best countries in which to be a mother

So i read this article about best countries in which to be a mother in Yahoo news and some shocking truth,

"A woman in the Unites States is more than five times as likely as a woman in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece or Italy to die from pregnancy-related causes in her lifetime and her risk of maternal death is nearly 10-fold that of a woman in Ireland,"the resport said.

REALLY? Bosnia? Who would have thought that?

That make me wonder how is Malaysian women will rank in this statistic and I manage to find the whole list. The list has divided 125 countries into 3 tiers, the more developed, less developed and least developed countries. Of course as much as our katak di bawah tempurung government continue to think that we are a developed country.....well we are not. So i found Malaysia in tier 2 and rank number 38 among 77 countries!!! Not toooooo bad. :-( but when you see who is ranked higher than you will really go mad; Cuba (1), Israel (2), South Africa(16) really!!!!! Ok, ok may be we shouldn't compare with the countries so far away, look at our own neighbor first, Thailand (11), Vietnam (31)!!!!!!! =:=

The women index rank even lower at no 45. The "Mothers' Index" is highlighted in Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers 2010 report, which examines the many ways women working on the front lines of health care are helping to save the lives of mothers, newborns and young children, and makes an urgent call to increase the number of front-line health workers in the world's poorest nations. Wow... how we have been treated!!! Aiz....

But very strangely, I couldn't find our favourite neighbor in the list?!!