Table 1.

Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) estimates in the three countries using two different sources

Sources	MMR: number of maternal deaths/100,000 live births (uncertainty range)
	Burkina Faso	Ghana	Tanzania
Trends in maternal mortality: 1990-2008. Estimates developed by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank. 2010[3].	560 (330 to 950)	350 (210 to 600)	790 (470 to 1300)
Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980 to 2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5. Lancet, 2010[5].	332 (208 to 522)	409 (248 to 633)	449 (273 to 721)