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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]
Drug access 95% [49th of 163]
Infant mortality rate 10.26 [122nd of 179]
Intestinal diseases death rate 9.28% [77th of 141]
Life expectancy at birth > Female 79.94 years [58th of 220]
Malaria cases > per 100,000 42 [66th of 94]
Maternal mortality 29 per 100,000 [98th of 136]
Probability of not reaching 40 4% [108th of 111]
Respiratory disease child death rate 6.35
Spending > Per person 257 [41st of 133]
Spending > Public 5.2%
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]
Transplants > Total 26 transplants [44th of 49]
Tuberculosis cases > Per 100,000 7 [138th of 165]
Tuberculosis cases detected under DOTS > % 118.22 % ... [4th of 178]
Tuberculosis immunisation 89% [86th of 134]
Tuberculosis treatment success rate > % of registered cases 93.54 % ... [13th of 171]
Water availability 27,932 cubic meters [34th of 169]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, December 2003; 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; ; 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; Abstracted from center-specific counts (Worldwide Transplant Center Directory, 2002); World Development Indicators database; UNICEF

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

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