SED 6 - Mothers all around the world...

[nia_kantorka]

At work I screen lots of medical newsletters on a daily basis. Today I've stumbled over 'The State of the World's Mothers 2015' report. It compares the conditions of/for mothers all around the world (179 countries were included into the stats).

You find data about mother's health, mortality of children (under the age of 5), education, income and the influence women/mothers have in their countries (political status).

The best conditions to live have mothers in
1. Norway
2. Finnland
3. Iceland
4. Denmark
5. Sweden
6. Netherlands
7. Spain
8. Germany
9. Australia
10. Belgium

France takes place 23 in the ranking, the UK #24 and the US #33. And for some other friends who might be interested; Slovenia #15, Austria #11, Slovakia #34 and Bolivia #88. Worst are the conditions for mothers or children in Somalia #179.

It's really intersting though very frightening to learn the absolute numbers here.

Comments

[my_thestral]

Wow, I see the pattern here: Northern Europe, here I come! :) Meh, no. 15 is not that bad, but I'm surprised over UK and France being lower than what seems to be the EU pretty high average - I wonder why is that!? I would think UK at least would be much higher. I'm not surprised about the US, though.
Thanks for that, that's very interesting info for this anthropologist here. And now I'm going to let my BF gloat a little, how much better his country is than the one we live in. :)

[candamira.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Nordics. I always had that feeling that life in general is a bit more relaxed there. In the sense of a government not draining every ounce of energy from their citizens by ridiculous amounts of bureaucracy you have to stem in your free time or practically forcing both parents to have a job because maintaining a living is that expensive. I love the Nordics. If we weren't so happy with our current neighbourhood, and if husband didn't have that job he's enjoying, I think we'd try to move...

I have another fact you may find interesting: In Hamburg mothers aren't allowed to decide how many hours their children spend at the nursery/kindergarden. Some authority makes a calculation based on cumulated working hours of both parents and decides they get x hours of nursery/kiga time per day. Is that crass, or what? I'd hate it.

[indybaggins.livejournal.com]

Belgium! Glad we just made the top ten, although that might change, there's some talk about shortening allowed hospital stays for new moms...

[capitu]

I knew my country was going to be pretty down on the list, however, things are changing. I wouldn't be surprised if say, 5 years ago, the conditions were even worse. It's not enough, but it's something. ^^

[huldrejenta.livejournal.com]

I often think about what a privileged part of the world we live in. Thank goodness things are improving some places - slowly, but improving nonetheless - but seeing that statistics in black and white and the incrompehensible differences is so sad.