Table 1.

Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) estimates for Mangochi District obtained via a Reproductive Age Mortality Survey (RAMOS) and using different estimates of the number of live births

Source	Number of maternal deaths	Estimated number of live births	MMR: Number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births	95 % confidence interval
Number of BCG vaccinated babies (Ministry of Health, [12])	151	41,623	363	307-425
Live births from census report, 2008 (Malawi National Statistics Office, [9])	151	43,000	351	297-412
Live births calculated from the General Fertility Ratea (Malawi National Statistics Office, [4])	151	44,276	341	289-400

^aThe general fertility rate is 213 for rural Malawi (Malawi National Statistics Office, [4])