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This nation is singled out for its low risk of maternal mortality and high female life expectancy. Plus, the worst place
Afghanistan worst place, Norway best to be a mom: study...
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Wednesday, May 4th 2011 at 11:55AM
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Afghanistan is the worst place in the world to be a mother and Norway is the best, an annual report released Tuesday said. "Afghanistan has the highest lifetime risk of maternal mortality and the lowest female life expectancy in the world," putting it at the bottom of the the Mothers' Index, which has been compiled for the past 12 years by the nonprofit group Save the Children.

In Afghanistan and the nine other countries at the bottom of the index, an average of one in six kids dies before age five and one in three suffers from malnutrition, the report says. Nearly half the population in the worst countries to raise kids lacks access to clean water, and only four girls for every five boys are enrolled in primary school. ...
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Wednesday, May 4th 2011 at 11:56AM
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