Sweden Tops List, Niger Ranks Last, United States Ranks 27th for Second Year in a Row We alarm on the world's leaders to crop banal of how motherhood and adolescent accouchement are faring in every country Investing in the a lot of basal affiliation of all -- the one amid a mother and her adolescent -- is the aboriginal and best footfall in ensuring advantageous children, affluent families and able communities. These statistics go far above simple numbers The animal anguish and absent opportunities represented in these numbers appeal mothers everywhere be accustomed the basal accoutrement they charge to breach the aeon of abjection and advance the above of activity for themselves, their children, and for ancestors to come.
Westport, Conn. (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 5, 2009 -- Nordic countries advance the apple as the best places to be a mother, while sub-Saharan African countries rank a allotment of the affliction places for mothers, according to Save the Children's 10th anniversary Mothers' Index. The all-around baronial is accent in the organization's State of the World's Mothers 2009 report, which focuses on the hotlink amid advance in aboriginal acquirements opportunities for adolescent accouchement and academy success.
Kadiatu with her baby Kadija in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone ranks a allotment of the a lot of difficult places in the apple to be a mother, according to Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers 2009 report.
Top 10 Best Places- Bottom 10 Worst Places:
The Mothers' Index ranks the best and a lot of difficult places to be a mother a allotment of 158 countries. Among the top 10 best places: Sweden ranks first, followed by Norway, Australia, Iceland, Denmark, New Zealand, Finland, Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands. Among the basal 10 places: Niger ranks last, followed by Sierra Leone, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Yemen, Sudan, Angola, Eritrea and Djibouti.
The United States placed 27th for the additional year in a row, primarily because it has one of the accomplished affectionate bloodshed ante a allotment of automated countries -- 1 in 4,800.
"We alarm on the world's leaders to crop banal of how motherhood and adolescent accouchement are faring in every country," said Charles MacCormack, admiral and CEO of Save the Children. "Investing in the a lot of basal affiliation of all -- the one amid a mother and her adolescent -- is the aboriginal and best footfall in ensuring advantageous children, affluent families and able communities."
The Mothers' Index is based on an appraisal of indicators of women's and children's bloom and well-being. The top 10 countries, in general, accept actual top array for mothers' and children's health, educational and bread-and-butter status, while the 10 bottom-ranked countries are a about-face image, assuming ailing on all indicators.
Download the abounding address and controlling arbitrary at: www.savethechildren.org/worlds-mothers-report-download
How Countries Compare:
- 1 adolescent in 4 does not ability his or her fifth altogether in Afghanistan and Sierra Leone. In Sweden, alone 1 adolescent in 333 dies afore age 5. Fewer than 15 percent of births are abounding by accomplished bloom cadre in Afghanistan, Chad and Ethiopia; 99 percent of births are abounding by accomplished bloom cadre in Sri Lanka. Over the advance of her lifetime, 1 woman in 8 will die in abundance or accouchement in Afghanistan and Sierra Leone. Compare that to 1 in added than 47,000 in Ireland. A archetypal woman in Angola, Djibouti and Niger has beneath than four years of ancestry against a archetypal woman in Australia or New Zealand who receives over 20 years of academic education. On average, a babe complete in Swaziland will not abide to see her 40th birthday. Compare that to the archetypal babe complete in Japan who will abide to be 86 years old. "These statistics go far above simple numbers," said MacCormack. "The animal anguish and absent opportunities represented in these numbers appeal mothers everywhere be accustomed the basal accoutrement they charge to breach the aeon of abjection and advance the above of activity for themselves, their children, and for ancestors to come."
For complete rankings of all 158 countries in the Mothers' Index, download the abounding address at: www.savethechildren.org/worlds-mothers-report-download
Save the Children is the arch absolute alignment that creates abiding change for accouchement in charge in the United States and about the world. Save the Children USA is a affiliate of the International Save the Children Alliance, a all-around arrangement of 27 absolute Save the Children organizations alive to ensure the abundance and aegis of accouchement in added than 120 countries.
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