NationMaster - Saudi Health statistics

Access to sanitation	99%		[23rd of 129]
Children Underweight Rate	3%		[58th of 95]
Contraception	32%		[59th of 89]
Drug access	95%		[12th of 163]
Infant mortality rate	13.7		[112nd of 179]
Intestinal diseases death rate	11.28%		[74th of 141]
Life expectancy at birth > Female	78.02 years		[78th of 220]
Malaria cases > per 100,000	32		[70th of 94]
Plastic surgery procedures	550		[33rd of 34]
Probability of not reaching 40	6.4%		[90th of 111]
Respiratory disease child death rate	36.42 (est)
Total fertility rate	4.5		[44th of 166]
Transplants > Kidney	116 kidney transplants		[25th of 47]
Transplants > Liver	12 liver transplants		[27th of 29]
Transplants > Total	128 transplants		[28th of 49]
Tuberculosis cases > Per 100,000	27		[102nd of 165]
Tuberculosis cases detected under DOTS > %	37.6 %	...	[148th of 178]
Tuberculosis immunisation	99%		[5th of 134]
Tuberculosis treatment success rate > % of registered cases	82.01 %	...	[74th of 171]
Water availability	118 cubic meters		[163rd 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; International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery; UN 2001 via backone.pdf; World Health Organization; Abstracted from center-specific counts (Worldwide Transplant Center Directory, 2002); World Development Indicators database;

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Al Mamlakah al Arabiyah as Suudiyah, Al Arabiyah as Suudiyah , saudi arabia b, saudi-arabia

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1st June 2007

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