Save the Children’s annual State of the World’s Mothers report 2013- ▻http://blogs.savethechildren.org.uk/2013/05/democratic-republic-of-congo-worst-place-to-be-a-mum
Le Royaume-Uni se place derrière des pays beaucoup moins riches,
The UK comes 23rd on the list, with fewer women in Parliament and higher maternal and infant mortality rates than much of Europe.
According to the statistics, the UK now has a higher rate of under-five child death than 21 other European countries, including countries with lower GDPs such as Cyprus, Portugal and Czech Republic.
Women in Britain are at a higher risk of dying during pregnancy or childbirth than women in less wealthier countries like Slovakia, Montenegro and Lithuania.
Some of the reasons behind Britain’s relative low position on maternal and infant mortality include:
– the age of women having babies – due to teenage and IVF pregnancy rates, the UK has a higher proportion of young and older mothers than much of Europe
– the poor health status of some pregnant women, including suffering from obesity or cardiac disease
– poverty and inequality – women with partners who are unemployed are six times more likely to die from maternal causes than those with partners in work.
Les États-Unis font pire et se placent 30ième,
▻http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/sites/default/files/images/State_of_World_Mothers_2013.pdf (page 67)
Why doesn’t the United States do better in the rankings?
The United States ranks 30th on this year’s Index. Although the U.S. performs quite well on educational and economic status (both 10th best in the world) it lags behind all other top-ranked countries on maternal health (46th in the world) and children’s well-being (41st in the world) and performs quite poorly on political status (89th in the world). To elaborate:
• In the United States, women face a 1 in 2,400 risk of maternal death. Only five developed countries in the world – Albania, Latvia, Moldova, the Russian Federation and Ukraine – perform worse than the United States on this indicator. A woman in the U.S. is more than 10 times as likely as a woman in Estonia, Greece or Singapore to eventually die from a pregnancy- related cause.
• In the United States, the under-5 mortality rate is 7.5 per 1,000 live births. This is roughly on par with rates in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Qatar and Slovakia. At this rate, children in the U.S. are three times as likely as children in Iceland to die before their 5th birthday.
• Women hold only 18 percent of seats in the United States Congress. Half of all countries in the world perform better on this indicator than the U.S. Sixteen countries have more than double this percentage of seats occupied by women. In Finland and Sweden, for example, women hold 43 and 45 percent of parliamen- tary seats, respectively.