NationMaster - Turkmenistani Health statistics

Access to sanitation	81%		[70th of 129]
Contraception	62%		[24th of 89]
Drug access	50%		[129th of 163]
Intestinal diseases death rate	23.34%		[47th of 141]
Life expectancy at birth > Female	71.54 years		[143rd of 220]
Malaria cases > per 100,000	1		[89th of 94]
Maternal mortality	65 per 100,000		[76th of 136]
Probability of not reaching 60	27.6%		[3rd of 48]
Respiratory disease child death rate	251.62
Spending > Per person	30		[96th of 133]
Spending > Public	4.1%
Suicide rate > Females	3.4 per 100,000 people		[47th of 80]
Suicide rate > Gender ratio	2.4 per 100,000 people		[59th of 76]
Suicide rate > Males	8.1 per 100,000 people		[57th of 80]
Tobacco > Cigarette consumption	2,307		[12th of 106]
Tuberculosis cases > Per 100,000	56		[76th of 165]
Tuberculosis immunisation	99%		[22nd of 134]
Tuberculosis treatment success rate > % of registered cases	86.42 %	...	[46th of 171]
Unmet need for contraception > % of married women ages 15-49	10.1 %	...	[12th of 13]
Water availability	5,218 cubic meters		[84th of 169]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, December 2003; 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; 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.; 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; World Health Organization; UNICEF; World Development Indicators database

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