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Central America and the Caribbean > Jamaica > Health

JAMAICAN HEALTH STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Access to sanitation 96% [37th of 129]
Contraception 66% [16th of 89]
Drug access 95% [46th of 163]
Infant mortality rate 12.81 [116th of 179]
Intestinal diseases death rate 14.43% [66th of 141]
Life expectancy at birth > Female 74.9 years [116th of 220]
Maternal mortality 95 per 100,000 [66th of 136]
Probability of not reaching 40 5.4% [95th of 111]
Respiratory disease child death rate 34.07 (est)
Spending > Per person 157 [55th of 133]
Spending > Public 3.0%
Suicide rate > Females 0.2 per 100,000 people [77th of 80]
Suicide rate > Gender ratio 2.5 per 100,000 people [57th of 76]
Suicide rate > Males 0.5 per 100,000 people [79th of 80]
Tobacco > Cigarette consumption 735 [67th of 106]
Tuberculosis cases > Per 100,000 3 [163rd of 165]
Tuberculosis cases detected under DOTS > % 60.69 % ... [94th of 178]
Tuberculosis immunisation 88% [91st of 134]
Tuberculosis treatment success rate > % of registered cases 46.38 % ... [166th of 171]
Water availability 3,651 cubic meters [94th of 169]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, December 2003; 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 ; 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; ; 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; UNHDR; World Development Indicators database; UNICEF

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