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Save the Children

Save the Children is an internationally active non-governmental organization that enforces children's rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries...

 State of the World's Mothers report (SOWM report) is an annual report by the International Save the Children Alliance

International Save the Children Alliance

The International Save The Children Alliance is a worldwide non-profit organisation which aims to improve the living of children. There are 27 Save the Children member organisations around the world....

, which compiles statistics on the health of mothers and children and uses them to produce rankings of nations within three groupings corresponding to varying levels of economic development. The reports compile a Women's Index and a Children's Index for countries for which sufficient data could be collected, and a Mother's Index where both of these could be calculated. The reports have been produced annually since the year 2000.

The recent SOWM 2010 report ranked Norway as the best country to be a mother, and Afghanistan the worst. The United States ranked only 26th among industrialized nations, in part because more young mothers died during childbirth or in following years than in many other countries and due to a poor standard for maternity leave and benefits. Among the middle-income nations Cuba was ranked highest, surpassing some of the wealthier nations. In poorer countries the intervention of female health workers was the most important factor, because in many cases women were prevented from seeing male doctors and traditional advice within families was unreliable.

Findings

The report describes several key findings:

• There are 57 countries with critical shortages of healthcare personnel
  Health Human Resources
  Health human resources — also known as “human resources for health” or “health workforce” — is defined as “all people engaged in actions whose primary intent is to enhance health”, according to the World Health Organization's World Health Report 2006. Human resources for health are identified as...
  
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• Midwives and other female healthcare workers are especially important.
• Small amounts of spending on community healthcare workers
  Community health worker
  Community health workers are members of a community who are chosen by community members or organizations to provide basic health and medical care to their community...
  
   can be helpful: workers with six weeks' training in Bangladesh reduced newborn mortality by 34%.
• Educating family members is an effective tool.
• Countries that "train and deploy more front-line female health workers" have greatly reduced infant mortality (42 and 64% in Indonesia and Bangladesh).

Press coverage

The reports have been widely covered in the world press, with attention for local strengths and weaknesses. For example, USA Today

USA Today

USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...

 focused on the low ranking of the U.S. (28th place, below Estonia, Latvia, and Croatia) due to high rates of maternal and infant mortality, low preschool enrollment, and a particularly weak maternal leave benefit. It quoted the report: ABC News

ABC News

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 interviewed physicians and nonprofit leaders who questioned whether global comparisons could be made reliably, due to possible differences in the definition of ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, and abortion statistics. Relevant factors may include lack of health insurance, illegal immigration

Illegal immigration

Illegal immigration is the migration into a nation in violation of the immigration laws of that jurisdiction. Illegal immigration raises many political, economical and social issues and has become a source of major controversy in developed countries and the more successful developing countries.In...

 by women with poor prenatal care, and maternal obesity statistics, but according to Michael Katz, a senior vice president at the March of Dimes

March of Dimes

The March of Dimes Foundation is a United States nonprofit organization that works to improve the health of mothers and babies.-Organization:...

 Birth Defects Foundation, "The major question I would ask is, 'Why do African American populations have worse results than the white population?'"

Pravda.ru

Pravda

Pravda was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991....

 and Sify

Sify

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 picked up an IANS

Indo-Asian News Service

Indo-Asian News Service or IANS is India's largest private news agency. The IANS is run by a group of professional journalists.The IANS was founded by Indian American publisher Gopal Raju as the India Abroad News Service. It was later renamed the Indo-Asian News Service...

