Worst places
- Niger
- Afghanistan
- Yemen
- Guinea-Bissau
- Mali
- Norway
- Iceland
- Sweden
- New Zealand
- Denmark
The ranking comes in the charity's annual index which compares conditions for mothers in 165 countries.
It considers a number of factors including health, education, economic status and nutrition.
Niger is severely affected by a regional food crisis. It replaces Afghanistan at the bottom of the Save the Children index.
After two years at the bottom of the list, Afghanistan has moved up a notch. This is credited to greater investment in front-line health workers.
Save the Children identifies Norway as the best place to be a mother, while the UK comes 10th.
Meanwhile the UN has appealed for urgent funding to help provide food assistance to almost 4 million Nigeriens and 160,000 Malian refugees in Niger as the Sahel region enters the "lean season".
According to the World Food Programme and UN refugee agency, the impact of the successive droughts in Niger, very high food prices and crop failures has been compounded by an influx of refugees fleeing political unrest in neighbouring Mali.
To my personal opinion,
Tanzania has done significantly better than might have been expected for one key
reason.
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