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Improving Maternal Care in Belize

Improving Maternal Care in Belize

Publisher

MOH/University Research Co. Ltd/UNFPA Belize

Number of pages

4

Author

MOH/University Research Co. Ltd/UNFPA Belize

Annual Report

Improving Maternal Care in Belize

Publication date

01 January 2011

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The average life expectancy at birth in 2006 was 65 for males and 74 for females. The national poverty rate has increased, from 33% in 2001 to 41.3% in 2010. In 2005, the maternal mortality ratio was 134 per 100,000 live births with 60% of deaths due to eclampsia. The proportion of under-five and under one deaths occurring in the neonatal period is at 40 and 60% respectively, similarly to other Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) countries. Belize is a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Millennium Development Goals.