While you read this page, around 400 babies will take their first breaths. And every proud parent will wish the same thing for them – that they get a decent chance at being healthy and happy. But where these babies are born will dramatically affect how their lives will unfold.
The chances of today’s newborns surviving the birth or even childhood will vary widely. In fact, 90 percent of children due to be born today in Ethiopia will not be delivered by anyone with any medical training.
If they are born in one of ten countries including Australia, they can expect to live for more than eighty years. If they are born elsewhere, their life may be as short as only 34 years. Over ten million children every year – a staggering 30,000 children a day – will die of causes that are either preventable or can be easily cured.
The chances of the new arrivals being born into a family who can adequately provide for them will be slim for most, whilst others will have more wealth than they need. Two thirds will be born to parents who have less than A$3 a day to live on.But those born to parents with the income of an average Australian family, will be in the richest 6 percent of the world.
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