(Dagbladet): Norway is the best country to be a mother in, according to Save the Children.
Front respectively Finland, Iceland, Denmark and Sweden, Norway takes first place in the organization’s annual ranking of the countries in the world mothers do best.
According to the survey mothers the worst conditions in Mali, Central African Republic, Congo and Somalia.
The 16th rank
The rating was published late Monday evening Norwegian time, and assumes maternal health, education, income and position of women in society.
According to news agency AFP, this year’s ranking the 16th in the series. In all, 179 countries are included in the ranking.
The Scandinavian countries have consistently been ranked among the world’s best “mommy-land” in Save the Children’s rankings. Last year, Finland on top, followed by Norway.
Only Australia in ninth place is the only non-European country in this year’s ranking is among the world’s ten best “mom-land.”
Major differences
All of the countries are ranked as the poorest are all African countries south of Sahara. Nine of these are ravaged by conflict, writes AFP.
The differences between the ten best and ten worst countries on the list, is striking.
In the top ten countries lose one of 290 women a child before the child reaches five years. In the ten worst losing all one in eight mothers a child before the age of five.
Rated also cities
Save the Children has also examined which of the world’s 24 richest capitals child mortality is highest. US capital Washington D.C. tops the list with 7.9 deaths per 1000. Stockholm and Oslo have left the lowest measured infant mortality, only 2 per 1000.
Save the Children CEO Carolyn Miles told AFP that the material they have gathered confirms that a country’s economic prosperity is not the only reason that mothers feel good in a country. Adopted policies are also important.
– Norway has prosperity, but they also invest the prosperity of mothers and children, which is very high priority, says Miles.
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