/EFE

EFE

EFE is a Spanish news agency created in 1939 by Spain's former minister of the press and propaganda Ramón Serrano Súñer and Manuel Aznar Zubigaray....

 report focusing on Cuba's rating as the best place to be a mother in the developing world. The Herald Sun

Herald Sun

The Herald Sun is a morning tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia. It is published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Limited, itself a subsidiary of News Corporation. It is available for purchase throughout Melbourne, Regional Victoria, Tasmania, the Australian Capital...

 boasted Australia's second-best placement for mothers, quoting a happy mother about hospital, maternal and child health support, and 12-month workplace maternal leave. However, the Adelaide Advertiser focused on Australia's lower [28th] ranking on the Children's Index, due in part to a child mortality rate three times higher for aboriginal infants. It quoted Save The Children's Annie Pettitt:

An editorial in the Philippine Daily Inquirer

Philippine Daily Inquirer

The Philippine Daily Inquirer, popularly known as the Inquirer, is the most widely read broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines, with a daily circulation of 260,000 copies. It is one of the Philippines' newspapers of record...

 discussed explanations for the Philippine's 48th-place ranking in the second tier. The column attributed much of the problem to a "brain drain", though it described as "much too high" the SOWM report's figure that 85% of Filipino nurses leave to pursue better pay and standards of living overseas. It questioned standards at "diploma mill

Diploma mill

A diploma mill is an organization that awards academic degrees and diplomas with substandard or no academic study and without recognition by official educational accrediting bodies. The purchaser can then claim to hold an academic degree, and the organization is motivated by making a profit...

s" and called for incentives to bring health professionals into poor communities, while criticizing the chilling effects of a "raid on a training session of health-care workers" as subversives in Morong, Rizal

Morong, Rizal

Morong is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Rizal, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 50,538 inhabitants in 8,988 households. A popular attraction is Spanish-era St. Jerome's Parish Church...

. The Philippines local chapter of Save the Children produced a State of Filipino Mothers report in 2008 with rankings by province.

The Times of India

The Times of India

The Times of India is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. TOI has the largest circulation among all English-language newspaper in the world, across all formats . It is owned and managed by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd...

 lamented India's 73rd of 77th place in the second tier, describing a critical shortage of 74,000 Asha

Asha

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s and 21,066 auxiliary nurse midwives below governmental norms, and that thousands of women were dying because they could not access the most basic healthcare facilities, or that if they were available they were of low quality.

Though data for some countries are not known with much certainty, the SOWM 2010 report has many findings in common with a recent study published in The Lancet

The Lancet

The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal. It is one of the world's best known, oldest, and most respected general medical journals...

, which found that 23 of 181 countries are on track to achieve Millennium Development Goal 5 of a 75% reduction in maternal mortality rate between 1990 and 2015.

Activism

The 2010 report was released by Save the Children in Canada on May 4, 10:00 a.m., as a part of an action directed toward members of Parliament in support of an announcement by Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Canada

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 Stephen Harper

Stephen Harper

Stephen Joseph Harper is the 22nd and current Prime Minister of Canada and leader of the Conservative Party. Harper became prime minister when his party formed a minority government after the 2006 federal election...

 that child and maternal health would be the top priority at the 36th G8 summit

36th G8 summit

The 36th G8 summit was held in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada, from June 25 to June 26, 2010. In this year's meeting, the G8 leaders agreed in reaffirming the group's essential and continuing role in international affairs...

 in Huntsville, Ontario

Huntsville, Ontario

Huntsville is a town in the Muskoka Region of Ontario, Canada. It is located north of Toronto and south of North Bay....

 in June. As described in the press release:

Data

The dataset on which the rankings are based is as follows:

