Table 2

Mortality rate in women of reproductive ages 12–49 years in Zimbabwe 2007–2008 and 2018–2019 by district, age of women and whether the death was pregnancy-related or not

	2007–2008			2018–2019			IRR* (95% CI)
	Population†	Deaths	IR‡	Population†	Deaths	IR‡	IRR* (95% CI)
District
Nkulumane	41 464	1479	35.7	42 985	397	9.2	0.26 (0.23 to 0.29)
Harare SE§	24 193	141	5.8	31 755	54	1.7	0.29 (0.21 to 0.40)
Harare W§	62 211	635	10.2	81 655	227	2.8	0.27 (0.23 to 0.32)
Mutare	123 954	974	7.9	148 616	367	2.5	0.31 (0.28 to 0.35)
Bindura	43 220	326	7.5	58 789	133	2.3	0.30 (0.24 to 0.37)
Mutoko	37 956	331	8.7	44 069	82	1.9	0.21 (0.17 to 0.27)
Zvimba	67 396	548	8.1	85 113	156	1.8	0.23 (0.19 to 0.27)
Chivi	47 866	264	5.5	49 311	114	2.3	0.42 (0.33 to 0.52)
Tsholotsho	34 533	357	10.3	31 363	79	2.5	0.24 (0.19 to 0.31)
Matobo	28 037	314	11.2	25 052	128	5.1	0.46 (0.37 to 0.56)
Kwekwe	89 516	819	9.1	105 468	119	1.1	0.12 (0.10 to 0.15)
Age-group
12–14	77 544	82	1.1	87 675	26	0.3	0.28 (0.17 to 0.44)
15–19	133 104	228	1.7	132 452	117	0.9	0.52 (0.41 to 0.65)
20–24	115 701	589	5.1	115 236	159	1.4	0.27 (0.23 to 0.32)
25–29	89 201	1090	12.2	104 593	194	1.9	0.15 (0.13 to 0.18)
30–34	63 110	1358	21.5	90 122	321	3.6	0.17 (0.15 to 0.19)
35–39	47 467	1278	26.9	73 296	383	5.2	0.19 (0.17 to 0.22)
40–44	41 202	794	19.3	60 250	348	5.8	0.30 (0.26 to 0.34)
45–49	33 015	769	23.3	40 551	308	7.6	0.33 (0.28 to 0.37)
Pregnancy-related death
Yes	45 579	325	7.1	59 576	137	2.3	0.32 (0.26 to 0.39)
No	554 765	5863	10.6	644 600	1719	2.7	0.25 (0.24 to 0.27)
Total unweighted	600 344	6188	10.3	704 176	1856	2.6	0.26 (0.24 to 0.27)
Total weighted**	681 634	7176	10.5	803 614	2145	2.7	0.25 (0.24 to 0.27)

*Weighted by district location to account for clustering of deaths within districts (where mortality risk factors are similar) in the pooled sample.
†Year 2007 and 2018 population projections were from Zimbabwe’s Statistics Department (ZimStats).
‡Mortality rate obtained using the formula: (number died / population) × 1000.
§Harare South-Eastern and Harare Western Districts.
.IR, incidence rate; IRR, incidence rate ratio.