Pakistan ranked 8th among the top ten countries with highest number of children out of the school
Pakistan ranked 8th among the top ten countries with highest number of children out of the school: Pakistan is ranked 148th best country in the world out of 172 for children to grow up in, reveals a report ‘Stolen Childhood 2017’.
A report published by Save the Children ranked countries according to the kind of facilities available to their kids such as education, health and social protection. In Pakistan, the report was launched by Child Rights Movement (CRM).
Pakistan’s regional neighbours India, Iran and China stood ahead with 116th, 80th, and 41st positions respectively. Afghanistan was ranked 152nd on the list.
As stated in the report, a few of the best countries for children in the world include Norway, Slovenia, Finland, Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal, Ireland, Iceland, Italy and Belgium.
Nigeria, Angola and Mali were ranked the worst countries for children to experience childhood.
The report highlights that Pakistan performed worst on growth stunting where 45% of children under 5 suffer from deceases. Pakistan was ranked second highest in the world where 10.7 million children are affected due to stunted growth, behind India (48.2 million).
Pakistan is also ranked 8th among top ten countries with highest number of children out of the school.
The report says that at least 700 million children in the world, and perhaps millions more are robbed of their childhood early in their lives. The major reasons included poor health, conflict, violence, child marriages, early pregnancy, malnutrition, illiteracy and child labour.
Pakistan’s ranking is not a surprise when you look at the alarming rate of stunting and malnutrition in the country where more than eight per cent of children fail to survive to their fifth birthday.
For More News:
Visit HumSub TV