Maldives ranks 45th best place to be a mother among developing nations
10 May 2012, 6:40 PM
Hawwa Lubna
Maldives has been ranked as the 45th best place to be a mother among 80 developing nations compared in international NGO Save the Children’s 13th State of the World’s Mothers report.
The ranking includes 165 countries split into three categories – 43 more developed countries , 80 less developed countries and 42 least developed countries.
Norway is ranked first, ahead of Iceland and Sweden, while Niger is the worst place to be a mother in the world – replacing Afghanistan for the first time in two years.
The Maldives landed first out of 42 countries listed in the ‘least developed’ tier of the 2011 mother’s index rankings.
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