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SWISS HEALTH STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Access to sanitation 100% [2nd of 129]
Child maltreatment deaths 0.8 per 100,000 children [6th of 27]
Circulatory disease deaths 218 deaths per 100,000 peopl [15th of 18]
Contraception 82% [3rd of 89]
Daily smokers 26.8% [15th of 30]
Drug access 95% [5th of 163]
Hospital beds 18.3 per 1,000 people [1st of 29]
Maternal mortality 5 per 100,000 [131st of 136]
Obesity 7.7% [27th of 29]
Plastic surgery procedures 16,073 [9th of 34]
Probability of not reaching 60 9.6% [38th of 48]
Spending > Per person 3,857 [2nd of 133]
Spending > Public 7.6%
Suicide rate > Females 11.1 per 100,000 people [14th of 80]
Suicide rate > Gender ratio 2.7 per 100,000 people [50th of 76]
Suicide rate > Males 29.5 per 100,000 people [17th of 80]
Suicide rate > Young males 25 per 100,000 people [11th of 43]
Teen birth rate 5 [41st of 40]
Teenage pregnancy 1,092 births [24th of 26]
Transplants > Liver 84 liver transplants [15th of 29]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, December 2003; UNICEF; OECD Health Data 2003 and Health Data 2002. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australia's Health 2002 ; UN (United Nations). 2002. United Nations Population Division Database on Contraceptive Use. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. January. New York; OECD Health Data 2005; WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva; OECD; UNICEF (United Nations Children?s Fund). 2002. Official Summary: The State of the World's Children 2002. New York: Oxford University Press.; International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery; calculated on the basis of survival data from UN (United Nations). 2001. World Population Prospects 1950-2050: The 2000 Revision. Database. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. New York; 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; WHO, World Health Statistics Annual, 1994, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1994; United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 1994 Revision, 1994; UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre; Abstracted from center-specific counts (Worldwide Transplant Center Directory, 2002)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Switzerland, Swiss Confederation, Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, Confederation Suisse, Confederazione Svizzera, Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera

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