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The Worst Places to be a mother– Save the Children

Juan Cole 05/07/2013

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Save the Children has issued its annual report on mothers and newborns. The best place to be a mother? Finland! The worst? The Congo.

Save the Children issued a video on motherhood in Mozambique:

The US only ranks 30th, with the worst infant mortality rate in the industrialized world. Every year here, 11,500 newborns die the same day they are born. Lack of universal health care is implicated, and it may be that the numbers will start to improve over the coming years.

But India, where women have low status and there is little social safety net, has 56,000 maternal deaths a year– the worst record in the world.

But subsaharan Africa is where the worst situations for mothers cluster.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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