These African countries have been ranked the best in the world for children

Rwanda

Twenty-five years on from the Rwandan genocide, the country has improved on most of the ‘childhood enders’. The number of children dying before the age of 5 has decreased by 79 per cent. Many more children are in school and many fewer children are married before the age of 18. Rwanda has also cut child labour, adolescent births and child homicides in half since 2000.

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