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South America > Brazil > Health

BRAZILIAN HEALTH STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Access to sanitation 50% [102nd of 129]
Children Underweight Rate 1% [89th of 95]
Contraception 77% [6th of 89]
Drug access 0% [161st of 163]
Infant mortality rate 30.66 [68th of 179]
Intestinal diseases death rate 14.43% [67th of 141]
Malaria cases > per 100,000 344 [51st of 94]
Maternal mortality 160 per 100,000 [52nd of 136]
Plastic surgery procedures 47,957 [3rd of 34]
Probability of not reaching 40 11.3% [66th of 111]
Respiratory disease child death rate 28.63 (est)
Spending > Per person 308 [38th of 133]
Spending > Public 2.9% (1999)
Suicide rate > Females 1.4 per 100,000 people [67th of 80]
Suicide rate > Gender ratio 3.2 per 100,000 people [41st of 76]
Suicide rate > Males 4.6 per 100,000 people [68th of 80]
Tobacco > Cigarette consumption 858 [63rd of 106]
Transplants > Liver 147 liver transplants [9th of 29]
Transplants > Pancreas 17 pancreas transplants [2nd of 11]
Tuberculosis cases > Per 100,000 44 [88th of 165]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, December 2003; 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; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; World Health Organisation. 1997-1999 World Health Statistics Annual. Geneva: WHO, 2000; UNHDR; UNICEF (United Nations Children?s Fund). 2002. Official Summary: The State of the World's Children 2002. New York: Oxford University Press.; International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery; UN 2001 via backone.pdf; World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC; ; 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; World Health Organization; Abstracted from center-specific counts (Worldwide Transplant Center Directory, 2002)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Brazil, Federative Republic of Brazil, Republica Federativa do Brasil, Brasil

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