The best and worst places to be a mother
Published by: Save the Children, 2007
Via: Docuticker
Egypt has made the most progress since 1990 — and Iraq the least — in saving the lives of children under 5, according to the eighth annual State of the World’s Mothers Report issued today by Save the Children, a U.S.-based global independent humanitarian organization.
The report includes the first-ever Child Survival Progress Rankings of 60 developing countries, which together account for 94 percent of all child deaths worldwide. The rankings indicate which countries are succeeding and which are failing to save the lives of children under the age of 5.
According to the report, Iraq’s child mortality rate has increased by a staggering 150 percent since 1990. Some 122,000 Iraqi children died in 2005 before reaching their fifth birthday. More than half of these deaths were among newborn babies in the first month of life.
(http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/mothers/2007/SOWM-2007-final.pdf)
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