15 Worst Countries for Maternal Death Rate per 100,000 live births in 2000

Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health

Question To Consider: 1) Extend this heat map's data into a bar graph and name the Three Worst Countries (out of fifteen) and the Three Best Countries (out of fifteen) based on the bar graph?

How has Maternal Death Rate per 100,000 lived deaths changed in these fifteen countries since 2000?

Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health

Questions To Consider: 1) Operate the interactive chart and choose a country to track. How has it improved its maternal health? How has it gotten worse? 2) Why would this be important information for organizations like the United Nations to track and know about?

Is Maternal Death Rate per 100,000 live births a regional problem?

Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health

Questions To Consider: 1) Analyze the first heat map and infer why some red (high numbers, worse) countries are so close to the light yellow (low numbers, better) countries instead of being farther away. 2) Relate the Top Fifteen Worst Countries to the rest of the world and compare and contrast why the rest of the world is so different to the top fifteen?