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. 2024 Jan 15;48:e5. doi: 10.26633/RPSP.2024.5

TABLE 2. In-hospital delivery-related maternal mortality ratios (MMRs) per 100 000 live births, by province and year of discharge, Ecuador, 2015–2022.

Province

Year

Totala

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

Azuay

0

0

41.51

0

7.66

0

49.07

49.71

16.22

Bolívar

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Cañar

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Carchi

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Cotopaxi

0

0

0

0

0

28.47

31.20

30.43

10.17

Chimborazo

0

0

0

0

13.76

0

0

0

1.69

El Oro

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Esmeraldas

6.65

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

Galápagos

0

0

0

0

0

259.07

0

0

34.72

Guayas

1.08

1.29

0

20.53

5.28

17.17

4.41

6.12

6.75

Imbabura

0

0

0

12.03

62.77

0

31.59

0

12.53

Loja

0

0

12.34

0

0

0

0

0

1.57

Los Ríos

5.21

0

5.42

5.41

42.96

28.87

22.34

5.70

14.59

Manabí

7.60

9.08

0

15.11

0

233.08

298.66

134.91

84.85

Morona Santiago

14.42

0

0

0

18.92

0

0

0

4.73

Napo

0

0

0

0

36.39

82.75

0

0

13.26

Orellana

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Pastaza

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Pichincha

0

2.04

0

6.24

8.55

2.47

17.37

5.62

4.74

Santa Elena

0

0

0

0

0

91.74

0

0

11.04

Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas

6.97

0

7.91

7.94

0

9.04

0

9.18

5.15

Sucumbíos

0

0

0

19.64

0

0

0

0

2.78

Tungurahua

54.90

0

0

0

0

0

13.57

13.74

11.26

Zamora Chinchipe

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Totala

3.70

1.35

2.92

8.80

8.42

32.22

37.32

18.94

13.15

a

These rates represent the total number of all in-hospital maternal deaths during each year divided by the total number of live births in Ecuador in that year multiplied by 100 000.

Source: Table prepared by the author based on analyses of data sets from the Statistical Registry of Hospital Beds and Discharges of the Ecuadorian National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (known as INEC).