Nation	Lifetime risk of maternal death Maternal death Maternal death, or maternal mortality, also "obstetrical death" is the death of a woman during or shortly after a pregnancy. In 2010, researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, estimated global maternal mortality in 2008 at 342,900 , of... (1 in N)	% births attended by skilled health personnel	% using modern contraception	Female life expectancy at birth	Expected years formal schooling for females	Maternal leave (days)	Maternal leave (% wages)	Ratio estimated male to female income	% national government seats held by women	Under 5 mortality per 1000 births	% children moderately or severely underweight	Gross pre-primary enrollment ratio (%)	Ratio of girls to boys enrolled in primary school	Gross secondary enrollment ratio (%)	% with access to safe drinking water	Economic tier	Mother's Index rank in tier	Women's Index rank in tier	Children's Index rank in tier
@	-9999992005	-9999992008	-9999992008	-9999992009	-9999992008	-9999992009	-9999992009	-9999992007	-9999992010	-9999992008	-9999992008	-9999992008	-9999992008	-9999992008	-9999992006	-999999	-9999992010	-9999992010	-9999992010
Albania	490	100	22	80	11	365		0.54	16	14	0	49	1	78	100	1	1.43	1.43	1.42
Australia	13300	100	71	84	21	365	0 —	0.7	27	6	0	101	1	148	100	1	1.02	1.01	1.28
Austria	21500	100	47	83	15	112	100	0.4	28	4	0	92	1	100	100	1	1.26	1.33	1.05
Belarus	4800	100	56	76	15	126	100	0.63	32	13	0	102	1	95	100	1	1.33	1.28	1.36
Belgium	7800	100	73	83	16	105		0.64	38	5	0	121	1	110	100	1	1.09	1.11	1.13
Bosnia and Herzegovina	29000	100	11	78	13	365	50-100	0.61	19	15	0	11	1	89	100	1	1.41	1.36	1.43
Bulgaria	7400	100	40	77	14	135	90	0.68	21	11	0	82	1	105	100	1	1.34	1.31	1.31
Canada	11000	100	72	83	16	119	55	0.65	22	6	0	70	1	101	100	1	1.20	1.17	1.21
Croatia	10500	100	0 —	80	14	365	100	0.67	24	6	0	51	1	94	100	1	1.27	1.25	1.32
Czech Republic	18100	100	63	80	16	196	69	0.57	16	4	0	114	1	95	100	1	1.23	1.27	1.13
Denmark	17800	100	72	81	18	364	100	0.74	38	4	0	96	1	119	100	1	1.05	1.04	1.19
Estonia	2900	100	56	79	17	140	100	0.65	23	6	0	95	1	100	100	1	1.17	1.19	1.13
Finland	8500	100	75	83	18	105	70	0.73	40	3	0	64	1	111	100	1	1.07	1.06	1.18
France	6900	100	77	85	16	112	100	0.61	19	4	0	113	1	113	100	1	1.12	1.13	1.04
Germany	19200	100	66	83	16	98	100	0.59	33	4	0	108	1	101	100	1	1.09	1.14	1.03
Greece	25900	100	46	82	17	119	50	0.51	17	4	0	69	1	102	100	1	1.24	1.26	1.17
