Singapore has made remarkable achievements in improving maternal and child health in the last four decades since its independence. The infant mortality rates have fallen from 82.2 per thousand births in 1950, to 6.6 per thousand in 1990 and 2.1 per thousand in 2007. The under 5 mortality rates are 9 and 3 per thousand children 0-5 years old in 1990 and 2006, respectively1 . In UNICEF’s report on “The State of the World’s Children 2007”,1 Singapore was ranked first, together with Japan, Sweden and Switzerland, for the lowest infant mortality rates and under-5 mortality rates in the world in 2006.
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