At the same time, some known pregnancy-related causes of cerebral palsy have been brought under control through vaccines.

A similar number are stillborn, and 0.5 million mothers die from pregnancy-related causes.

Meanwhile, nearly 2,000 women a year die from pregnancy-related causes in Peru.

Here are some of the statistics from the report: *One woman a minute dies of pregnancy-related causes.

Statistics show that 1 in 30 women from the bottom ranking countries will die from pregnancy-related causes.

One woman dies from pregnancy-related causes about every 30 minutes, and maternal mortality rates are 60 times higher than in industrialized countries, the report said.

At least one in 25 women in Mali die from pregnancy-related causes or resulting lifelong complications.

In 2011, the mortality ratio in Thailand was 48, which implies that for every 100,000 live births, 48 women die from pregnancy-related causes.

Maternal mortality also remains alarmingly high in too many countries, with more than half a million women worldwide dying prematurely each year owing to pregnancy-related causes.

More than half a million women die from pregnancy-related causes and childbirth complications each year.