Birth related mortality is a major contributor to the burden of deaths worldwide, ranking, eighth globally and third in low income countries.
Birth-related mortality refers to deaths that occur around the time of birth, encompassing maternal, neonatal, and stillbirths.
This term includes maternal deaths during childbirth, neonatal deaths within the first 28 days of life, and stillbirths, which are fetal deaths occurring after 20 weeks of gestation.
Maternal mortality is defined as the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management.
Neonatal mortality refers to the death of a live-born baby within the first 28 days of life.
Stillbirths are categorized into antepartum stillbirths (fetal deaths before labor) and intrapartum stillbirths (fetal deaths during labor).
Most still births in neonatal and maternal are preventable if basic care is provided, especially during birth when the mother and baby share common risk factors and complications and jointly benefit from interventions.
In 2020 an estimated 4.5 million people combined deaths occurred globally: 0.3 million maternal deaths, 2.3 million neonatal deaths, and 1.9 million still births.
WHO targets to reduce the incidence of stillbirths to at least as low as 12 deaths per 1000 births, the incident of neonatal deaths to at least as low as 12 deaths per 1000 live births and maternal death to lower than 70 deaths for 100,000 life births.
In 2020 global maternal mortality was estimated to be 223 deaths per hundred thousand live births.
In 2022 the estimated global incidence of neonatal death and still births were 17 desperate thousand live births and 14 deaths per 1000 births, respectively, approximately 45% of still births are related to complications that occurred during the intrapartum period.
The annual incidence of reduction in stillbirth and neonatal and maternal deaths are too slow to meet global goals.
Birth-related mortality refers to deaths that occur around the time of birth, encompassing maternal, neonatal, and stillbirths.