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• Most Zambians don't live to see their 40th birthday.
• On the probability of not reaching 40 graph, the top 34 countries are all African.
• In Botswana, more than one in three adults aged 15-49 are infected with HIV/AIDS.
• The average woman in New Zealand doesn't give birth until she is nearly 30 years old.
• Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.
• 22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.
• In Ethiopia, nine out of ten births occur without skilled health staff present.
• The United States tops the world in plastic surgery procedures. Next comes Mexico.
• Sick people is Switzerland stay in hospital for longer than the people of any other nation - almost 10 days, on average. Switzerland also has the world's highest number of hospital beds per capita.
• Only 4% of married women in Chad are using contraceptives.
• More than half of all doctors in Finland are female.
• One in three Italian babies is born by caesarean section.

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