Each year 5.5 million babies enter and leave the world without being recorded and one in three newborns – over 45 million babies – do not have a birth certificate by their first birthday.
World Health Statistics 2014 contains WHO’s annual compilation of health-related data for its 194 Member States, and includes a summary of the progress made towards achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and associated targets.
The well-being of mothers in China has improved dramatically thanks to the government's efforts to enhance family healthcare, an international report showed.
Bangladesh has secured 130th position, higher than India and Pakistan, in a list ranking the countries that are the best places for a mother and her children to be living in.
In Pakistan, maternal mortality has reduced by almost half, child mortality decreased by a quarter, expected years of schooling increased by 3.3 years and gross national income per capita rose 270
Speakers at a seminar revealed that the mother mortality ratio (MMR) in Balochistan is as high as 785, whereas the neonatal mortality ratio stands at 63, and the mortality rate of children up to fi
Nepal has been consistently rising on Save the Children's Mothers' Index‚ with dramatic cuts in maternal and child mortality after the civil war ended in 2006 - David Wright‚ country director‚ Save
Mortality rate is declining but not enough to meet Millennium Development Goal.
India accounts for the maximum number of maternal deaths in the world — 17 per cent or nearly 50,000 of the 2.89 lakh women who died as a result of complications due to pregnancy or childbearing in 2013. Nigeria is second with nearly 40,000, stated the UN report on maternal deaths released on Tuesday.
