Before you play

What This Maternal Figure Means

This game compares maternal mortality ratio across countries.

  • The figure estimates how many women die from pregnancy-related causes per 100,000 live births.
  • It is about health systems, transport, poverty, conflict, and emergency care showing up at the worst possible moment.
  • A lower number is not a national virtue medal. It is a thinner margin for catastrophe.

Childbirth can be ordinary right up to the point a system fails.