Strictly For My Women In A World Apart

Life expectancy

Africa: 46

UK: 80

Chance of a girl going to primary school

Africa: 60 %

UK: 100 %

Minutes worked per day

Africa: 590*

UK: 413

Female literacy

Africa: 53.2%

UK: 99.9%

Births attended by a midwife

Africa: 43 %

UK: 99 %

Deaths in childbirth a year (per 100,000)

Africa: 920

UK: 13

Women using contraception

Africa: 15 % **

UK: 84 %

Average number of children

Africa: 5.5

UK: 1.7

Deaths during abortion every year

Africa: 29,800

UK: 8

Female MPs

Africa: 6.5% (Chad) 49% (Rwanda)

UK: 18.5 %

Professional and technical staff who are women

Africa: 46%

UK: 32%

Women with HIV

Africa: 13,200,000

UK: 21,000

All figures are average African woman versus average British woman except: * Kenya, ** Ivory Coast. Sources: United Nations Development Programme; World Bank; DfID; Commission for Africa; Save the Children; Oxfam
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article1655627.ece