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Just in time for Mother's Day, an annual ranking of the best and worst countries in which to be a mom puts the USA in 25th place, up from 31st last year. 
  
 The 13th annual State of the World's Mothers report by the Save the Children foundation, out today, examines the well-being of mothers and their children in 165 countries, based on a range of measures, including mothers' education, infant mortality and breastfeeding rates. 
  
 Norway tops the overall list of best places to be a mother and ranks among the very best on contraceptive use, female education and political representation. It has one of the most generous maternity leave policies in the developed world. 
  
 The improvement in the USA's rank is due largely to increases in its already high educational status, which benefits the economic potential of women and mothers, says Carolyn Miles, president of the charity. 
  
 The USA still performs below average overall and quite poorly on a number of measures, Miles says, including: 
  
 •Lifetime risk of dying from childbirth. Mothers in the USA face a one-in-2,100 risk of maternal death, the highest of any industrialized nation. 
  
 •Mortality rate of children. The death rate for children younger than 5 is eight per 1,000 births, on par with Bosnia and Herzegovina. A child in the USA is four times as likely as a child in Iceland to die before age 5. Forty countries performed better than the U.S. 
  
 •Maternity leave policies. Policies in the USA are among the least generous of any wealthy nation. It is the only developed country, and one of only a handful of countries in the world, that does not guarantee working mothers paid leave. "The U.S. has moved up, but it's still not great, falling near the bottom among most wealthy nations," Miles says. 
  
 Niger, in Western Africa, is last on the index. It is in the grip of a worsening hunger situation, threatening the lives of a million children, Miles says. 
  
 The child mortality rate in Niger is one in six, vs. one in 333 in Norway, offering "the starkest contrast that you can see" between two countries, she says. 
  
 The report emphasizes nutrition as a key factor in determining mothers' and their children's well-being. Malnutrition is the underlying cause of more than 2.6 million child deaths each year, it says. An additional 171 million children suffer stunted growth. "Nearly 1 million lives could be saved by breastfeeding alone," Miles says. 
  
 The findings should serve "as a fire alarm to countries and people to look at this situation and draw them together to come up with an action plan," says Jennifer Requejo, a maternal and infant health researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She was not involved in the research. ||||| Niger is the worst country on earth in which to be a mother, according to a report by Save the Children. The charity's annual Mothers' Index uses statistics covering female and child health and nutrition, as well as prospects for women's education, economic prosperity and political participation in its assessment of 165 countries. 
  
 Niger's current food crisis bears much of the blame for its placing at the bottom of the list, just above Afghanistan, Yemen, Guinea-Bissau and Mali. The report also found high levels of maternal mortality, lack of access to contraception and poor levels of income relative to men's. 
  
 Afghanistan, which came last the previous two years, was credited for providing skilled assistance at more births and a reduction in female mortality rates, among other factors. 
  
 Hunger and deprivation are the chief factors keeping other developing nations, such as Eritrea, Chad, Sudan and South Sudan, near the bottom of the list. Of 73 developing nations on the table, which account for 95% of child deaths, the Save the Children report rates only four as "very good" for child nutrition. Of the bottom 10 nations, four have seen an increase in stunted growth in children caused by poor nutrition over the past 20 years. 
  
 The authors stress that income is not the only thing that matters: Vietnam's per capita income is 25% less than that of India, yet it has half the rates of stunting. 
  
 Norway is rated as the world's best place to be a mother, followed by Iceland, Sweden, New Zealand and Denmark. The UK is joint 10th with the Netherlands, three places up from 2011. The US is rated 25th, with the report pointing to maternal death rates 15 times higher than those in Greece and infant mortality four times greater than in Iceland. The US also scores the worst among developed nations for encouraging breastfeeding. 
  
 The report "shows clearly that this crisis of chronic malnutrition has devastating effects on both mothers and their children", said Brendan Cox, Save the Children's director of policy. He said: "We urgently need global leadership on malnutrition that results in key nutrition projects being rolled out for mothers and babies to ensure their health and survival." 
  
 Save the Children has highlighted the vast differences between women's experience in Niger and the UK, with those in the former expecting only four years of formal tuition and having a one in 16 chance of dying from a pregnancy-related cause, against almost one in 5,000 in the UK. 
  
 Childhood malnutrition is a vicious circle, the report notes, with women stunted from early deprivation going on to produce underweight babies who have not been adequately nourished in the womb, an effect magnified all the more if the mother remains poorly fed or overworked. The charity wants countries to break this pattern by focusing efforts on a child's first 1,000 days, starting from the beginning of pregnancy. 
  
