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Asia > Korea, South > Health

KOREAN HEALTH STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Access to sanitation 63% [90th of 129]
Child maltreatment deaths 0.6 per 100,000 children [15th of 27]
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]
Infant mortality rate 7.18 [143rd of 179]
Intestinal diseases death rate 2.62% [100th of 141]
Malaria cases > per 100,000 9 [79th of 94]
Maternal mortality 20 per 100,000 [104th of 136]
Obesity 3.2% [28th of 29]
Plastic surgery procedures 9,560 [15th of 34]
Probability of not reaching 40 4% [107th of 111]
Respiratory disease child death rate 2.55
Spending > Per person 470 [32nd of 133]
Spending > Public 2.4% (1999)
Suicide rate > Females 6.1 per 100,000 people [30th of 80]
Suicide rate > Gender ratio 2.1 per 100,000 people [66th of 76]
Suicide rate > Males 12.8 per 100,000 people [45th of 80]
Tuberculosis cases > Per 100,000 48 [80th of 165]

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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; 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; World Health Organisation. 1997-1999 World Health Statistics Annual. Geneva: WHO, 2000; 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 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

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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