Girls in southern Sudan are more likely to die in childbirth than complete primary school
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Girls in southern Sudan are more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than complete primary education, says a Unicef report published last week, to mark the International Day of the African Child.
Only 1 in 100 girls in southern Sudan complete primary school
Credit: PETER MOSZYNSKI
"After 21 years of war, southern Sudan ranks as the worst place in the world for many key indicators of women and children's well-being, including its rates of chronic malnutrition, primary school completion, immunisation and antenatal care," says Unicef, announcing the study.
Describing the state of women and children as "shocking," Unicef calculates that: "A girl born in southern Sudan has a better chance of dying in pregnancy or childbirth than of completing primary school. To put it another way, one in nine women dies in pregnancy or childbirth but only one in a hundred girls completes primary school."
Some 95000 children aged under 5 years are estimated to have died last year in southern Sudan (population 7.5 million), mostly from preventable disease. The total death toll of under 5s in the world's 31 industrialised countries (with a combined population of 938 million) was 76000, the report says.
Only one in 50 children completes primary education, which is thought to be "the lowest rate in the world," and only one in four adults (one in 10 women) is literate.
The study, conducted by the New Sudan Centre for Statistics and Evaluation (the statistical arm of the de facto government of South Sudan) in conjunction with Unicef, reviews surveys conducted in southern Sudan during recent years and compares them with models and figures from neighbouring countries and statistics from the rest of Sudan. There have been virtually no reliable data from southern Sudan since before the war, and the last reliable census was before independence in 1956.
A new census is due to be conducted during the interim period following the signing of a comprehensive peace agreement, and this would provide a baseline for planning and monitoring social progress, says Unicef.(Peter Moszynski)
Only 1 in 100 girls in southern Sudan complete primary school
Credit: PETER MOSZYNSKI
"After 21 years of war, southern Sudan ranks as the worst place in the world for many key indicators of women and children's well-being, including its rates of chronic malnutrition, primary school completion, immunisation and antenatal care," says Unicef, announcing the study.
Describing the state of women and children as "shocking," Unicef calculates that: "A girl born in southern Sudan has a better chance of dying in pregnancy or childbirth than of completing primary school. To put it another way, one in nine women dies in pregnancy or childbirth but only one in a hundred girls completes primary school."
Some 95000 children aged under 5 years are estimated to have died last year in southern Sudan (population 7.5 million), mostly from preventable disease. The total death toll of under 5s in the world's 31 industrialised countries (with a combined population of 938 million) was 76000, the report says.
Only one in 50 children completes primary education, which is thought to be "the lowest rate in the world," and only one in four adults (one in 10 women) is literate.
The study, conducted by the New Sudan Centre for Statistics and Evaluation (the statistical arm of the de facto government of South Sudan) in conjunction with Unicef, reviews surveys conducted in southern Sudan during recent years and compares them with models and figures from neighbouring countries and statistics from the rest of Sudan. There have been virtually no reliable data from southern Sudan since before the war, and the last reliable census was before independence in 1956.
A new census is due to be conducted during the interim period following the signing of a comprehensive peace agreement, and this would provide a baseline for planning and monitoring social progress, says Unicef.(Peter Moszynski)