FACTOID # 9: Sick people is Switzerland stay in hospital for longer than the people of any other nation - almost 10 days, on average. Switzerland also has the world's highest number of hospital beds per capita.
 
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Asia > Korea, South > Health

Access to sanitation 63% [90th of 129]
Birth rate, crude > per 1,000 people 9 per 1,000 people Time series [177th of 195]
Contraception 80% [5th of 89]
Daily smokers 30.4% [7th of 30]
Drug access 95% [40th of 163]
Hospital beds 5.5 per 1,000 people [17th of 29]
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people 7.1 per 1,000 people Time series [15th of 149]
Infant mortality rate 7.18 [143rd of 179]
Life expectancy at birth, total > years 77.57 years Time series [37th of 194]
Malaria cases > per 100,000 9 [79th of 94]
Maternal mortality 20 per 100,000 [104th of 136]
Obesity 3.2% [28th of 29]
Physicians > per 1,000 people 1.6 per 1,000 people Time series [40th of 148]
Probability of not reaching 40 4% [107th of 111]
Probability of reaching 65 > Male 72.1% [46th of 159]
Smoking prevalence, males > % of adults 64.9 % Time series [3rd of 42]
Spending > Per person 470 [32nd of 133]
Suicide rate > Gender ratio 2.1 per 100,000 people [66th of 76]
Total expenditure on health as % of GDP 5% [121st of 185]
Water availability 1,491 cubic meters [136th of 169]

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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; OECD Health Data 2005; WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva; OECD; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; 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; 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;

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Korea, South, Republic of Korea, South Korea, Taehan-min'guk, korea, republic of, korea, rep. of, korea-south, SKOREA, Korea Republic, Korean Republic, Korea (Rep.), Korea

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