WORLD PULSE
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World Pulse · dashboard

The world, indicator by indicator

21 indicators · 217 countries · 156,366 observations. Each indicator is read at the most recent year that still has near-complete coverage. Neither rule works alone: child stunting's newest year has six reporters, and internet use is best covered in 1990, when nearly every country reported it as zero.

Maternal mortality ratio (modeled estimate, per 100,000 live births)

read at 2023 · 3 years old

Women dying from pregnancy-related causes per 100,000 live births.

World median

47per 100,000 live births

Countries reporting

194/ 217

Observations, all years

7.6k

The median is computed across the 194 countries reporting in 2023 — arithmetic over real values, not a published figure. Lower is better for this indicator.

How the world is spread · 2023

88 countries between 1 and 36 per 100,000 live births28 countries between 36 and 72 per 100,000 live births14 countries between 72 and 107 per 100,000 live births13 countries between 107 and 143 per 100,000 live births9 countries between 143 and 178 per 100,000 live births6 countries between 178 and 214 per 100,000 live births8 countries between 214 and 249 per 100,000 live births4 countries between 249 and 284 per 100,000 live births1 country between 284 and 320 per 100,000 live births5 countries between 320 and 355 per 100,000 live births4 countries between 355 and 391 per 100,000 live births1 country between 391 and 426 per 100,000 live births2 countries between 426 and 462 per 100,000 live births2 countries between 462 and 497 per 100,000 live births3 countries between 497 and 532 per 100,000 live births1 country between 532 and 568 per 100,000 live births1 country between 603 and 639 per 100,000 live births2 countries between 674 and 710 per 100,000 live births1 country between 745 and 780 per 100,000 live births1 country between 958 and 993 per 100,000 live birthsMEDIAN1993
194 countries reporting · each bar is a count of countries, not a value · Pakistan 155 per 100,000 live births

How much of the world was measured

ALL 2171985: 194 of 217 countries reported1986: 194 of 217 countries reported1987: 194 of 217 countries reported1988: 194 of 217 countries reported1989: 194 of 217 countries reported1990: 194 of 217 countries reported1991: 194 of 217 countries reported1992: 194 of 217 countries reported1993: 194 of 217 countries reported1994: 194 of 217 countries reported1995: 194 of 217 countries reported1996: 194 of 217 countries reported1997: 194 of 217 countries reported1998: 194 of 217 countries reported1999: 194 of 217 countries reported2000: 194 of 217 countries reported2001: 194 of 217 countries reported2002: 194 of 217 countries reported2003: 194 of 217 countries reported2004: 194 of 217 countries reported2005: 194 of 217 countries reported2006: 194 of 217 countries reported2007: 194 of 217 countries reported2008: 194 of 217 countries reported2009: 194 of 217 countries reported2010: 194 of 217 countries reported2011: 194 of 217 countries reported2012: 194 of 217 countries reported2013: 194 of 217 countries reported2014: 194 of 217 countries reported2015: 194 of 217 countries reported2016: 194 of 217 countries reported2017: 194 of 217 countries reported2018: 194 of 217 countries reported2019: 194 of 217 countries reported2020: 194 of 217 countries reported2021: 194 of 217 countries reported2022: 194 of 217 countries reported2023: 194 of 217 countries reported19852023
Best year 1985 with 194 of 217 · most recent 2023 with 194. A short bar means the world did not measure, not that the value fell.

Highest · 2023

Nigeria993
Chad748
Central African Republic692
South Sudan692
Liberia628
Somalia, Fed. Rep.563
Afghanistan521
Benin518

Lowest · 2023

Norway1
Belarus1
Poland2
Israel2
Australia2
United Arab Emirates3
Spain3
Slovenia3

Read with care

  • · MODELLED. A UN inter-agency estimate, not a direct count — confidence intervals are wide, often ±30% or more for countries without complete registration.
  • · A country's own reported figure may differ substantially from this modelled series.

What we can actually see

Coverage is wildly uneven, and that unevenness is a finding rather than a footnote. Life expectancy is near-universal; the survey-based indicators are not. Sorted by how much of the world reports at all.

IndicatorCountriesYearsRead atObservations
Life expectancy217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,071
Fertility rate217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,073
Population217 / 2171960–20252025 (217)14,292
Electricity access216 / 2171990–20242024 (215)6,747
GDP per capita214 / 2171960–20252025 (186)11,764
Internet use213 / 2171990–20252024 (182)6,224
Primary enrolment209 / 2171970–20252023 (166)7,495
GDP per capita (PPP)203 / 2171990–20252025 (185)7,020
Education spending203 / 2171970–20252022 (164)5,124
CO₂ per person203 / 2171970–20242024 (203)11,165
Under-5 mortality196 / 2171960–20242024 (196)11,861
Maternal mortality194 / 2171985–20232023 (194)7,566
Inflation193 / 2171960–20252025 (165)9,136
Health spending193 / 2172000–20242023 (192)4,562
Unemployment187 / 2171991–20252025 (182)6,531
Extreme poverty171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Income inequality (Gini)171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Adult literacy170 / 2171970–20242022 (45)1,121
Military spending164 / 2171960–20242024 (147)7,909
Child stunting163 / 2171983–20242018 (48)1,129
Safe drinking water151 / 2172000–20242024 (148)3,716

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Nothing here is interpolated — where a country never reported, it is absent rather than estimated. Browse every country →