A special commission of 40 experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the influential medical magazine The Lancet ranked the countries where children are best raised.

The rating is based on a large number of parameters, such as investments in health and education, the use of child labor, the availability of healthy nutrition, carbon dioxide emissions, the level of inequality, and. grouped into two groups - survival and prosperity.

The five countries in which it is best to raise children included Norway, South Korea, the Netherlands, France and Ireland, each with 0.95 points. This is followed by Denmark, Japan and Belgium with 0.94 points, and Iceland and the United Kingdom (0.92 points) close the top ten.

In the second twenty - Luxembourg, Singapore, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Spain, Malta, Austria, Australia.

Israel ranked 24th with 0.9 points (0.98 for survival and 0.83 for prosperity). It is noted that Israel is on the 148th place in terms of carbon dioxide emissions per capita.

Italy - 26th, Estonia - 27th, Poland - 33rd, Belarus - 35th, Saudi Arabia - 36th.

The United States took only 39th position with 0.84 points (0.88 for survival and 0.8 for prosperity).

China - 43rd, Cuba - 46th, UAE - 49th, Turkey - 60th, Jordan - 62nd, Iran - 63rd, Lebanon - 73rd. 78th place - Palestinian Authority, Russia - 79th with 0.71 points (0.78 for survival and 0.65 for prosperity). Ukraine is the 91st with 0.66 points (0.68 for survival and 0.65 for prosperity). Mali, Niger, Somalia and the Central African Republic ranked 0.06 points (0.01 for survival and 0,.