Eek:
It says here that Romania has the highest child mortality rate in the developed world: 19 deaths per every 1000 newborn children.
That's nearly 1 in 50.
(I don't necessarily agree with the blog to which I immediately linked: The biggest problem with Romania is probably something other than that the health care is government-run, and I'm sure someone else could find many countries without government-run health care where the medical treatment is abysmal.)
Posted by Matt Bruce at December 18, 2007 07:00 PMThis is one of those areas where life is so much better than in the past that it is hard to comprehend. If I am reading page 74 of this report correctly, in 1920, the infant mortality rate in the U.S. was 85.8 (1 in 12!). That rate was presumably one of the lowest on earth at the time, but today would rank right between Ethiopia and Djibouti (two places that are, frankly, horrible by current development standards) if wiki's publication of a UN chart is to be belived. As late as 1948, it was still 32.0 in the U.S., a rate currently seen in Paraguay.
FWIW, wiki lists Romania's current rate at 14.9.
Posted by: Kubi at December 18, 2007 09:21 PMIt says here that Romania has the highest child mortality rate in the developed world
This is seriously begging the question, isn't it?
I know they're in the EU, but that's not saying much.
Posted by: M.S. at December 20, 2007 10:20 AMP.S. I recognize the claim comes from the link.
Posted by: M.S. at December 20, 2007 10:21 AM