Sierra Leone: Child and maternal mortality worst in the world – UNICEF

Woman in the Grafton community, eastern Freetown, which was a camp for displaced people during the 1991-2002 civil war. Sierra Leone has the highest rate of maternal and child mortality in the world. (Image: Nicholas Reader/IRIN)

“Child mortality in this country is the worst in the world at 270 deaths per 100,000 children born,” Veneman said on 29 February, the last day of her three-day visit to the West African nation.

“If you're a child born in Sierra Leone you have a more than one in four chance of not living to see your fifth birthday,” she noted.

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