NationMaster - Uruguayan Health statistics

Access to sanitation	94%		[43rd of 129]
Children Underweight Rate	1%		[83rd of 95]
Drug access	50%		[125th of 163]
Intestinal diseases death rate	4.3%		[93rd of 141]
Life expectancy at birth > Female	79.3 years		[64th of 220]
Maternal mortality	26 per 100,000		[99th of 136]
Probability of not reaching 40	5.1%		[99th of 111]
Respiratory disease child death rate	11.00
Spending > Per person	621		[29th of 133]
Spending > Public	1.9%
Suicide rate > Females	4.2 per 100,000 people		[41st of 80]
Suicide rate > Gender ratio	4 per 100,000 people		[27th of 76]
Suicide rate > Males	16.6 per 100,000 people		[39th of 80]
Tobacco > Cigarette consumption	1,396		[44th of 106]
Transplants > Total	71 transplants		[37th of 49]
Tuberculosis cases > Per 100,000	15		[123rd of 165]
Tuberculosis cases detected under DOTS > %	82.81 %	...	[40th of 178]
Tuberculosis immunisation	99%		[19th of 134]
Tuberculosis treatment success rate > % of registered cases	86.45 %	...	[48th of 171]
Water availability	41,654 cubic meters		[26th of 169]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, December 2003; UNICEF; 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 ; UNICEF (United Nations Children?s Fund). 2002. Official Summary: The State of the World's Children 2002. New York: Oxford University Press.; UN 2001 via backone.pdf; 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; Abstracted from center-specific counts (Worldwide Transplant Center Directory, 2002); UNHDR; World Development Indicators database

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Uruguay, Oriental Republic of Uruguay, Republica Oriental del Uruguay

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