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Canada ranks 17th out of 29 in UNICEF’s new ranking of overall child well-being among industrialized countries.

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The Child Well-Being in Rich Countries: A Comparative Overview, the second report of this kind done by UNICEF, covers children up to age 19. The first one was released in 2007 and looked at a variety of indicators in areas ranging from health to education using data from 2000 to 2003. The 2013 report looks at figures from 2009 to 2010.

The country with the top ranking was the Netherlands. The United Kingdom ranked 16th, and the United States ranked 26th. The last-place country was Romania.

In the previous study, Canada ranked 14th out of 20 countries examined at the time.

Canada ranked very low in the category of health and safety, ahead of only Latvia and Romania. According to UNICEF, the category looked at such things as infant mortality, low birth weight, national immunization and overall child and youth mortality.