Annual Maternal Deaths
Data as of 2023Annual number of deaths of women during pregnancy or childbirth.
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How is this data produced?
- A maternal death refers to the death of a woman during pregnancy or childbirth, or within 42 days after the termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy. Furthermore, the death must have been from a cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, not an accidental or unrelated cause.
- This data is derived based on deaths registered with JPN which have been certified as a maternal death by the Ministry of Health. Data prior to 1963 refers to Peninsular Malaysia only (excluding Singapore). Data from 1963 onwards refers to the entirety of Malaysia (i.e. including Sabah and Sarawak). For a deeper understanding of the methodology and associated definition, please refer to the Technical Notes.
What caveats I should bear in mind when using this data?
This data is derived based on deaths registered with JPN. Therefore, if a maternal death is not registered with JPN (for instance, if a foreign maternal death is registered only in their home country, or a maternal death in a remote area is not registered), it will generally not count in this dataset. However, adjustment has been made to the number of deaths in Sabah to account for the under-reporting of deaths detected based on the 'Study of Under Reporting of Deaths in Sabah', which was conducted by DOSM and approved by the Steering Committee on Implementation of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in 2016.
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Metadata
Dataset description
Annual number of deaths of women during pregnancy or childbirth.
Variable definitions
- Date
- Maternal Deaths
- Maternal Mortality Rate
Name in Dataset | Variable | Definition |
|---|---|---|
date (Date) | Date | The date in YYYY-MM-DD format, with MM-DD set to 01-01 since the data is at annual frequency |
abs (Integer) | Maternal Deaths | Number of maternal deaths in that year |
rate (Float) | Maternal Mortality Rate | Number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births |
Last updated:
17 Oct 2024, 12:00
Next update:
01 Nov 2025, 12:00
Data source(s)
- National Registration Department
- Department of Statistics Malaysia
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License
This data is made open under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). A copy of the license is available Here.
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Connect directly to the data with Python.
# If not already installed, do: pip install pandas fastparquet
import pandas as pd
URL_DATA = 'https://storage.dosm.gov.my/demography/death_maternal.parquet'
df = pd.read_parquet(URL_DATA)
if 'date' in df.columns: df['date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date'])
print(df)Sample OpenAPI query
The following code is an example of how to make an API query to retrieve the data catalogue mentioned above. You can use different programming languages by switching the code accordingly. For a complete guide on possible query parameters and syntax, please refer to the official Open API Documentation.
import requests
import pprint
url = "https://api.data.gov.my/data-catalogue?id=deaths_maternal&limit=3"
response_json = requests.get(url=url).json()
pprint.pprint(response_json)
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