Canada was ranked No. 19, even though the United Nations Development Program ranks our country ninth in the Human Development Index. A report called “Every Last Girl,” released for International Day of the Girl cites a low number of women in parliament and a relatively high adolescent fertility rate as reasons for the discrepancy. The report is aiming to list the “root causes of girls’ exclusion and disempowerment” in order to allow them to reach their full potential. Sweden has the best record, followed by its neighbours Finland and Norway. “The worst places to be a girl are amongst the poorest in the world,” the report states, but the opposite doesn’t seem to be true. With one of the biggest economies, one could expect the United States to be high on the list, but it was ranked only 32nd, beat out by countries like Kazakhstan and Algeria. The report cites a high maternal mortality rate when compared to other developed countries; it says 14 of every 100,000 w...
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