 Save the Children argues that even supporting mothers to breastfeed could save a million children's lives a year. |||||
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– Good news for American moms: The United States is a slightly better place to be a mother than it was last year, according to Save the Children's 13th annual report on the topic. The US rose from 31st to 25th place in its look at 165 countries. For the best places to be called Mom, look to Nordic countries: Norway took top honors, followed by Iceland, Sweden, New Zealand, and Denmark, reports the Guardian. Niger brings up the rear, below Afghanistan, Yemen, Guinea-Bissau, and Mali. Among the deciding factors: infant and mother mortality, breastfeeding rates, nutrition, female education, and maternity-leave policies. USA Today reports that America's rise is credited largely to increases in mothers' educational rates, but it's not all good news. Some of the gloomier points: The US is No. 1 among industrialized nations when it comes to maternal deaths, with a rate of one in 2,100; the death rate for children under five is eight in 1,000, ranking us alongside Bosnia and Herzegovina; and our maternity-leave policies lag far behind those of other developed countries.
Nyhetsartikel: Lagom till Mors dag, en årlig ranking av de bästa och sämsta länderna att vara mamma i placerar USA på 25:e plats, upp från 31:a förra året. I den trettonde årliga State of the World's Mothers-rapporten från stiftelsen Rädda Barnen granskas idag mödrars och deras barns välbefinnande i 165 länder, baserat på en rad åtgärder, däribland mödrars utbildning, spädbarnsdödlighet och amningsfrekvens. Norge toppar den övergripande listan över bästa platserna att vara mamma och rankas bland de allra bästa på preventivmedelsanvändning, kvinnlig utbildning och politisk representation. Den har en av de mest generösa politikerna för mammaledighet i den utvecklade världen. Förbättringen av USA:s rang beror till stor del på att den redan höga utbildningsstatusen ökar, vilket gynnar den ekonomiska potentialen hos kvinnor och mödrar, säger Carolyn Miles, ordförande för välgörenhetsorganisationen. USA presterar fortfarande under genomsnittet totalt sett och ganska dåligt på ett antal åtgärder, säger Miles, bland annat: •Livstidsrisk för att dö av förlossning. Mödrar i USA står inför en en-i-2100 risk för mödradöd, den högsta av alla industrialiserade nationer. •Barnens mortalitet. Dödsfrekvensen för barn under 5 år är åtta per 1 000 födslar, i nivå med Bosnien och Hercegovina. Ett barn i USA är fyra gånger så troligt som ett barn på Island att dö före 5 års ålder. Fyrtio länder presterade bättre än USA. •Födelseledighetspolitik. Politiken i USA är bland de minst generösa av alla rika länder. Det är det enda utvecklade landet, och ett av bara en handfull länder i världen, som inte garanterar att förvärvsarbetande mödrar betalar ledighet. "USA har flyttat upp, men det är fortfarande inte bra, faller nära botten bland de mest välbärgade nationer," Miles säger. Niger, i Västafrika, ligger sist på indexet. Den befinner sig i ett grepp om en förvärrad hungersituation och hotar en miljon barns liv, säger Miles. Barndödligheten i Niger är en på sex, jämfört med en på 333 i Norge, och erbjuder "den största kontrasten som man kan se" mellan två länder, säger hon. I betänkandet betonas näringen som en nyckelfaktor för att avgöra mödrars och deras barns välbefinnande. Undernäring är den bakomliggande orsaken till mer än 2,6 miljoner dödsfall varje år, sägs det. Ytterligare 171 miljoner barn drabbas av hämmad tillväxt. "Nästan 1 miljon liv kan räddas genom att amma ensam", säger Miles. Resultaten ska tjäna "som brandlarm för länder och människor att se på denna situation och dra dem tillsammans för att komma fram till en handlingsplan", säger Jennifer Requejo, en mödra- och spädbarnshälsoforskare vid Johns Hopkins University i Baltimore. Hon var inte inblandad i forskningen. Niger är det värsta landet på jorden att vara mor i, enligt en rapport från Rädda Barnen. I välgörenhetens årliga Moderindex används statistik som omfattar kvinnors och barns hälsa och näringslära, samt utsikter till kvinnors utbildning, ekonomiskt välstånd och politiskt deltagande i sin bedömning av 165 länder. Nigers nuvarande livsmedelskris bär en stor del av skulden för att landet placerat sig längst ner på listan, strax ovanför Afghanistan, Jemen, Guinea-Bissau och Mali. I rapporten fann man också höga nivåer av mödradödlighet, bristande tillgång till preventivmedel och dåliga inkomstnivåer i förhållande till mäns. Afghanistan, som kom sist under de två föregående åren, fick beröm för att ha gett kompetent hjälp vid fler födslar och en minskning av bland annat dödligheten bland kvinnor. Hunger och fattigdom är de viktigaste faktorerna som håller andra utvecklingsländer, såsom Eritrea, Tchad, Sudan och Sydsudan, nära botten på listan. Av de 73 utvecklingsländer som står för 95 procent av dödsfallen bland barn uppger Rädda Barnen att endast fyra är "mycket bra" för barnmat. Fyra av de tio