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Access to sanitation	96%		[37th of 129]
Birth rate, crude > per 1,000 people	15.76 per 1,000 people		[118th of 195]
DEFINITION: Crude birth rate indicates the number of live births occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the population growth rate in the absence of migration.		View time series
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Contraception	66%		[16th of 89]
DEFINITION: % contraceptive prevalence 1995 - 2000. Data refer to married women aged 15-49, but the actual age range covered may vary across countries.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Dependency ratio per 100	60		[88th of 166]
DEFINITION: Dependency ratio (per 100), 2003
SOURCE: UN (United Nations). 2002. United Nations Population Division Database on Contraceptive Use. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. January. New York
Drug access	95%		[46th of 163]
DEFINITION: Population with access to essential drugs 2000. The data on access to essential drugs are based on statistical estimates received from World Health Organization (WHO) country and regional offices and regional advisers and through the World Drug Situation Survey carried out in 1998-99. These estimates represent the best information available to the WHO Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy to date and are currently being validated by WHO member states. The department assigns the estimates to four groupings: very low access (0-49%), low access (50-79%), medium access (80-94%) and good access (95-100%). These groupings, used here in presenting the data, are often employed by the WHO in interpreting the data, as the actual estimates may suggest a higher level of accuracy than the data afford. b.
SOURCE: World Health Organization
expenditure per capita > current US$	175.6 $		[89th of 186]
DEFINITION: Total health expenditure is the sum of public and private health expenditures as a ratio of total population. It covers the provision of health services (preventive and curative), family planning activities, nutrition activities, and emergency aid designated for health but does not include provision of water and sanitation. Data are in current U.S. dollars.		View time series
SOURCE: WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people	1.4 per 1,000 people		[52nd of 149]
DEFINITION: Hospital beds include inpatient beds available in public, private, general, and specialized hospitals and rehabilitation centers. In most cases beds for both acute and chronic care are included.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Infant mortality rate	12.81		[116th of 179]
DEFINITION: The number of deaths of infants under one year old in a given year per 1,000 live births in the same year. This rate is often used as an indicator of the level of health in a country
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Life expectancy at birth, total > years	70.9 years		[94th of 194]
DEFINITION: Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.		View time series
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Maternal mortality	95 per 100,000		[66th of 136]
DEFINITION: Maternal mortality reported per 100,000 births 1985-1999. The maternal mortality data are those reported by national authorities. UNICEF and the World Health Organization periodically evaluate these data and make adjustments to account for the well-documented problems of under-reporting and misclassification of maternal deaths and to develop estimates for countries with no data (for details on the most recent estimates see Hill, AbouZahr and Wardlaw 2001). Data refer to the most recent year available during the period specified.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Physicians > per 1,000 people	0.85 per 1,000 people		[45th of 148]
DEFINITION: Physicians are defined as graduates of any facility or school of medicine who are working in the country in any medical field (practice, teaching, research).		View time series
SOURCE: UNICEF (United Nations Children?s Fund). 2002. Official Summary: The State of the World's Children 2002. New York: Oxford University Press.
Probability of not reaching 40	5.4%		[95th of 111]
DEFINITION: Probability at birth of not reaching the age of 40.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Probability of reaching 65 > Male	77.5%		[31st of 159]
DEFINITION: Probability at birth of reaching the age of 65.
SOURCE: UN 2001 via backone.pdf
Smoking prevalence, males > % of adults	37.7 %		[8th of 42]
DEFINITION: Prevalence of smoking, male is the percentage of men who smoke cigarettes. The age range varies among countries but in most is 18 and older or 15 and older.		View time series
SOURCE: UN (United Nations). 2001. World Population Prospects 1950-2050: The 2000 Revision. Database. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. New York
Spending > Per person	157		[55th of 133]
DEFINITION: Spending per capita (PPP) in $US 1998.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Suicide rate > Gender ratio	2.5 per 100,000 people		[57th of 76]
DEFINITION: Suicide rates per 100,000 people
SOURCE: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Tobacco > Cigarette consumption	735		[67th of 106]
DEFINITION: Approximate average number of cigarettes smoked per adult per year
SOURCE: 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
Tobacco > Total adult smokers	14.6		[108th of 121]
DEFINITION: Total adults smoking
SOURCE: World Health Organization
Total expenditure on health as % of GDP	6%		[93rd of 185]
DEFINITION: Total expenditure on health as % of GDP, 2002
SOURCE: World Health Organization2005
Water availability	3,651 cubic meters		[94th of 169]
DEFINITION: Water resources: total renewable per capita (m3/capita year)
SOURCE: World Health Organization

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, December 2003; World Development Indicators database; UN (United Nations). 2002. United Nations Population Division Database on Contraceptive Use. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. January. New York; World Health Organization; 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; 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; UN (United Nations). 2001. World Population Prospects 1950-2050: The 2000 Revision. Database. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. New York; 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; World Health Organization; World Health Organization2005;

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Jamaica