 | Hypertension, haemorrhage reasons for 40% of 479 maternal deaths in Tamil Nadu in 2022-23TN’s Maternal Mortality Rate dropped to 54 per 1 lakh live births in 2018-20 from 58 in 2017-19, as per the data released by the Union Health Ministry in 2022. |
| India among six countries to report dip in maternal mortality: WHOThe Sustainable Development Goal set by the United Nations in 2015 is to reduce the global MMR to less than 70/lakh live births by 2030. |