Hungary	13300	100	71	78	16	168	70	0.75	11	7	0	89	1	97	100	1	1.21	1.15	1.23
Iceland	12700	100	0 —	84	20	91	80	0.62	43	3	0	96	1	110	100	1	1.03	1.05	1.06
Ireland	47600	100	66	83	18	182	80	0.56	14	4	0	0 —	1	113	100	1	1.11	1.08	1.26
Italy	26600	100	41	84	17	152	80	0.49	21	4	0	101	1	100	100	1	1.17	1.24	1.02
Japan	11600	100	44	87	15	98	67	0.45	11	4	0	88	1	101	100	1	1.32	1.38	1.06
Latvia	8500	100	56	78	17	112	100	0.67	22	9	0	90	1	115	100	1	1.25	1.19	1.33
Lithuania	7800	100	33	78	17	126	100	0.7	19	7	0	69	1	99	100	1	1.22	1.21	1.27
Luxembourg	5000	100	0 —	82	13	112	100	0.57	20	3	0	86	1	95	100	1	1.29	1.34	1.09
Macedonia	6500	100	10	77	12	274	0 —	0.49	33	11	0	38	1	84	100	1	1.42	1.42	1.40
Malta	8300	100	43	82	15	98	100	0.45	9	6	0	101	1	98	100	1	1.35	1.41	1.13
Moldova, Republic of	3700	100	43	73	12	126	100	0.73	24	17	0	72	1	83	100	1	1.40	1.38	1.41
Montenegro		100	17	77	0 —	0 —	0 —	0.58	11	8	0	0 —	1	0 —	100	1	1.—	1.—	1.—
Netherlands	10200	100	65	82	17	112	100	0.67	42	5	0	101	1	120	100	1	1.08	1.09	1.22
New Zealand	5900	100	72	82	20	98	100	0.69	34	6	0	93	1	120	100	1	1.	1.	1.
Norway	7700	100	82	83	18	322-392	80-100	0.77	40	4	0	92	1	113	100	1	1.01	1.02	1.09
Poland	10600	100	28	80	16	112	100	0.59	20	7	0	60	1	100	100	1	1.29	1.29	1.29
Portugal	6400	100	63	82	16	120	100	0.6	27	4	0	80	1	101	100	1	1.19	1.22	1.08
Romania	3200	100	38	77	15	126	85	0.68	11	14	0	72	1	87	100	1	1.37	1.32	1.39
Russian Federation	2700	100	53	73	14	140	100	0.64	14	13	0	89	1	84	100	1	1.38	1.35	1.38
Serbia		100	19	77	14	365	100	0.59	22	7	0	57	1	90	100	1	1.36	1.40	1.35
Slovakia	13800	100	66	79	15	196	55	0.58	18	8	0	94	1	93	100	1	1.31	1.30	1.30
Slovenia	14200	100	63	82	18	105	100	0.61	14	4	0	80	1	94	100	1	1.16	1.12	1.20
Spain	16400	100	62	84	17	112	100	0.52	37	4	0	123	1	119	100	1	1.13	1.15	1.11
Sweden	17400	100	65	83	16	480	80	0.67	46	3	0	101	1	103	100	1	1.03	1.07	1.01
Switzerland	13800	100	78	84	15	98	80	0.62	29	5	0	101	1	96	100	1	1.15	1.18	1.12
Ukraine	5200	100	48	74	15	126	100	0.59	8	16	0	98	1	94	100	1	1.39	1.37	1.37
United Kingdom	8200	100	82	82	16	364	90	0.67	20	6	0	73	1	97	100	1	1.14	1.10	1.24
United States	4800	100	68	82	16	84	0 —	0.62	17	8	0	61	1	94	100	1	1.28	1.23	1.34
Algeria	220	95	52	74	13	0	0	0.36	8	41	4	108	1	83	85	2	2.52	2.52	2.41
Argentina	530	99	64	79	17	0	0	0.51	39	16	4	115	1	85	96	2	2.03	2.04	2.13
Armenia	980	100	19	77	12	0	0	0.57	9	23	4	80	1	88	98	2	2.35	2.36	2.37
