These are the safest countries for a baby to be born (USA Today, February 20)

A Pakistani nurse treats a newborn baby in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad on Feb. 20, 2018.(Photo: Aamir Qureshi, AFP/Getty Images)

These are the safest countries for a baby to be born (USA Today, February 20)

 

Japan, Iceland and Singapore are the three safest countries to be born with only 1 in 1,000 babies dying during their first 28 days in those nations, a report finds.

High-income countries have a newborn mortality rate of 3 in 1,000 on average, compared with 27 for low-income countries, according to UNICEF.

Worldwide, 1 million newborns die the day they are born each year. In addition, 2.6 million newborns do not survive their first month of life each year in some of the world's poorest and most conflict-ridden nations. About 80% of the newborn deaths could have been prevented if the babies had proper access to affordable healthcare, good nutrition and clean water, UNICEF said.

 

-         mortality: 사망

-         conflict-ridden: 분쟁이 만연한

-         affordable: 저렴한, 감당할 수 있는 가격의

 

영아 사망률 가장 낮은 나라는?

일본, 아이슬란드, 싱가포르가 영아 사망률이 가장 낮은 세 나라에 꼽혔다. 이 세 나라의 경우, 출산 후 28일 이내 사망할 확률이 영아 1천명 당 1명에 불과했다고 보고서에서 밝히고 있다.

. 유니세프(UNICEF)에 따르면, 소득이 높은 국가들은 평균 1천명 당 3명의 영아 사망률을 보였고, 이는 저소득 국가의 사망률이 1천명 당 27명이라는 점과 큰 차이를 보인다.

전세계적으로 매년 1백만 명의 신생아가 태어난 당일 사망한다. 게다가 전세계 최빈국인 동시에 전쟁으로 가장 큰 고통을 겪는 나라들 일부에서는 매년 260만 명의 신생아가 출생 후 한 달을 넘기지 못한다.

신생아 사망의 약 80%는 만약 이들이 저렴한 의료 서비스를 제대로 받을 수 있고, 영양상태가 좋고 깨끗한 물을 사용할 수만 있다면 예방할 수도 있었다고 유니세프에서 밝혔다.

 

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Japan, Iceland and Singapore are the three safest countries to be born with only 1 in 1,000 babies dying during their first 28 days in those nations, a report released Tuesday finds.

High-income countries have a newborn mortality rate of 3 in 1,000 on average, compared with 27 for low-income countries. The United States reports a newborn mortality rate of 4 in 1,000, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

Worldwide, 1 million newborns die the day they are born and another 2.6 million are stillborn each year. In addition, 2.6 million newborns do not survive their first month of life each year in some of the world’s poorest and most conflict-ridden nations, UNICEF found.

About 80% of the newborn deaths could have been prevented if the babies had proper access to affordable healthcare, good nutrition and clean water, UNICEF said. The “alarming” risks these babies face are at least 50 times as high as those in the richest countries.

Among the report’s other findings:

• Babies born to mothers with no education face almost double the risk of dying as a newborn as babies born to mothers with at least a secondary education.

• Countries with the greatest chance of newborn survival were Japan, Iceland, Finland, Singapore, Estonia, Slovenia, Cyprus, Belarus, Luxembourg, Norway and South Korea.

• Countries with the least chance of newborn survival were Pakistan, Central African Republic, Somalia, Lesotho, Guinea-Bissau, South Sudan, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali and Chad.

• Of the 10 countries with the highest newborn mortality rates, eight are in sub-Saharan Africa and two are in South Asia.