länder som ligger längst ner har sett en ökning av den hämmade tillväxten hos barn som orsakats av dålig näring under de senaste 20 åren. Författarna betonar att inkomst inte är det enda som betyder något: Vietnams inkomst per capita är 25 procent mindre än Indiens, men ändå har landet hälften av hastigheten av strumping. Norge rankas som världens bästa plats att vara mamma, följt av Island, Sverige, Nya Zeeland och Danmark. Storbritannien är gemensamt 10:e med Nederländerna, tre platser upp från 2011. USA är klassat som 25:e, med rapporten som pekar på mödradödlighet 15 gånger högre än i Grekland och spädbarnsdödlighet fyra gånger högre än på Island. USA har också det sämsta resultatet bland industriländerna för att de uppmuntrar amning. Rapporten "visar tydligt att denna kris av kronisk undernäring har förödande effekter på både mödrar och deras barn", säger Brendan Cox, Rädda Barnens policychef. Han sade: "Vi behöver omedelbart globalt ledarskap på undernäring som resulterar i att viktiga näringsprojekt lanseras för mödrar och spädbarn för att säkerställa deras hälsa och överlevnad." Rädda Barnen har belyst de stora skillnaderna mellan kvinnors erfarenheter i Niger och Storbritannien, där de i de förra förväntar sig bara fyra års formell undervisning och har en en av 16 chans att dö av en graviditetsrelaterad orsak, mot nästan en av 5 000 i Storbritannien. Undernäring bland barn är en ond cirkel, konstaterar rapporten, där kvinnor hindras från att tidigt bli fattiga och fortsätter att producera underviktiga barn som inte har fått tillräckligt med näring i livmodern, en effekt som förstoras desto mer om modern förblir dåligt matad eller överansträngd. Välgörenhetsorganisationen vill att länder ska bryta detta mönster genom att fokusera insatserna på ett barns första 1 000 dagar, med början från början av graviditeten. Rädda Barnen argumenterar för att även stöd till mödrar att amma skulle kunna rädda en miljon barns liv om året. Vad är en kortare version av ovanstående artikel?
News article: Just in time for Mother's Day, an annual ranking of the best and worst countries to be a mother in places the United States 25th, up from 31st last year. The thirteenth annual State of the World's Mothers report from the Save the Children Foundation today reviews the well-being of mothers and their children in 165 countries, based on a series of measures, including mothers' education, infant mortality and breastfeeding rates. Norway tops the overall list of best places to be a mother and ranks among the very best on contraception use, female education and political representation. It has one of the most generous policy makers for maternity leave in the developed world. The improvement in the US rank is largely due to the fact that the already high educational status is increasing, benefiting the economic potential of women and mothers," says Carolyn Miles, president of the charity. The United States still performs below average overall and quite poorly on a number of measures, says Miles, including: •Lifetime risk of dying from childbirth. Mothers in the United States face a one-in-2100 risk of maternal death, the highest of all industrialized nations. •Child mortality. The death rate for children under 5 years of age is eight per 1,000 births, at the level of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A child in the United States is four times as likely as a child in Iceland to die before the age of 5. Forty countries performed better than the United States. •Birth leave policy. Politics in the United States is among the least generous of all rich countries. It is the only developed country, and one of only a handful of countries in the world, which does not guarantee that working mothers pay leave. "The United States has moved up, but it's still not good, falling near the bottom among the most affluent nations," Miles says. Niger, in West Africa, is last on the index. It is in a grip on a worsening hunger situation and threatens the lives of a million children, says Miles. The child mortality rate in Niger is one in six, compared to one in 333 in Norway, and offers "the greatest contrast that can be seen" between two countries, she says. The report emphasises nutrition as a key factor in determining the well-being of mothers and their children. Malnutrition is the underlying cause of more than 2.6 million deaths each year, it says. Another 171 million children suffer from stunted growth. "Almost 1 million lives can be saved by nursing alone," Miles says. The results should serve "as fire alarms for countries and people to look at this situation and draw them together to arrive at an action plan," says Jennifer Requejo, a maternal and infant health researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She wasn't involved in the research. Niger is the worst country on earth to be a mother in, according to a report from Save the Children. The annual Mother Index of charity uses statistics covering the health and nutrition of women and children, as well as prospects for