Azerbaijan	670	88	13	73	13	0	0	0.44	11	36	10	116	1	106	78	2	2.53	2.51	2.54
Bahamas	2700	99	60	77	12	0	0	0.72	12	13	100 —	102	1	94	97	2	2.09	2.12	2.05
Bahrain	1300	98	31	78	15	0	0	0.51	3	12	9	105	1	97	0 —	2	2.24	2.26	2.17
Barbados	4400	100	53	80	16	0	0	0.65	10	11	6	105	1	103	100	2	2.03	2.03	2.02
Belize	560	95	31	79	12	0	0	0.43	0	19	6	120	1	75	91	2	2.51	2.54	2.30
Bolivia, Plurinational State of	89	66	34	68	14	0	0	0.61	25	54	6	108	1	82	86	2	2.33	2.29	2.52
Botswana	130	94	42	55	12	0	0	0.58	8	31	13	110	1	80	96	2	2.46	2.45	2.45
Brazil	370	97	70	76	14	0	0	0.6	9	22	2	130	1	100	91	2	2.15	2.15	2.19
Brunei Darussalam	2900	99	0 —	80	14	0	0	0.59	0 —	7	100 —	107	1	97	0 —	2	2.—	2.—	2.—
Cameroon	24	63	12	52	9	0	0	0.53	14	131	19	111	1	37	70	2	2.71	2.69	2.76
Cape Verde	120	78	46	74	11	0	0	0.49	18	29	9	101	1	68	80	2	2.48	2.50	2.49
Chile	3200	100	58	82	14	0	0	0.42	14	9	1	106	1	91	95	2	2.13	2.20	2.04
China	1300	98	86	75	11	0	0	0.68	21	21	7	112	1	74	88	2	2.18	2.13	2.42
Colombia	290	96	68	77	14	0	0	0.71	8	20	7	120	1	91	93	2	2.13	2.10	2.33
Congo	22	83	13	55	8	0	0	0.51	7	127	14	114	1	43	71	2	2.71	2.71	2.74
Costa Rica	1400	99	72	82	12	0	0	0.46	37	11	5	110	1	89	98	2	2.12	2.21	2.12
Côte d'Ivoire	27	57	8	59	5	0	0	0.34	9	114	20	74	1	26	81	2	2.76	2.76	2.78
Cuba	1400	100	72	81	19	0	0	0.49	43	6	4	102	1	91	91	2	2.01	2.01	2.10
Cyprus	6400	100	0 —	82	14	0	0	0.58	13	4	100 —	102	1	98	100	2	2.06	2.8	2.01
Dominican Republic	230	98	70	76	13	0	0	0.59	20	33	4	104	1	75	95	2	2.21	2.19	2.26
Ecuador	170	99	58	78	14	0	0	0.51	32	25	9	118	1	70	95	2	2.18	2.17	2.40
Egypt	230	79	58	72	10	0	0	0.27	2	23	8	100	1	79	98	2	2.57	2.61	2.24
El Salvador	190	92	66	76	12	0	0	0.46	19	18	9	115	1	64	84	2	2.41	2.39	2.56
Fiji	160	99	0 —	71	13	0	0	0.38	0 —	18	8	94	1	81	47	2	2.—	2.—	2.68
Gabon	53	86	12	62	12	0	0	0.59	15	77	12	134	1	53	87	2	2.57	2.45	2.70
Georgia	1100	98	27	75	13	0	0	0.38	7	30	2	107	1	90	99	2	2.43	2.55	2.10
Ghana	45	55	17	58	9	0	0	0.74	8	76	14	102	1	54	80	2	2.64	2.59	2.69
Guatemala	71	41	34	74	10	0	0	0.42	12	35	23	114	1	57	96	2	2.66	2.66	2.63
Guyana	90	83	33	71	12	0	0	0.41	30	61	12	109	1	102	93	2	2.45	2.48	2.48
Honduras	93	67	56	75	12	0	0	0.34	18	31	11	116	1	65	84	2	2.60	2.58	2.58
India	70	47	49	66	10	0	0	0.32	11	69	48	113	1	57	89	2	2.73	2.74	2.75
Indonesia	97	79	57	73	13	0	0	0.44	18	41	18	121	1	76	80	2	2.54	2.44	2.66
