If you're planning on having a child, you might want to book a ticket to Japan.
如果你计划要孩子，可能要预订一张去日本的票了。
A UNICEF report released looks at newborn mortality rates from 1990 to 2016 and found that the country with the lowest newborn mortality rate was Japan, with only one death in every 1,111 births.
近日发布的一份联合国儿童基金会报告，对1990年至2016年的新生儿死亡率进行研究并发现，新生儿死亡率最低的国家是日本，该国每1111例新生儿中仅有1例死亡。
Sadly, many countries, including the US, fared far worse.
不幸的是，许多国家，包括美国在这方面远落后于日本。

Pakistan had the highest newborn mortality rate with about one in every 22 infants dying before turning one month old.
巴基斯坦的新生儿死亡率最高，大约每22例未满月的新生儿中就有一例死亡。
Many of the countries with high infant mortality rates – for example, Afghanistan, Somalia, and South Sudan - had many factors working against them, including limited access to clean water or lack of healthcare.
许多婴儿死亡率很高的国家如阿富汗，索马里和南苏丹，都存在很多不利因素，包括获得的洁净水有限或缺乏医疗保障。
That is not the case in the US, of course. Yet about one in 270 infants die before they turn one-month-old in the country.
美国当然不存在这些问题，但该国未满月婴儿的死亡率约达1：270。
Of the 10 highest-risk countries, eight are in sub-Saharan Africa, countries where "pregnant women are much less likely to receive assistance," due to poverty, conflict or weak institutions, according to the report.
该报告指出，在10个死亡率最高的国家中，有8个来自撒哈拉以南非洲，这些国家因为贫穷、冲突或体系薄弱，国内妇女不太可能接受到帮助。