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AMERICAN HEALTH STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Abortions 1,210,880 [2nd of 19]
Age of women at first childbirth 24.9 years old [15th of 17]
Breast cancer incidence 21.2 per 100,000 females [17th of 26]
Daily smokers 17.5% [29th of 30]
Death from cancer 321.9 deaths per 100,000 peopl [9th of 16]
Drug access 95% [27th of 163]
Heart disease deaths 106.5 per 100,000 people [13th of 26]
Hospital beds 3.6 per 1,000 people [27th of 29]
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people 3.3 per 1,000 people Time series [37th of 149]
Life expectancy at birth > Male 75.29 years Time series [48th of 226]
Life expectancy at birth > Total population 78.14 years Time series [46th of 225]
Maternal mortality 8 per 100,000 [121st of 136]
Obesity 30.6% [1st of 29]
Physicians > per 1,000 people 2.3 per 1,000 people Time series [31st of 148]
Plastic surgery procedures 90,992 [1st of 34]
Spending > Per person 4,271 [1st of 133]
Suicide rate > Females 4.4 per 100,000 people [40th of 80]
Suicide rate > Males 19.8 per 100,000 people [30th of 80]
Teen birth rate 64 [1st of 40]
Teenage pregnancy 494,357 births [1st of 26]

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SOURCES: UNHDR; OECD; World Health Organization; OECD Health Data 2005; OECD Health Data 2004; WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva; OECD; World Development Indicators database; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; 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; 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; United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 1994 Revision, 1994; UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: United States, United States of America, usa, America, The United States, u.s.

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Alex Levy
31st January 2005
Are you sure that what you define as deaths from cancer is really the incidence or occurrence of cancer per 100000 population.When I checked your reference although I can get your values for the year 2000,the definition is different.
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