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Every year 130 million babies are born. Their life chances are a lottery depending on where they are born.
In Europe, six babies per 1000 will die before their first birthday. In Africa, it’s 82. In America, 1 in 3 will grow up to be obese; in Cambodia, a child is more likely to become malnourished than go to high school. In Sierra Leone, one in eight mothers die in childbirth. 

Through the stories of mothers and babies around the world, our Welcome to the World documentary (broadcast by the BBC as Four Born Every Second) looks at how poverty affects childbirth, childhood - and everything beyond.

Is it worse to be born poor or to die poor?