According to the report, the single biggest factor determining your health, success, and overall well-being is where you were born.

The Sahel region of Africa, located directly south of the Sahara desert, stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. The Conversation

A region like the Sahel — a band of sub-Saharan countries including Mali, Niger, and Chad — is more likely to face an issue such as child mortality. A child in Chad, for example, is 55 times more likely to die than a child in Finland. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to make that statistic a thing of the past.

"The world is rich enough that the basic medicines — nothing fancy, nothing super expensive — should get to all those children," Gates told Schatzker. "Likewise, in a lot of countries, girls are still not getting nearly the education or the opportunities that men are."