Niger, a poor landlocked country in sub-Saharan Africa, has ranked a total of nine times at the bottom of Save the Children's annual Mothers' Index since the launch of the survey in 2000.
This year is a bit different, though there's still not much to celebrate.
Out of 178 countries, Niger placed 175th in this year's list published on Tuesday, not the last but still part of the bottom five. And it's not so hard to understand why: 1 in 23 mothers there continue to be at risk of dying from giving birth, they often don't reach secondary school, and they have one of the lowest gross national income per capita and least participation in national government rate in the world.
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Jenny Lei Ravelo@JennyLeiRavelo
Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.
