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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]
Children Underweight Rate 2% [73rd of 95]
Contraception 60% [31st of 89]
Drug access 0% [163rd of 163]
Infant mortality rate 30.15 [71st of 179]
Intestinal diseases death rate 24.07% [44th of 141]
Life expectancy at birth > Female 73.13 years [131st of 220]
Malaria cases > per 100,000 402 [48th of 94]
Maternal mortality 150 per 100,000 [55th of 136]
Probability of not reaching 40 11.5% [65th of 111]
Respiratory disease child death rate 26.20
Spending > Per person 54 [84th of 133]
Spending > Public 8.5%
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]
Tuberculosis cases > Per 100,000 35 [95th of 165]
Unmet need for contraception > % of married women ages 15-49 14.6 % ... [6th of 13]
Water availability 38,787 cubic meters [28th of 169]

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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; 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 ; 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; World Development Indicators database

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Nicaragua, Republic of Nicaragua, Republica de Nicaragua

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