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Asia > India > Health

INDIAN HEALTH STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Abortions 596,345 [3rd of 19]
Access to sanitation 72% [77th of 129]
Bird Flu (H5N1) > Recent animal cases
A start of an outbreak occured on 27 January of H5N1 in the state of Maharashtra and district of Nandurbar. Newcastle disease has also been reported from the area. No human cases have been detected. Farm personnel as well as backyard farm owners and their families are being closely monitored. The team of cullers and vaccinators are under chemo-prophylactic cover. No further information has been given and no final report yet released.
Children Underweight Rate 18% [1st of 95]
Contraception 48% [50th of 89]
Drug access 0% [152nd of 163]
Infant mortality rate 57.92 [44th of 179]
Intestinal diseases death rate 24.25% [43rd of 141]
Life expectancy at birth > Female 71.17 years [145th of 220]
Malaria cases > per 100,000 7 [81st of 94]
Maternal mortality 540 per 100,000 [19th of 136]
Plastic surgery procedures 2,259 [25th of 34]
Probability of not reaching 40 16.7% [53rd of 111]
Respiratory disease child death rate 83.54 (est)
Tobacco > Cigarette consumption 129 [101st of 106]
Tuberculosis cases > Per 100,000 199 [23rd of 165]
Tuberculosis immunisation 68% [121st of 134]
Tuberculosis treatment success rate > % of registered cases 86.14 % ... [47th of 171]
Unmet need for contraception > % of married women ages 15-49 15.8 % ... [7th of 13]
Water availability 1,880 cubic meters [123rd of 169]

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SOURCES: UNHDR; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; World Organisation for Animal Health, Febuary 23 2006 Report; 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.; International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery; UN 2001 via backone.pdf; World Health Organization; World Development Indicators database;

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: India, Republic of India

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