Maternal mortality

• Pregnancy and childbirth

2024: Maternal mortality in Russia decreased by 69% to 10.6 cases per 100 thousand newborns

The maternal mortality rate in Russia has decreased by 69% since 2021 and amounted to 10.6 cases per 100 thousand newborns in 2024 against 34.5 cases in 2021, Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko said on December 16, 2024.

According to Kommersant, the maternal mortality rate reflects the number of deaths of mothers per 100 thousand newborns, not taking into account the situation when both mother and child died. This indicator demonstrates the risk of maternal death relative to the number of newborns.

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Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said that the indicators of 2024 also require improvement. Doctors need to analyze critical conditions that can lead to death during childbirth. To fix life-threatening cases in pregnant women, a special register has been created.

According to data, in Rosstat 2020, against the background of the coronavirus pandemic COVID-19 , maternal mortality increased by 20% and amounted to 11.2 cases per 100 thousand newborns (161 women). In 2021, the figure tripled to 34.5 (482 women).

In 2022, the rate fell to 13 cases (170 women), and in 2023 it was 13.3 (168 women). Since the mid-1990s, there has been a steady decline in the maternal mortality rate, which reached a low of 8.8 cases in 2017.

Before 2010, the maternal mortality rate was about 20 cases. In the same year, Rosstat stopped publishing mortality data, taking into account late maternal death, which occurs after 42 days, but within a year after childbirth.

Rosstat statistics include deaths of women due to abortion, ectopic pregnancy, obstetric embolism, bleeding, sepsis, complications of anesthesia and other causes associated with pregnancy and childbirth.^[1]

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