women's education, economic prosperity and political participation in their assessment of 165 countries. Niger's current food crisis bears much of the blame for placing itself at the bottom of the list, just above Afghanistan, Yemen, Guinea-Bissau and Mali. The report also found high levels of maternal mortality, lack of access to contraception and poor income levels relative to men's. Afghanistan, which came last in the previous two years, received praise for providing competent help in more births and a reduction in, among other things, mortality among women. Hunger and poverty are the most important factors that keep other developing countries, such as Eritrea, Chad, Sudan and South Sudan, close to the bottom of the list. Of the 73 developing countries that account for 95 percent of children's deaths, Save the Children states that only four are "very good" for baby food. Four of the ten countries at the bottom have seen an increase in the stunted growth of children caused by poor nutrition over the past 20 years. The authors stress that income is not the only thing that matters: Vietnam's per capita income is 25% less than that of India, yet the country has half the rate of socking. Norway ranks as the world's best place to be a mother, followed by Iceland, Sweden, New Zealand and Denmark. The UK is in common 10th with the Netherlands, three seats up from 2011. The United States is classified as 25th, with the report pointing to maternal mortality 15 times higher than in Greece and infant mortality four times higher than in Iceland. The U.S. also has the worst result among developed countries because they encourage breastfeeding. The report "shows clearly that this crisis of chronic malnutrition has devastating effects on both mothers and their children," says Brendan Cox, Save the Children's Policy Manager. He said, "We urgently need global leadership on malnutrition that results in important nutrition projects being launched for mothers and infants to ensure their health and survival." Save the Children has highlighted the large differences between women's experiences in Niger and the UK, where in the former they expect only four years of formal instruction and have one in 16 chances of dying for a pregnancy-related cause, against nearly one in 5,000 in the UK. Malnutrition among children is a vicious circle, notes the report, in which women are prevented from early becoming poor and continue to produce underweight children who have not had enough nutrition in the uterus, an effect that is magnified all the more if the mother remains poorly fed or overworked. The charity wants countries to break this pattern by focusing efforts on a child's first 1,000 days, starting from the beginning of pregnancy. Save the Children argues that even support for mothers to nurse could save one million children's lives a year. What is a shorter version of the above article?
– Goda nyheter för amerikanska mammor: USA är en något bättre plats att vara mamma på än förra året, enligt Save the Children's 13:e årliga rapport om ämnet. USA steg från 31:a till 25:e plats i sin blick på 165 länder. För de bästa platserna att kallas mamma, se till Norden: Norge tog högsta hedersbetygelser, följt av Island, Sverige, Nya Zeeland och Danmark, uppger Väktaren. Niger för upp det bakre, nedanför Afghanistan, Jemen, Guinea-Bissau och Mali. Bland de avgörande faktorerna: spädbarns- och mammadödlighet, amningsfrekvens, kost, utbildning för kvinnor och politiken för mammaledighet. USA Today rapporterar att USA:s uppgång till stor del beror på att mödrarnas utbildningsnivå ökar, men det är inte alla goda nyheter. Några av de dystrare punkterna: USA är nr. 1 bland industrialiserade nationer när det gäller mödradöden, med en andel på 2 100; dödstalet för barn under fem år är åtta på 1 000, och rankar oss vid sidan av Bosnien och Hercegovina; och vår politik för mammaledighet ligger långt efter politiken för andra utvecklade länder.
“Good news for American mothers: America is a slightly better place to be a mother than last year, according to Save the Children’s 13th annual report on the subject. The United States rose from 31st to 25th place in its gaze on 165 countries. For the best places to be called mother, look to the Nordics: Norway took highest honors, followed by Iceland, Sweden, New Zealand and Denmark, states the Guardian. Niger brings up the rear, below Afghanistan, Yemen, Guinea-Bissau and Mali. Among the decisive factors: infant and maternal mortality, breastfeeding rate, diet, education for women and maternity leave policy. USA Today reports that the rise of the United States is largely due to the rise in mothers' educational attainment, but that is not all good news. Some of the gloomier points: the United States is no. 1 among industrialized nations in terms of maternal death, with a share of 2,100; the death rate for children under the age of five is eight at 1,000, and ranks us alongside Bosnia and Herzegovina; and our policy on maternity leave is far behind that of other developed countries.