| Leading Causes of Maternal Deaths in Karnataka (2000) | ||
| Major Cause of Death With Code | No. of deaths | % to Total Maternal deaths |
| Infections of Genito Urinary tract in pregnancy (O23) | ||
| Oedema, Proteinuria and Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, child birth and the puerperium (O10-O16) | ||
| Complication pre-dominantly related to the puerperium (O85-O92) | ||
| Other complications of pregnancy and delivery (O20-O22,O24-O63,O75,O80-O84) | ||
| Spontaneous abortion (O03) | ||
| Other pregnancies with abortive outcome (O00-O02 & O05-O08) | ||
| Others | ||
| Total maternal deaths | ||
| All other Female deaths | ||
| Total Female deaths | ||
