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Photos: The best and worst countries to be a child
A 2017 report by Save the Children ranked 172 countries from best to worst in an effort to explore the main reasons why childhood comes to an early end in certain places. Here are countries that ranked highest and lowest.
Norway: A woman kisses her 4-month-old son in Oslo. Fewer than 0.3% of children die before the age of 5 in Norway.
Norway: A woman kisses her 4-month-old son in Oslo. Fewer than 0.3% of children die before the age of 5 in Norway.
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Finland: A 2-year-old at her public day care in Helsinki. Only 2% of primary- and secondary-school-age children are out of school in Finland.
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The Netherlands: A woman and her 2-hour-old baby in The Hague. The Netherlands has a child homicide rate of 0.3 deaths per 100,000 people 19 years old or younger.
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Sweden: A child learns to ride a bike in Sweden, where nobody is forcibly displaced by conflict.
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