Sir Turley: In India, a woman dies every seven minutes in childbirth.

italisizy: Well, sure. But you make any population large enough you get all kinds of gaudy statistics.

Sir Turley: yep

italisizy: The real meat is that 301 in every 100,000 dies from pregnancy related complications.
That's a reasonable statistic.
Where reasonable = useful.

Sir Turley: I think so

italisizy: Here's what's stupid about the AP. There is no context in the artice. We get told about the different provinces, but not how that compares to the west.
Wikipedia on Maternal Mortality Ratio
See, AP, how hard was that?
It's the third result in google for: deaths per 100000 births.