Some 300,000 girls and women die from problems related to childbirth and 90 per cent of these are in developing nations, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) said on Wednesday.

According to the agency’s State of World Population 2018 report, there are 43 countries where women have more than four or more children, and 38 of these are in Africa.

UNFPA Director in Geneva, Monica Ferro, told UN News’s Daniel Johnson, that maternal health was “one of the best developmental indicators you can have”, before calling for more countries to increase people’s “reproductive choices”.