NationMaster - Chinese Health statistics

Access to sanitation	83%		[64th of 129]
Contraception	84%		[2nd of 89]
Drug access	80%		[63rd of 163]
Infant mortality rate	25.28		[81st of 179]
Intestinal diseases death rate	5.08%		[90th of 141]
Life expectancy at birth > Female	74.82 years		[118th of 220]
Malaria cases > per 100,000	1		[90th of 94]
Maternal mortality	55 per 100,000		[80th of 136]
Probability of not reaching 40	7.9%		[82nd of 111]
Respiratory disease child death rate	62.56 (est)
Spending > Per person	40		[87th of 133]
Spending > Public	2.1% (1999)
Tobacco > Cigarette consumption	1,791		[33rd of 106]
Total expenditure on health as % of GDP	5.8%		[97th of 185]
Total fertility rate	1.8		[132nd of 166]
Tuberculosis cases > Per 100,000	107		[52nd of 165]
Tuberculosis cases detected under DOTS > %	79.67 %	...	[46th of 178]
Tuberculosis immunisation	92%		[74th of 134]
Tuberculosis treatment success rate > % of registered cases	93.78 %	...	[12th of 171]
Water availability	2,259 cubic meters		[118th of 169]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, December 2003; 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; 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; ; World Health Organization; World Health Organization; World Development Indicators database; UNICEF

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: China, People's Republic of China, Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo, Zhong Guo, China; Peoples Republic of, China, People's Republic, China, People's Rep, China, People's Rep. of, China PR

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