Iran, Islamic Republic of	300	97	59	73	15	0	0	0.32	3	32	5	128	1	80	94	2	2.42	2.43	2.35
Iraq	72	80	33	72	8	0	0	0 —	26	44	8	98	1	47	77	2	2.—	2.—	2.64
Israel	7800	99	52	83	16	0	0	0.64	19	5	100 —	111	1	91	100	2	2.02	2.02	2.02
Jamaica	240	97	66	76	12	0	0	0.58	13	31	2	90	1	90	93	2	2.29	2.30	2.29
Jordan	450	99	41	75	13	0	0	0.19	6	20	4	96	1	86	98	2	2.56	2.61	2.14
Kazakhstan	360	100	49	72	16	0	0	0.68	18	30	4	108	1	92	96	2	2.08	2.09	2.21
Kenya	39	42	32	55	9	0	0	0.65	10	128	21	112	1	58	57	2	2.70	2.64	2.79
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	140	97	58	70	0 —	0	0	0 —	16	55	23	0 —	1	0 —	100	2	2.—	2.—	2.—
Korea, Republic of	6100	100	75	83	16	0	0	0.52	15	5	100 —	104	1	97	92	2	2.05	2.06	2.07
Kuwait	9600	98	39	80	13	0	0	0.36	8	11	10	95	1	91	0 —	2	2.30	2.30	2.27
Kyrgyzstan	240	98	46	72	13	0	0	0.55	26	38	3	95	1	85	89	2	2.25	2.24	2.38
Lebanon	290	98	34	74	14	0	0	0.25	3	13	4	101	1	82	100	2	2.48	2.60	2.06
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	350	94	26	77	17	0	0	0.25	8	17	5	110	1	93	72	2	2.43	2.41	2.46
Malaysia	560	98	30	77	13	0	0	0.42	10	6	8	98	1	69	99	2	2.38	2.45	2.22
Mauritius	3300	98	39	76	13	0	0	0.42	17	17	15	99	1	88	100	2	2.31	2.35	2.27
Mexico	670	93	67	79	14	0	0	0.42	28	17	5	113	1	87	95	2	2.21	2.26	2.18
Micronesia, Federated States of		88	21	75	12	0	0	0 —	0	39	15	110	1	91	94	2	2.—	2.—	2.49
Mongolia	840	99	61	70	14	0	0	0.87	4	41	6	102	1	95	72	2	2.10	2.04	2.53
Morocco	150	63	52	74	10	0	0	0.24	11	36	10	107	1	56	83	2	2.68	2.73	2.61
Namibia	170	81	54	62	12	0	0	0.63	27	42	21	112	1	66	93	2	2.37	2.30	2.65
Nicaragua	150	74	69	77	11	0	0	0.34	21	27	7	117	1	68	79	2	2.57	2.57	2.59
Nigeria	18	39	9	49	8	0	0	0.42	7	186	27	93	1	30	47	2	2.77	2.75	2.80
Occupied Palestinian Territory		99	39	75	14	0	0	0.12	0 —	27	3	80	1	92	89	2	2.—	2.—	2.42
Oman	420	99	18	78	11	0	0	0.23	0	12	18	75	1	88	79	2	2.69	2.70	2.67
Pakistan	74	39	22	67	6	0	0	0.18	22	89	38	85	1	33	90	2	2.75	2.76	2.77
Panama	270	92	54	79	14	0	0	0.58	9	23	8	111	1	71	92	2	2.26	2.21	2.39
Papua New Guinea	55	53	20	64	6	0	0	0.74	1	69	26	55	1	0 —	40	2	2.74	2.72	2.81
Paraguay	170	82	70	74	12	0	0	0.64	13	28	4	108	1	66	77	2	2.34	2.28	2.54
Peru	140	71	47	76	14	0	0	0.59	28	24	5	113	1	98	84	2	2.17	2.18	2.31
Philippines	140	62	36	74	12	0	0	0.58	21	32	28	108	1	81	93	2	2.48	2.41	2.62
Qatar	2700	99	32	77	15	0	0	0.28	0	10	6	109	1	93	100	2	2.39	2.49	2.09
Saudi Arabia	1400	91	29	76	13	0	0	0.16	0	21	14	98	1	95	95	2	2.62	2.67	2.32
