Every year, 529,000 women die from pregnancy-related causes.
This means that more than 1 million children are left motherless and vulnerable.
Children who have lost their mothers are up to 10 more times more likely to die prematurely than those who haven’t.
More than 80 per cent of maternal deaths worldwide are due to five direct causes: haemorrhage, sepsis, unsafe abortion, obstructed labour and hypertensive disease of pregnancy.
Most maternal deaths (61 per cent) take place during labour, delivery or in the immediate post-partum period.
Some 3.4 million newborns die within the first week of life.
The risk of a woman dying as a result of pregnancy or childbirth during her lifetime is about 1 in 7 in Afghanistan and Sierra Leone compared with about 1 in 30,000 in Sweden.
More than 10 million women a year suffer severe or long-lasting illnesses or disabilities, from obstetric fistula to infertility, depression and impoverishment caused by complications of pregnancy or childbirth.
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