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Africa > Zimbabwe > Health

ZIMBABWEAN HEALTH STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Access to sanitation 79% [71st of 129]
Bird Flu (H5N1) > Recent animal cases
Two cases affecting 16,000 poultry have been confirmed in the province of Matebeleland. Both cases have involved ostrich stock. To date, no chickens have tested positive and antibodies have only been recorded in two ostrich farms, Dollar Block and Mimosa, in Matabeleland North Province.
Children Underweight Rate 2% [66th of 95]
Contraception 54% [39th of 89]
Drug access 50% [95th of 163]
Intestinal diseases death rate 19.43% [53rd of 141]
Life expectancy at birth > Female 38.35 years [219th of 220]
Malaria cases > per 100,000 5,410 [20th of 94]
Maternal mortality 700 per 100,000 [7th of 136]
Probability of not reaching 40 51.6% [4th of 111]
Respiratory disease child death rate 44.52
Spending > Per person 36 [91st of 133]
Spending > Public 3.0% (1999)
Suicide rate > Females 5.2 per 100,000 people [35th of 80]
Suicide rate > Gender ratio 2 per 100,000 people [69th of 76]
Suicide rate > Males 10.5 per 100,000 people [51st of 80]
Tobacco > Cigarette consumption 399 [83rd of 106]
Tuberculosis cases > Per 100,000 291 [7th of 165]
Tuberculosis treatment success rate > % of registered cases 54.34 % ... [163rd of 171]
Water availability 1,584 cubic meters [133rd of 169]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, December 2003; World Organisation for Animal Health, Febuary 23 2006 Report; UNICEF; 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.; 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; World Development Indicators database

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Zimbabwe, Republic of Zimbabwe

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