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Access to sanitation	100%		[5th of 129]
Age of women at first childbirth	29.1 years old		[2nd of 17]
DEFINITION: Average age of women at first chilbirth for selected OECD countries.
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Birth rate, crude > per 1,000 people	11.9 per 1,000 people		[141st of 195]
DEFINITION: Crude birth rate indicates the number of live births occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the population growth rate in the absence of migration.		View time series
SOURCE: OECD
Breast cancer incidence	26 per 100,000 females		[8th of 26]
DEFINITION: Breast cancer incidence per 100,000 females.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Daily smokers	26%		[17th of 30]
DEFINITION: Data on tobacco consumption - this is a percentage of the total population who smoke at least one cigarette a day.(Data for Portugal and Austria is from 2002. All other data is from 2003).
SOURCE: World Health Organization
Death from cancer	253.5 deaths per 100,000 peopl		[16th of 16]
DEFINITION: Cancer death incidence (per 100 000 population) for year 2000.
SOURCE: OECD Health Data 2005
Drug access	95%		[15th of 163]
DEFINITION: Population with access to essential drugs 2000. The data on access to essential drugs are based on statistical estimates received from World Health Organization (WHO) country and regional offices and regional advisers and through the World Drug Situation Survey carried out in 1998-99. These estimates represent the best information available to the WHO Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy to date and are currently being validated by WHO member states. The department assigns the estimates to four groupings: very low access (0-49%), low access (50-79%), medium access (80-94%) and good access (95-100%). These groupings, used here in presenting the data, are often employed by the WHO in interpreting the data, as the actual estimates may suggest a higher level of accuracy than the data afford. b.
SOURCE: OECD Health Data 2004
Health care funding > Total per capita	$1,764.00 per capita		[16th of 25]
DEFINITION: Public and private funding of health care expenditure, in US $ PPP per capita. Data for 2000.
SOURCE: WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva
Heart disease deaths	122 per 100,000 people		[7th of 26]
DEFINITION: Heart disease deaths per 100000 population (1995-1998)
SOURCE: OECD
Hospital beds	4.1 per 1,000 people		[23rd of 29]
DEFINITION: Hospital beds per 1,000 people
SOURCE: World Health Organization
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people	4.2 per 1,000 people		[34th of 149]
DEFINITION: Hospital beds include inpatient beds available in public, private, general, and specialized hospitals and rehabilitation centers. In most cases beds for both acute and chronic care are included.		View time series
SOURCE: OECD
Maternal mortality	7 per 100,000		[123rd of 136]
DEFINITION: Maternal mortality reported per 100,000 births 1985-1999. The maternal mortality data are those reported by national authorities. UNICEF and the World Health Organization periodically evaluate these data and make adjustments to account for the well-documented problems of under-reporting and misclassification of maternal deaths and to develop estimates for countries with no data (for details on the most recent estimates see Hill, AbouZahr and Wardlaw 2001). Data refer to the most recent year available during the period specified.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Obesity	23%		[3rd of 29]
DEFINITION: Percentage of total population who have a BMI (body mass index) greater than 30 Kg/sq.meters (Data for Australia, Austria and Portugal is from 2002. All other data is from 2003). Obesity rates are defined as the percentage of the population with a Body Mass Index (BMI) over 30. The BMI is a single number that evaluates an individual's weight status in relation to height (weight/height2, with weight in kilograms and height in metres). For Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, figures are based on health examinations, rather than self-reported information. Obesity estimates derived from health examinations are generally higher and more reliable than those coming from self-reports, because they preclude any misreporting of people's height and weight. However, health examinations are only conducted regularly in a few countries (OECD).
SOURCE: UNICEF (United Nations Children?s Fund). 2002. Official Summary: The State of the World's Children 2002. New York: Oxford University Press.
Obesity in men	22.1%		[1st of 11]
DEFINITION: Percentage of men who have a BMI (body mass index) greater than 30 Kg/sq.meters (Data for 2002).
SOURCE: OECD Health Data 2005
Obesity in women	22.8%		[2nd of 11]
DEFINITION: Percentage of women who have a BMI (body mass index) greater than 30 Kg/sq.meters (Data for 2002).
SOURCE: OECD Health Data 2004
Physicians > per 1,000 people	2.2 per 1,000 people		[36th of 148]
DEFINITION: Physicians are defined as graduates of any facility or school of medicine who are working in the country in any medical field (practice, teaching, research).		View time series
SOURCE: OECD Health Data 2004
Spending > Per person	1,675		[18th of 133]
DEFINITION: Spending per capita (PPP) in $US 1998.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Suicide rate > Gender ratio	3.4 per 100,000 people		[38th of 76]
DEFINITION: Suicide rates per 100,000 people
SOURCE: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Teen birth rate	33		[14th of 40]
DEFINITION: Average number of births for every 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19
SOURCE: 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
Water availability	2,465 cubic meters		[117th of 169]
DEFINITION: Water resources: total renewable per capita (m3/capita year)
SOURCE: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 1994 Revision, 1994

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