Poland Lifetime risk of maternal death (1 in: rate varies by country)

Poland Lifetime risk of maternal death (1 in: rate varies by country): Key Points

• By 2023, Poland's lifetime risk of maternal death came to 58.68K Number of 15-year old women for whic, against 40.41K Number of 15-year old women for whic in 2014 — around 45% up across the period.
• 2018-2019: keeps gaining, out to 42.18K Number of 15-year old women for whic (+10%).
• 2020: drops hard to 27.22K Number of 15-year old women for whic (-35%).
• 2021: lifts to 35.01K Number of 15-year old women for whic (+29%).
• 2022: shoots up to 56.08K Number of 15-year old women for whic (+60%).
• 2023: Finishes at 58.68K Number of 15-year old women for whic, up 45.2% from where it started in 2014.

What The Volatility Really Means

Treat this less like a trend and more like a set of individual events. Something different seems to be driving each up or down move rather than one consistent force.

The 2020 dip lands in the one year that disrupted almost every kind of economic activity worldwide — 2020. That doesn't prove COVID-19 caused this specific move, but it's a reasonable first place to look before assuming something else did.

Treat the exact numbers as directional rather than precise, and lean on the overall shape of the lifetime risk of maternal death line for Poland rather than any one year in isolation.

This series reflects Poland's official reporting via the linked source. Statistics of this kind are typically benchmarked against periodic censuses or surveys, with intervening years estimated.