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Access to sanitation	83%		[65th of 129]
Birth rate, crude > per 1,000 people	9 per 1,000 people		[176th of 195]
DEFINITION: Crude birth rate indicates the number of live births occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the population growth rate in the absence of migration.		View time series
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Children Underweight Rate	1%		[87th of 95]
DEFINITION: Children under 5 severely underweight, according to UNICEF estimates.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Contraceptive prevalence > % of women ages 15-49	48 %		[18th of 57]
DEFINITION: Contraceptive prevalence rate is the percentage of women who are practicing, or whose sexual partners are practicing, any form of contraception. It is usually measured for married women ages 15-49 only.		View time series
SOURCE: UNICEF
Dependency ratio per 100	39		[165th of 166]
DEFINITION: Dependency ratio (per 100), 2003
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
expenditure per capita > current US$	197.6 $		[80th of 186]
DEFINITION: Total health expenditure is the sum of public and private health expenditures as a ratio of total population. It covers the provision of health services (preventive and curative), family planning activities, nutrition activities, and emergency aid designated for health but does not include provision of water and sanitation. Data are in current U.S. dollars.		View time series
SOURCE: World Health Organization
expenditure, total > % of GDP	8.3 %		[33rd of 187]
DEFINITION: Total health expenditure is the sum of public and private health expenditure. It covers the provision of health services (preventive and curative), family planning activities, nutrition activities, and emergency aid designated for health but does not include provision of water and sanitation.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Fertility rate, total > births per woman	1.19 births per woman		[177th of 194]
DEFINITION: Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with current age-specific fertility rates.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people	3.1 per 1,000 people		[40th 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: World Development Indicators database
Infant mortality rate	21.88		[89th 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
Intestinal diseases death rate	6.81%		[85th of 141]
DEFINITION: Death rate from intestinal infectious diseases Units: Deaths/100,000 Population Units: The final number is based on an aggregation of deaths recorded for WHO code B01 for all age groups by sex. These were then combined with UN Population Division population data for the country in that particular year. The death rates were standardized utilizing the age structure for the population of Canada. See page 22 of the2001 ESI report for more details on the methodology.
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Life expectancy at birth, total > years	74.41 years		[56th of 194]
DEFINITION: Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.		View time series
SOURCE: World Health Organisation. 1997-1999 World Health Statistics Annual. Geneva: WHO, 2000
Physicians > per 1,000 people	1.34 per 1,000 people		[43rd 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: World Development Indicators database
Prevalence of HIV, total > % of population ages 15-49	0.1 %		[124th of 148]
DEFINITION: Prevalence of HIV refers to the percentage of people ages 15-49 who are infected with HIV.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Smoking prevalence, females > % of adults	29.7 %		[2nd of 43]
DEFINITION: Prevalence of smoking, female is the percentage of women who smoke cigarettes. The age range varies among countries but in most is 18 and older or 15 and older.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Smoking prevalence, males > % of adults	49.2 %		[4th of 42]
DEFINITION: Prevalence of smoking, male is the percentage of men who smoke cigarettes. The age range varies among countries but in most is 18 and older or 15 and older.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Total expenditure on health as % of GDP	9.2%		[24th of 185]
DEFINITION: Total expenditure on health as % of GDP, 2002
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Total fertility rate	1.3		[163rd of 166]
DEFINITION: Total fertility rate, 2003
SOURCE: World Health Organization
Tuberculosis cases > Per 100,000	35		[94th of 165]
DEFINITION: Tuberculosis cases (per 100,000 people)
SOURCE: World Health Organization
Water availability	9,429 cubic meters		[64th of 169]
DEFINITION: Water resources: total renewable per capita (m3/capita year)
SOURCE: UNHDR

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