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Abortions	1,210,880		[2nd of 19]
Access to sanitation	100%		[10th of 129]
DEFINITION: The percentage of the total population with access to sanitation facilities
SOURCE: UNHDR
Age of women at first childbirth	24.9 years old		[15th of 17]
DEFINITION: Average age of women at first chilbirth for selected OECD countries.
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Breast cancer incidence	21.2 per 100,000 females		[17th of 26]
DEFINITION: Breast cancer incidence per 100,000 females.
SOURCE: OECD
Daily smokers	17.5%		[29th 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	321.9 deaths per 100,000 peopl		[9th of 16]
DEFINITION: Cancer death incidence (per 100 000 population) for year 2000.
SOURCE: OECD Health Data 2005
Drug access	95%		[27th 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	$4,631.00 per capita		[1st 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	106.5 per 100,000 people		[13th of 26]
DEFINITION: Heart disease deaths per 100000 population (1995-1998)
SOURCE: OECD
Hospital beds	3.6 per 1,000 people		[27th of 29]
DEFINITION: Hospital beds per 1,000 people
SOURCE: World Health Organization
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people	3.3 per 1,000 people		[37th 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	8 per 100,000		[121st 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
Motor vehicle deaths	15.5 deaths per 100,000 peopl		[1st of 17]
DEFINITION: Fatalities per 100000 population due to motor vehicle accidents (1999).
SOURCE: UNICEF (United Nations Children?s Fund). 2002. Official Summary: The State of the World's Children 2002. New York: Oxford University Press.
Obesity	30.6%		[1st 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: GECD Health Data 2002
Physicians > per 1,000 people	2.3 per 1,000 people		[31st 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 2005
Spending > Per person	4,271		[1st of 133]
DEFINITION: Spending per capita (PPP) in $US 1998.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Suicide rate > Gender ratio	4.5 per 100,000 people		[17th of 76]
DEFINITION: Suicide rates per 100,000 people
SOURCE: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Suicide rate > Young males	21.9 per 100,000 people		[15th of 43]
DEFINITION: Suicide death rates (per 100,000 of population) among 15 to 24 year-olds, various countries, latest available data, 1991 to 1993
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
Teen birth rate	64		[1st of 40]
DEFINITION: Average number of births for every 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19
SOURCE: WHO, World Health Statistics Annual, 1994, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1994
Teenage pregnancy	494,357 births		[1st of 26]
DEFINITION: Number of births to women aged below twenty. Data for 1998.
SOURCE: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 1994 Revision, 1994

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