NationMaster - Sri Lankan Health statistics

Access to sanitation	89%		[54th of 129]
Children Underweight Rate	5%		[40th of 95]
Drug access	95%		[6th of 163]
Intestinal diseases death rate	15.31%		[63rd of 141]
Life expectancy at birth > Female	76.88 years		[93rd of 220]
Malaria cases > per 100,000	1,110		[37th of 94]
Maternal mortality	60 per 100,000		[78th of 136]
Probability of not reaching 40	5.8%		[93rd of 111]
Respiratory disease child death rate	47.2 (est)
Spending > Per person	29		[97th of 133]
Spending > Public	1.7% (1999)
Suicide rate > Females	18.9 per 100,000 people		[1st of 80]
Suicide rate > Gender ratio	2.5 per 100,000 people		[56th of 76]
Suicide rate > Males	46.9 per 100,000 people		[7th of 80]
Total fertility rate	2		[121st of 166]
Tuberculosis cases > Per 100,000	50		[78th of 165]
Tuberculosis cases detected under DOTS > %	85.76 %	...	[31st of 178]
Tuberculosis immunisation	97%		[42nd of 134]
Tuberculosis treatment success rate > % of registered cases	85.23 %	...	[52nd of 171]
Water availability	2,642 cubic meters		[113rd of 169]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, December 2003; UNICEF; WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva; World Health Organisation. 1997-1999 World Health Statistics Annual. Geneva: WHO, 2000; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; 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; ; 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; World Development Indicators database

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, ceylon

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