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Central America and the Caribbean > Costa Rica > Health

COSTA RICAN HEALTH STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Access to sanitation 93% [45th of 129]
Birth rate, crude > per 1,000 people 16.5 per 1,000 people Time series [117th of 195]
Drug access 95% [49th of 163]
HIV AIDS > Adult prevalence rate 0.6% Time series [59th of 136]
HIV AIDS > Deaths 900 Time series [65th of 102]
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people 1.4 per 1,000 people Time series [51st of 149]
Infant mortality rate 10.26 [122nd of 179]
Life expectancy at birth > Female 80.14 years Time series [56th of 226]
Life expectancy at birth > Male 74.79 years Time series [53rd of 226]
Life expectancy at birth > Total population 77.4 years Time series [53rd of 225]
Malaria cases > per 100,000 42 [66th of 94]
Maternal mortality 29 per 100,000 [98th of 136]
Physicians > per 1,000 people 1.32 per 1,000 people Time series [60th of 148]
Probability of not reaching 40 4% [108th of 111]
Smoking prevalence, males > % of adults 29 % Time series [20th of 42]
Spending > Per person 257 [41st of 133]
Suicide rate > Females 1.2 per 100,000 people [71st of 80]
Suicide rate > Gender ratio 5.9 per 100,000 people [7th of 76]
Suicide rate > Males 7.1 per 100,000 people [59th of 80]
Water availability 27,932 cubic meters [34th of 169]

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

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Costa Rica, Republic of Costa Rica, Republica de Costa Rica

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