Singapore	6200	100	53	83	0 —	0	0	0.53	23	3	3	0 —	1	0 —	100	2	2.—	2.—	2.—
South Africa	110	91	60	53	14	0	0	0.6	45	67	12	105	1	95	93	2	2.16	2.14	2.51
Sri Lanka	850	99	53	78	13	0	0	0.56	6	15	22	105	1	87	82	2	2.40	2.33	2.60
Suriname	530	90	41	73	13	0	0	0.44	26	27	10	114	1	75	92	2	2.36	2.38	2.47
Swaziland	120	69	47	46	10	0	0	0.71	14	83	7	108	1	53	60	2	2.63	2.53	2.72
Syrian Arab Republic	210	93	43	76	11	0	0	0.2	12	16	10	124	1	74	89	2	2.64	2.68	2.42
Tajikistan	160	88	33	70	10	0	0	0.65	20	64	18	102	1	84	67	2	2.55	2.40	2.71
Thailand	500	97	80	72	14	0	0	0.63	13	14	9	104	1	83	98	2	2.11	2.10	2.19
Trinidad and Tobago	1400	98	38	73	12	0	0	0.55	27	35	6	103	1	89	94	2	2.27	2.34	2.25
Tunisia	500	95	52	76	15	0	0	0.28	28	21	3	108	1	90	94	2	2.28	2.36	2.14
Turkey	880	91	43	75	11	0	0	0.26	9	22	3	98	1	82	97	2	2.60	2.65	2.16
Turkmenistan	290	100	45	69	0 —	0	0	0.65	17	48	11	0 —	1	0 —	72	2	2.—	2.—	2.—
United Arab Emirates	1000	99	24	79	12	0	0	0.27	23	8	14	108	1	94	100	2	2.46	2.56	2.23
Uruguay	2100	100	75	80	16	0	0	0.55	15	14	5	114	1	92	100	2	2.07	2.0'7	2.08
Uzbekistan	1400	100	59	71	11	0	0	0.64	22	38	5	94	1	102	88	2	2.23	2.23	2.36
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	610	95	62	77	15	0	0	0.48	18	18	5	103	1	81	83	2	2.20	2.16	2.34
Vietnam	280	88	68	77	10	0	0	0.69	26	14	20	108	1	67	92	2	2.31	2.24	2.57
Zimbabwe		69	58	46	9	0	0	0.58	15	96	17	104	1	41	81	2	2.67	2.61	2.73
Afghanistan	8	14	16	44	5	0	0	0.24	27	257	39	106	0.66		22	3	3.40	3.40	3.42
Angola	12	47	5	50	4	0	0	0.64	39	220	16	84	0.83		51	3	3.30	3.29	3.34
Bangladesh	51	18	48	68	8	0	0	0.51	19	54	46	94	1.07		80	3	3.15	3.15	3.14
Benin	20	74	6	63	6	0	0	0.52	11	121	23	117	0.87		65	3	3.26	3.28	3.17
Bhutan	55	71	31	68	11	0	0	0.39	9	81	19	106	1		81	3	3.06	3.12	3.03
Burkina Faso	22	54	13	55	5	0	0	0.66	15	169	32	73	0.87		72	3	3.27	3.26	3.31
Burundi	16	34	9	52	7	0	0	0.77	31	168	39	136	0.95		71	3	3.17	3.14	3.27
Cambodia	48	44	27	63	9	0	0	0.68	21	90	36	116	0.94		65	3	3.10	3.08	3.21
Central African Republic	25	53	9	49	0 —	0	0	0.59	10	173	29	77	0.71		66	3	3.—	3.—	3.37
Chad	11	14	2	50	4	0	0	0.7	5	209	37	83	0.7		48	3	3.38	3.35	3.40
Comoros	52	62	19	68	10	0	0	0.58	0	105	25	122	0.88		85	3	3.12	3.11	3.08
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	13	74	6	49	6	0	0	0.46	8	199	31	90	0.83		46	3	3.35	3.32	3.39
Djibouti	35	61	17	57	4	0	0	0.57	14	95	33	55	0.88		92	3	3.28	3.30	3.17
