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Adolescent fertility rate > births per 1,000 women ages 15-19	29.66 births		[114th of 184]
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Birth rate, crude > per 1,000 people	17.2 per 1,000 people		[114th 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: World Development Indicators database
Fertility rate, total > births per woman	2.3 births per woman		[101st of 194]
DEFINITION: Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with current age-specific fertility rates.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Incidence of tuberculosis > per 100,000 people	25.29 per 100,000 people		[138th of 200]
DEFINITION: Incidence of tuberculosis is the estimated number of new pulmonary, smear positive, and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis cases.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Infant mortality rate	7.89		[136th 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 > Date of information	2006 est.
DEFINITION:
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Life expectancy at birth, female > years	77.99 years		[49th 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: Wikipedia: List of countries by life expectancy
Life expectancy at birth, male > years	72.46 years		[50th 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: World Development Indicators database
Life expectancy at birth, total > years	75.16 years		[49th 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: World Development Indicators database
Physicians > per 1,000 people	1.98 per 1,000 people		[51st 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: World Development Indicators database
Prevalence of undernourishment > % of population	10 %		[78th of 172]
DEFINITION: Population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption (also referred to as prevalence of undernourishment) shows the percentage of the population whose food intake is insufficient to meet dietary energy requirements continuously. Data showing as 2.5 signifies a prevalence of undernourishment below 2.5%.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Tuberculosis cases detected under DOTS > %	66.78 %		[71st of 178]
DEFINITION: DOTS detection rate is the percentage of estimated new infectious tuberculosis cases detected under the directly observed treatment, short course case detection and treatment strategy.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Tuberculosis treatment success rate > % of registered cases	94.44 %		[9th of 171]
DEFINITION: Tuberculosis treatment success rate is the percentage of new, registered smear-positive (infectious) cases that were cured or in which a full course of treatment was completed.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database

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