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Central America and the Caribbean > Nicaragua > Health

NICARAGUAN HEALTH STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Access to sanitation 34% [114th of 129]
Birth rate, crude > per 1,000 people 27.79 per 1,000 people Time series [62nd of 195]
Contraception 60% [31st of 89]
Drug access 0% [163rd of 163]
HIV AIDS > Adult prevalence rate 0.2% Time series [70th of 136]
HIV AIDS > Deaths 400 Time series [82nd of 102]
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people 0.9 per 1,000 people Time series [58th of 149]
Infant mortality rate 30.15 [71st of 179]
Life expectancy at birth > Male 69.08 years Time series [117th of 226]
Life expectancy at birth > Total population 71.21 years Time series [128th of 225]
Malaria cases > per 100,000 402 [48th of 94]
Maternal mortality 150 per 100,000 [55th of 136]
Physicians > per 1,000 people 0.37 per 1,000 people Time series [47th of 148]
Probability of not reaching 40 11.5% [65th of 111]
Spending > Per person 54 [84th of 133]
Suicide rate > Females 1.8 per 100,000 people [62nd of 80]
Suicide rate > Gender ratio 2.4 per 100,000 people [60th of 76]
Suicide rate > Males 4.3 per 100,000 people [70th of 80]
Tobacco > Cigarette consumption 793 [65th of 106]
Water availability 38,787 cubic meters [28th 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; WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; 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; 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: Nicaragua, Republic of Nicaragua, Republica de Nicaragua

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