Total fertility rate births per woman, 2006
Greenland (Den)
5.0 or more 3.5–4.9
Faeroe Islands (Den)
Iceland
2.2–3.4
Sweden Finland
Norway The Netherlands
1.5–2.1
C a n a d a
less than 1.5
United Kingdom
Isle of Man (UK)
Denmark
Ireland
no data
Fra
Luxembourg Liechtenstein Andorra
U n i t e d
S t a t e s
Monaco
Gibraltar (UK)
Bermuda (UK)
Cayman Islands (UK) Belize
Guatemala Honduras Aruba (Neth) El Salvador Nicaragua Panama Costa Rica
Former Spanish Sahara
St. Kitts and Nevis Antigua and Barbuda
Haiti
Jamaica
Alg
US Virgin Islands (US)
Dominican Republic Puerto Rico (US)
Cuba
Morocco
British Virgin Islands (UK)
The Bahamas Mexico
Guadeloupe (Fr)
Dominica
Cape Verde
Martinique (Fr) St. Lucia
Barbados
Kiribati
Suriname Ecuador
Mauritania Mali
Senegal Guinea-Bissau
Poland
Belarus
Niger
Eritrea
Chad
The Gambia
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago Grenada R.B. de French Guiana Venezuela Guyana (Fr) Colombia
Netherlands Antilles (Neth)
Spain
Portugal
Liberia
Sudan
Burkina Faso Benin
Guinea
Sierra Leone
Côte Ghana d'Ivoire Togo
São Tomé and Príncipe
F e d e r a t i o n
Czech Republic Slovak Republic Slovenia Croatia Ukraine Kazakhstan Serbia Austria nce Hungary Moldova Bosnia and Herzegovina Mongolia Switzerland Romania FYR Macedonia Italy Montenegro Bulgaria Uzbekistan Georgia Kyrgyz Republic Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Greece Turkmenistan Turkey Tajikistan Cyprus San Syrian Marino Islamic Republic Tunisia Lebanon Arab Rep. of Iran Afghanistan C h i Malta Iraq Israel Kuwait Jordan Pakistan West Bank and Gaza Nepal Bhutan eria Bahrain Libya Saudi Arabia Arab Rep. of Egypt United Arab Qatar Bangladesh India Emirates Myanmar Oman Germany Belgium
Channel Islands (UK)
R u s s i a n
Estonia Latvia Lithuania
Rep. of Yemen
Cameroon
Sri Lanka Somalia
Equatorial Guinea Congo Gabon
N. Mariana Islands (US) Philippines
Guam (US)
Brunei Darussalam
Maldives
Kenya
Federated States of Micronesia
Singapore
Dem. Rep. of Congo Burundi
Nauru
Indonesia Papua New Guinea
Seychelles Tanzania
Peru
B r a z i l
Comoros
Zambia Malawi
American Samoa (US)
Timor-Leste
Fiji
Vanuatu
Bolivia Zimbabwe Mozambique Madagascar Namibia Botswana Réunion (Fr)
Paraguay
Tuvalu
Solomon Islands
Mayotte (Fr)
Angola
French Polynesia (Fr)
Marshall Islands
Palau
Malaysia
Uganda Rwanda
Japan
Lao P.D.R. Vietnam Cambodia
Ethiopia
Central African Republic
Rep. of Korea
n a
Thailand
Djibouti Nigeria
Dem. People's Rep. of Korea
Tonga
New Caledonia (Fr)
Mauritius
A u s t r a l i a
Samoa
Swaziland Lesotho South Africa
Uruguay
Chile Argentina
New Zealand
A mother and child receive free vitamin A at a government health clinic, Hanoi
Countries with low level of contraceptive use, 2000–2007, most recent year available Country
(% of women, ages 15–49)
Chad
3
Sierra Leone
5
Angola
6
Sudan
8
Eritrea
8
Mauritania Mali Burundi
Facts Every minute of every day, most often in a developing country, a woman dies from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth. This means that, at a minimum, over 500,000 women die every year.
UNICEF
www.unicef.org/health/index_ maternalhealth.html
Nearly all maternal deaths (99 percent) occur in the developing world—making maternal mortality the health statistic with the largest disparity between developed and developing countries.
UNICEF Childinfo
www.childinfo.org/health.html
World Health Organization
www.who.int/topics/maternal_ health/en/
World Bank HNPstats
www.worldbank.org/hnpstats
Inter-agency Group on Safe Motherhood
www.safemotherhood.org
Fore-library every woman Delivered by The World Bank to: who dies, 30 to 50 women suffer injury, infection, or disease. Pregnancy-related complications are among the leading The World8Bank - IMF Library Network causes of death and disability for women age 15 to 49 in 8IP : 138.220.77.170 developing countries. Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:24:02 9
Guinea
9
Liberia
10
Internet links
About 13 percent of maternal deaths worldwide result from unsafe abortions.
Health
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