Australia among best places to be a mum

AUSTRALIA is the tenth best country in the world to be a mother, according to a new global survey by Save the Children.

Ahead of Mother's Day on Sunday, the charity listed the best and worst places to be a mother on the planet, based on an assessment of well-being using indicators including maternal health, under-five-years mortality, levels of women's education, income, and political status.

Nordic nations sweep the top spots while countries in sub-Saharan Africa take up each of the bottom ten places in the annual index.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the world's toughest place to be a mother - and Finland the best.

Australia ranks tenth, New Zealand 17th - down from fourth last year - the UK 23rd and the United States 30th, behind the likes of Belarus and Israel.

Justin Forsyth, chief executive of Save the Children, said two major global challenges faced mothers - newborn health and malnutrition.

"We can end child and maternal mortality in our generation by using tried and tested interventions to stop mothers and babies being lost from what should be simple preventable causes," Mr Forsyth said.

According to the statistics, women in the UK are at a higher risk of dying during pregnancy or childbirth than women in Slovakia, Montenegro and Lithuania.

And a newborn in Somalia, the most risky country to be born, is 40 times more likely to die on its first day than a child born in Luxembourg, the safest place to come into the world.

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