NationMaster - Iranian Health statistics

Access to sanitation	99%		[26th of 129]
Children Underweight Rate	2%		[67th of 95]
Contraception	73%		[12th of 89]
Drug access	80%		[73rd of 163]
Infant mortality rate	42.86		[57th of 179]
Intestinal diseases death rate	15.7%		[59th of 141]
Life expectancy at birth > Female	72.07 years		[140th of 220]
Malaria cases > per 100,000	27		[72nd of 94]
Maternal mortality	37 per 100,000		[93rd of 136]
Probability of not reaching 40	9.3%		[74th of 111]
Respiratory disease child death rate	36.84 (est)
Spending > Per person	128		[63rd of 133]
Spending > Public	1.7%
Transplants > Kidney	228 kidney transplants		[20th of 47]
Transplants > Total	228 transplants		[21st of 49]
Tuberculosis cases > Per 100,000	32		[97th of 165]
Tuberculosis cases detected under DOTS > %	63.88 %	...	[86th of 178]
Tuberculosis immunisation	99%		[15th of 134]
Tuberculosis treatment success rate > % of registered cases	83.59 %	...	[65th of 171]
Water availability	1,955 cubic meters		[121st of 169]

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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; ; Abstracted from center-specific counts (Worldwide Transplant Center Directory, 2002); World Development Indicators database

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Iran, iran (islamic rep. of), iran (islamic republic of), Iran, Islamic Rep. of, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Islamic Rep. of Iran

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