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Africa > Central African Republic > Health

CENTRAL AFRICAN HEALTH STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Access to sanitation 43% [108th of 129]
Children Underweight Rate 6% [37th of 95]
Contraception 15% [78th of 89]
Drug access 50% [131st of 163]
Infant mortality rate 92.15 [18th of 179]
Intestinal diseases death rate 33.51% [27th of 141]
Life expectancy at birth > Female 43.79 years [209th of 220]
Malaria cases > per 100,000 2,207 [31st of 94]
Maternal mortality 1,100 per 100,000 [3rd of 136]
Probability of not reaching 40 45.3% [11th of 111]
Respiratory disease child death rate 170.89 (est)
Spending > Per person 9 [124th of 133]
Spending > Public 2.0%
Tuberculosis cases > Per 100,000 255 [13th of 165]
Tuberculosis immunisation 62% [124th of 134]
Tuberculosis treatment success rate > % of registered cases 91.36 % ... [17th of 171]
Unmet need for contraception > % of married women ages 15-49 16.2 % ... [5th of 13]
Water availability 38,849 cubic meters [27th of 169]
Women circumcised 0.8 [23rd of 27]
Women circumcised share 0.8% [23rd of 27]

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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; 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 Development Indicators database; Unicef (1994)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Central African Republic, Republique Centrafricaine, central af. r., central afr. rep., central africa, central african rep.

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Mirkka Henttonen (Central African Republic/Finland)
16th May 2007 		According to the census of 2003, the maternal mortality rate is
1,355 per 100,000 in CAR.

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