NationMaster - Kuwaiti Health statistics

Children Underweight Rate	3%		[62nd of 95]
Contraception	50%		[47th of 89]
Drug access	95%		[22nd of 163]
Infant mortality rate	10.26		[121st of 179]
Intestinal diseases death rate	0.26%		[133rd of 141]
Life expectancy at birth > Female	78.52 years		[72nd of 220]
Maternal mortality	5 per 100,000		[133rd of 136]
Probability of not reaching 40	3%		[111st of 111]
Respiratory disease child death rate	3.53
Suicide rate > Females	1.5 per 100,000 people		[66th of 80]
Suicide rate > Gender ratio	1.4 per 100,000 people		[76th of 76]
Suicide rate > Males	2.1 per 100,000 people		[75th of 80]
Tobacco > Cigarette consumption	3,062		[3rd of 106]
Tobacco > Total adult smokers	15.6		[103rd of 0]
Total expenditure on health as % of GDP	3.8%		[159th of 185]
Total fertility rate	2.6		[94th of 166]
Tuberculosis cases > Per 100,000	27		[103rd of 165]
Tuberculosis cases detected under DOTS > %	65.65 %	...	[78th of 178]
Tuberculosis treatment success rate > % of registered cases	63.16 %	...	[150th of 171]
Water availability	10 cubic meters		[170th of 169]

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SOURCES: 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 ; 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; 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; World Health Organization; UNHDR; World Development Indicators database;

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Kuwait, State of Kuwait, Dawlat al Kuwayt, Al Kuwayt

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