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Birth rate, crude > per 1,000 people	11.4 per 1,000 people		[146th of 195]
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Breast cancer incidence	28.7 per 100,000 females		[3rd of 26]
DEFINITION: Breast cancer incidence per 100,000 females.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Daily smokers	27%		[12th of 30]
DEFINITION: Data on tobacco consumption - this is a percentage of the total population who smoke at least one cigarette a day.(Data for Portugal and Austria is from 2002. All other data is from 2003).
SOURCE: World Health Organization
Drug access	95%		[7th of 163]
DEFINITION: Population with access to essential drugs 2000. The data on access to essential drugs are based on statistical estimates received from World Health Organization (WHO) country and regional offices and regional advisers and through the World Drug Situation Survey carried out in 1998-99. These estimates represent the best information available to the WHO Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy to date and are currently being validated by WHO member states. The department assigns the estimates to four groupings: very low access (0-49%), low access (50-79%), medium access (80-94%) and good access (95-100%). These groupings, used here in presenting the data, are often employed by the WHO in interpreting the data, as the actual estimates may suggest a higher level of accuracy than the data afford. b.
SOURCE: OECD Health Data 2005
Health care funding > Total per capita	$2,268.00 per capita		[8th of 25]
DEFINITION: Public and private funding of health care expenditure, in US $ PPP per capita. Data for 2000.
SOURCE: WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva
Heart disease deaths	64.6 per 100,000 people		[22nd of 26]
DEFINITION: Heart disease deaths per 100000 population (1995-1998)
SOURCE: OECD
Hospital beds	7.3 per 1,000 people		[15th of 29]
DEFINITION: Hospital beds per 1,000 people
SOURCE: World Health Organization
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people	6.9 per 1,000 people		[11th of 149]
DEFINITION: Hospital beds include inpatient beds available in public, private, general, and specialized hospitals and rehabilitation centers. In most cases beds for both acute and chronic care are included.		View time series
SOURCE: OECD
Infant mortality rate	4.76		[165th of 179]
DEFINITION: The number of deaths of infants under one year old in a given year per 1,000 live births in the same year. This rate is often used as an indicator of the level of health in a country
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Life expectancy > Healthy years	69.7 years		[19th of 29]
DEFINITION: Estimated number of years of life while healthy, as defined by the OECD. Estimates for 2001. See source for details.
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Motor vehicle deaths	15.4 deaths per 100,000 peopl		[2nd of 17]
DEFINITION: Fatalities per 100000 population due to motor vehicle accidents (1999).
SOURCE: OECD
Obesity	11.7%		[19th of 29]
DEFINITION: Percentage of total population who have a BMI (body mass index) greater than 30 Kg/sq.meters (Data for Australia, Austria and Portugal is from 2002. All other data is from 2003). Obesity rates are defined as the percentage of the population with a Body Mass Index (BMI) over 30. The BMI is a single number that evaluates an individual's weight status in relation to height (weight/height2, with weight in kilograms and height in metres). For Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, figures are based on health examinations, rather than self-reported information. Obesity estimates derived from health examinations are generally higher and more reliable than those coming from self-reports, because they preclude any misreporting of people's height and weight. However, health examinations are only conducted regularly in a few countries (OECD).
SOURCE: GECD Health Data 2002
Physicians > per 1,000 people	3.9 per 1,000 people		[5th of 148]
DEFINITION: Physicians are defined as graduates of any facility or school of medicine who are working in the country in any medical field (practice, teaching, research).		View time series
SOURCE: OECD Health Data 2005
Spending > Per person	2,137		[12th of 133]
DEFINITION: Spending per capita (PPP) in $US 1998.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Suicide rate > Gender ratio	3.1 per 100,000 people		[43rd of 76]
DEFINITION: Suicide rates per 100,000 people
SOURCE: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Teen birth rate	10		[36th of 40]
DEFINITION: Average number of births for every 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19
SOURCE: annual figures:WHO databank, National Bureaus of Statistics. Department of Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis Population Division (1995). World population prospects. The 1994 revision. New York: United Nations. Partly computations: Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychiatric Clinic, University of W?rzburg, Germany
Teenage pregnancy	2,975 births		[18th of 26]
DEFINITION: Number of births to women aged below twenty. Data for 1998.
SOURCE: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 1994 Revision, 1994
Tobacco > Cigarette consumption	2,428		[9th of 106]
DEFINITION: Approximate average number of cigarettes smoked per adult per year
SOURCE: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
Tobacco > Total adult smokers	28		[65th of 121]
DEFINITION: Total adults smoking
SOURCE: World Health Organization
Water availability	1,786 cubic meters		[126th of 169]
DEFINITION: Water resources: total renewable per capita (m3/capita year)
SOURCE: World Health Organization2005

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