Equatorial Guinea	28	65	6	52	7	0	0	0.36	10	148	19	99	0.95		43	3	3.31	3.31	3.24
Eritrea	44	28	5	62	5	0	0	0.5	22	58	40	52	0.82		60	3	3.32	3.34	3.33
Ethiopia	27	6	14	57	7	0	0	0.67	22	109	38	98	0.89		42	3	3.25	3.20	3.32
Gambia	32	57	13	58	8	0	0	0.63	8	106	20	86	1.06		86	3	3.13	3.17	3.05
Guinea	19	46	4	60	7	0	0	0.68	0 —	146	26	90	0.85		70	3	3.23	3.22	3.23
Guinea-Bissau	13	39	6	50	5	0	0	0.46	10	195	19	120	0.67		57	3	3.37	3.38	3.35
Haiti	44	26	24	63	0 —	0	0	0.37	4	72	22	0 —	0 —		58	3	3.—	3.—	3.—
Lao People's Democratic Republic	33	20	29	67	8	0	0	0.76	25	61	37	112	0.91		60	3	3.09	3.06	3.19
Lesotho	45	55	35	46	10	0	0	0.73	24	79	14	108	0.99		78	3	3.03	3.03	3.02
Liberia	12	46	10	60	9	0	0	0.5	13	145	24	91	0.9		64	3	3.21	3.21	3.22
Madagascar	38	51	17	63	10	0	0	0.71	9	106	42	152	0.97		47	3	3.14	3.08	3.30
Malawi	18	54	38	55	9	0	0	0.74	21	100	21	120	1.03		76	3	3.04	3.06	3.07
Maldives	200	84	34	74	12	0	0	0.54	7	28	30	112	0.94		83	3	3.01	3.01	3.04
Mali	15	49	6	49	7	0	0	0.44	10	194	32	91	0.83		60	3	3.34	3.33	3.36
Mauritania	22	61	8	59	8	0	0	0.58	22	118	31	98	1.07		60	3	3.19	3.18	3.20
Mozambique	45	55	12	49	7	0	0	0.9	39	130	18	114	0.88		42	3	3.08	3.04	3.26
Myanmar	110	57	33	64	9	0	0	0.61	0 —	98	32	115	0.99		80	3	3.—	3.—	3.09
Nepal	31	19	44	68	8	0	0	0.61	33	51	45	124	0.95		89	3	3.10	3.10	3.12
Niger	7	33	5	53	4	0	0	0.34	12	167	43	58	0.78		42	3	3.39	3.39	3.41
Rwanda	16	52	26	53	9	0	0	0.79	56	112	23	151	1.01		65	3	3.02	3.02	3.10
Senegal	21	52	10	58	7	0	0	0.55	23	108	17	84	1.02		77	3	3.18	3.23	3.06
Sierra Leone	8	43	6	49	6	0	0	0.74	13	194	21	158	0.88		53	3	3.29	3.25	3.38
Solomon Islands	100	70	0 —	68	9	0	0	0.51	0	36	12	107	0.97		70	3	3.07	3.13	3.01
Somalia	12	33	1	52	0 —	0	0	0 —	7	200	36	0 —	0 —		29	3	3.—	3.—	3.—
Sudan	53	49	6	60	5	0	0	0.33	19	109	31	69	0.88		70	3	3.32	3.36	3.25
Tanzania, United Republic of	24	43	20	57	5	0	0	0.74	31	104	22	110	0.99		55	3	3.16	3.18	3.13
Timor-Leste	35	18	7	63	10	0	0	0.53	29	93	49	107	0.94		62	3	3.19	3.16	3.28
Togo	38	62	11	65	8	0	0	0.45	11	98	21	105	0.86		59	3	3.21	3.24	3.14
Uganda	25	42	18	54	10	0	0	0.69	32	135	20	120	1.01		64	3	3.05	3.05	3.11
Yemen	39	36	19	65	7	0	0	0.25	0.3	69	46	85	0.8		66	3	3.36	3.37	3.29
Zambia	27	47	27	47	7	0	0	0.56	14	148	19	119	0.98		58	3	3.23	3.26	3.16
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Additional maps (statistics pertaining to females)

External links

• Save the Children State of the World's Mothers report, 2010