Mother's Day Report Card: Best and Worst Countries to Be a Mother;Sweden Tops List, Burkina Faso, Mali Tie for Last, U.S. Ranked 11th

From: U.S. Newswire | Date: May 2, 2005 | Copyright information

WESTPORT, Conn., May 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Save the Children, a U.S.-based independent global humanitarian organization, released today its annual Mothers' Index that ranks the best - and worst - places to be a mother and a child. The Index, highlighted in the organization's State of the World's Mothers 2005 report, ranks the status of mothers and children in 110 countries based on ten indicators pertaining to health and education. The Index reveals that where mothers survive and thrive, children survive and thrive.

Scandinavian countries sweep the top rankings of the best places to be a ...

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