100 Best Places To Be A Mother

Whether you are newlywed or just looking to become a mother, the 25 best places and countries to be a mother will shock you. The United States is not in the top 30 countries, Nigeria is ranked 166th below Libya, South Africa and other African countries.

The world's best place to be a mother is Norway as the United States drops to 33rd place in an annual survey.'An American woman is more than ten times as likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth as a Polish woman,' Save the Children said in a statement.

The ten worst places to be a mother were sub-Saharan countries including Sierra Leone and Gambia, according to Yahoo News, with nine of them being wracked by conflict.

For mothers in the bottom countries, conditions for them and their children are grim as on average, one woman in 30 dies from pregnancy-related causes, according to the report.

The contrast between Norway and Somalia is striking considering for instance that one Somali woman in 18 is at a higher risk of eventually dying of a maternal cause where in Norway it is a rare event with a one in 15,000 chance.

In Norway, children have access to good health and education but in Somalia almost 15 per cent of children do not live to see their fifth birthday, according to the report.

1 Norway

2 Finland

3 Iceland

4 Denmark

5 Sweden

6 Netherlands

7 Spain

8 Germany

9 Australia

10 Belgium

11 Austria

12 Italy

13 Switzerland

14 Singapore

15 Slovenia

16 Portugal

17 New Zealand

18 Israel

19 Greece

20 Canada

21 Luxembourg

22 Ireland

23 France

24 United Kingdom

*25 Belarus

*25 Czech Republic

27 Estonia

*28 Lithuania

*28 Poland

*30 Croatia

*30 Republic of Korea

32 Japan

33 United States of America

34 Slovakia

35 Serbia

36 Argentina

37 TfYR Macedonia

38 Saudi Arabia

39 Cyprus

*40 Cuba

*40 Latvia

42 Montenegro

43 Grenada

44 Bulgaria

45 Costa Rica

46 Malta

47 United Arab Emirates


48 Chile

49 Bahrain

50 Libya

51 Hungary

52 Barbados

53 Mexico

54 Bosnia and Herzegovina

55 Qatar

*56 Russian Federation

*56 Uruguay

58 Kazakhstan

59 Tunisia

60 Kuwait

*61 China

*61 Ecuador

63 Oman

64 Bahamas

65 Turkey

66 Romania

67 Trinidad and Tobago

68 Saint Lucia

69 Ukraine

70 Mauritius

71 Malaysia

72 South Africa

73 Lebanon

74 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of

75 Colombia

76 Algeria

77 Brazil

78 Panama

79 Peru

80 El Salvador

81 Moldova, Republic of

82 Albania

83 Thailand

84 Iran, Islamic Republic of

85 Cape Verde

*86 Georgia

*86 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

*88 Belize

*88 Bolivia, Plurinational State of

90 Azerbaijan


91 Namibia

*92 Jamaica

*92 Maldives

*92 Sri Lanka

95 Dominican Republic

96 Fiji

97 Mongolia

98 Vietnam

99 Turkmenistan

*100 Iraq

*100 Jordan

102 Nicaragua

103 Armenia

104 Tonga

105 Philippines

106 Timor-Leste

107 Kyrgyzstan

108 Suriname

109 Honduras

110 Paraguay

111 Syrian Arab Republic

112 Indonesia

113 Guyana

114 Nepal

115 Gabon

116 Egypt

117 Samoa

118 Uzbekistan

119 Botswana

120 Angola

121 Rwanda

122 Bhutan

123 Equatorial Guinea

124 Senegal

*125 Morocco

*125 Vanuatu

127 Tajikistan

128 Lao People's Democratic Republic

129 Guatemala

*130 Bangladesh

*130 Sao Tome and Principe

132 Cambodia

*133 Lesotho

*133 Zimbabwe

135 Micronesia, Federated States of

136 Tanzania, United Republic of


137 Kiribati

138 Kenya

139 Zambia

140 India

141 Uganda

142 Swaziland

143 Solomon Islands

144 Mozambique

145 Cameroon

146 Sudan

147 Burundi

148 Congo

149 Pakistan

150 Mauritania

151 Ethiopia

*152 Afghanistan

*152 Togo

154 Ghana

155 Madagascar

156 Eritrea

157 Papua New Guinea

158 Myanmar

*159 Malawi

*159 South Sudan

161 Djibouti

162 Yemen

163 Benin

164 Guinea

165 Comoros

*166 Burkina Faso

*166 Liberia

*166 Nigeria

*169 Haiti

*169 Sierra Leone

171 Guinea-Bissau

172 Chad

173 Côte d'Ivoire

174 Gambia

175 Niger

176 Mali

177 Central African Republic

178 Congo, Democratic Republic of the

179 Somalia