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India Ranks 113th On Childhood Index

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 According to a Save the Children’s "End of Childhood Index 2018”, India ranks 113 among 175 countrieswith regards to where childhood is threatened as a result of poor health, malnutrition, exclusion from education, child labour, and child marriage. The child marriages in India have come down to 15.2% from 21.1% in 2017.
India jumped three positions up from 116 last year with improvement in India’s overall score by 14 points from 754 to 768 on a scale of 1000. Singapore and Slovenia are placed at the top sharing the first place in the index and Niger figures at the end of the list at 175.
Source- The Moneycontrol


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