NationMaster - Guyanese Health statistics

Access to sanitation	67%		[86th of 129]
Drug access	0%		[140th of 163]
Infant mortality rate	37.22		[59th of 179]
Life expectancy at birth > Female	68.95 years		[156th of 220]
Malaria cases > per 100,000	3,074		[24th of 94]
Maternal mortality	110 per 100,000		[61st of 136]
Probability of not reaching 40	15.4%		[56th of 111]
Spending > Per person	51		[85th of 133]
Spending > Public	4.5%
Tobacco > Cigarette consumption	590		[74th of 106]
Tobacco > Total young smokers	15.3%		[23rd of 30]
Tobacco > Young female smokers	11.1		[25th of 32]
Tobacco > Young male smokers	11.1		[25th of 32]
Total expenditure on health as % of GDP	5.6%		[106th of 185]
Total fertility rate	2.3		[106th of 166]
Tuberculosis cases > Per 100,000	65		[68th of 165]
Tuberculosis cases detected under DOTS > %	39.57 %	...	[142nd of 178]
Tuberculosis immunisation	91%		[75th of 134]
Tuberculosis treatment success rate > % of registered cases	71.54 %	...	[117th of 171]
Water availability	316,689 cubic meters		[4th 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; 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: Guyana, Co-operative Republic of Guyana

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