This is the safest place in the world to have a baby, reveals UNICEF
| Feb 20, 2018, 16:00 IST
UNICEF has now revealed the safest place in the world to have a baby. Shockingly the UK has a higher mortality rate for newborn babies than Cuba and Lithuania, states a report. Now UNICEF has revealed that Japan is the safest place to have a child. Their neonatal mortality rate is equivalent to 1 death in every 1,111 live births. The United Kingdom, on the other hand, comes in at the 30th place with one death in every 385 births, just behind Lithuania with its rate of one in 400. Cuba sits in 27th place with one death in 417.
“While we have more than halved the number of deaths among children under the age of five in the last quarter century, we have not made similar progress in ending deaths among children less than one-month-old,” said UNICEF's executive director. “Given that the majority of these deaths are preventable, clearly, we are failing the world’s poorest babies,” she said. The report also states that 8 of the 10 most dangerous places to have a baby is sub-Saharan Africa where women hardly receive any assistance during pregnancy and delivery. Stay tuned for more updates.
“While we have more than halved the number of deaths among children under the age of five in the last quarter century, we have not made similar progress in ending deaths among children less than one-month-old,” said UNICEF's executive director. “Given that the majority of these deaths are preventable, clearly, we are failing the world’s poorest babies,” she said. The report also states that 8 of the 10 most dangerous places to have a baby is sub-Saharan Africa where women hardly receive any assistance during pregnancy and delivery. Stay tuned for more updates.