State of the World's Mothers 2015

Publication language
English
Pages
80pp
Date published
31 Dec 2015
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Children & youth, Gender, Urban
Organisations
Save the Children

The 16th annual State of the World’s Mothers report explores the urban disadvantage in rich and poor cities around the world. This report presents the latest and most extensive analysis to date of health disparities between rich and poor in cities. It finds that in most developing countries, the poorest urban children are at least twice as likely to die as the richest urban children. In some countries, they are 3 to 5 – or even more – times as likely to die. The annual Mothers’ Index uses the latest data on women’s health, children’s health, educational attainment, economic well-being and female political participation to rank 179 countries and show where mothers and children fare best and where they face the greatest hardships.