E-Mail IMAGE: Cumulative prevalence of mothers (45-49-years-old) bereaved by child death, expressed per 1,000 mothers view more Credit: USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences The inequality is enormous: Mothers in select African countries are more than 100 times more likely to have had a child die than mothers in high-income countries. This is what Diego Alburez-Gutierrez (Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany), Emily Smith-Greenaway (Researcher at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles and Guest Researcher at MPIDR), and co-authors found in their recent paper published in