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Worked out example: 8
Suppose in Nepal in 2009 A.D., there were 2069415 live births but 318 mothers died in the
same year. Calculate maternal mortality rate in Nepal in that year.

Solution:

Given,
In Nepal in 20009 A.D.,
Total live births = 2069415
Total deaths of mother = 318

Maternal mortality rate (MMR) = ?
We know,
Total deaths of mothers in a place in a year
MMR = × 100000
Total live births in the place in the same year
318
= × 100000
2069415
= 15. 36 per 100000
∴ MMR of Nepal was calculated as 15. 36 per 100000 in 2009 A.D.

In the above example, MMR is calculated as 15. 36 per 100000. It means that nearly 15
mothers died among 100000 live births in 2009 A.D.

Measurement of Migration
Migration is the movement of people from one place
to another either permanently or temporarily due to
various reasons. Actually people migrate from one
place to another due to pull and push factors.

Pull Factors Fig: 3
Those factors which attract people to come to live in a particular place are called pull factors.
For example, Availability of facilities like health education, sanitation, transportation,
communication, drinking water, suitable climate, employment opportunities, availability
of cultivable land, security, entertainment facilities, etc.

Push Factors
Those factors which force people to leave a place and migrate to other places are called
push factors. For example scarcity of facilities like health, education, transportation,
communication, political conflict, insecurity, unfavourable climate, lack of cultivable
land, spreading of disease/epidemics, occurrence of natural calamities like flood,

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