20082614.823722105.7095083207.688572—
Sierra Leone20092542.745882058.6599313117.857322—
Sierra Leone20102477.9712742014.1260833053.464346—
Sierra Leone20112379.3409911937.2795622936.434827—
Sierra Leone20122264.0068051835.7256152817.650818—
Sierra Leone20132069.8860311672.4227252598.879897—
Sierra Leone20142010.3946371611.7165772542.933942—
Sierra Leone20151780.8086841419.254592272.154437—
Sierra Leone20161559.3697721228.544272038.570916—
Sierra Leone20171442.9941161122.3425721925.0579—
Sierra Leone20181237.92362942.95435911681.872181—
Sierra Leone20191175.953991881.97227831642.645479—
Sierra Leone20201075.723051831.17892821480.818513—
Sierra Leone20211032.821213792.20014891450.930102—
Sierra Leone2022950.5793341717.59197061343.757319—
Sierra Leone2023915.3866541645.22612291390.36697—
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