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Southeast Asia > Burma > Health

BURMESE HEALTH STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Birth rate, crude > per 1,000 people 19.23 per 1,000 people Time series [100th of 195]
Children Underweight Rate 9% [21st of 95]
Contraception 33% [58th of 89]
Drug access 50% [108th of 163]
HIV AIDS > Adult prevalence rate 1.2% Time series [49th of 136]
HIV AIDS > Deaths 20,000 Time series [27th of 102]
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people 0.6 per 1,000 people Time series [60th of 149]
Infant mortality rate 68.78 [38th of 179]
Life expectancy at birth > Female 65.28 years Time series [168th of 226]
Life expectancy at birth > Male 60.73 years Time series [169th of 226]
Life expectancy at birth > Total population 62.94 years Time series [170th of 225]
Malaria cases > per 100,000 224 [56th of 94]
Maternal mortality 230 per 100,000 [43rd of 136]
Physicians > per 1,000 people 0.36 per 1,000 people Time series [26th of 148]
Probability of not reaching 40 26% [42nd of 111]
Smoking prevalence, males > % of adults 36.4 % Time series [15th of 42]
Spending > Per person 97 [70th of 133]
Tobacco > Total adult smokers 32.9 [49th of 121]
Total expenditure on health as % of GDP 2.2% [182nd of 185]
Water availability 21,898 cubic meters [41st of 169]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; UNICEF; UN (United Nations). 2002. United Nations Population Division Database on Contraceptive Use. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. January. New York; WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; UNHDR; UNICEF (United Nations Children?s Fund). 2002. Official Summary: The State of the World's Children 2002. New York: Oxford University Press.; UN 2001 via backone.pdf; World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC; World Health Organization2005; World Health Organization;

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Burma, Union of Burma, Pyidaungzu Myanma Naingngandaw (translated by the US Government as Union of Myanma and by the Burmese as Union of Myanmar), Myanma Naingngandaw, burma (myanmar), myanmar (burma), myanmar

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