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Birth rate, crude > per 1,000 people	18.1 per 1,000 people		[117th of 195]
Children Underweight Rate	4%		[49th of 95]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Dependency ratio per 100	55		[107th of 166]
Source: UNICEF
Drug access	50%		[99th of 163]
Source: World Health Organization
expenditure per capita > current US$	485.3 $		[47th of 186]
Source: WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva
expenditure, total > % of GDP	4.8 %		[131st of 187]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Fertility rate, total > births per woman	1.7 births per woman		[151st of 194]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people	2.5 per 1,000 people		[43rd of 149]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Infant mortality rate	20.18		[95th of 179]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Life expectancy at birth > Female	76.26 years		[104th of 226]
Source: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Life expectancy at birth > Male	72.33 years		[84th of 226]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Life expectancy at birth > Total population	74.25 years		[91st of 225]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Life expectancy at birth, total > years	75.28 years		[45th of 194]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Maternal mortality	150 per 100,000		[53rd of 136]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Physicians > per 1,000 people	0.17 per 1,000 people		[82nd of 148]
Source: UNICEF (United Nations Children?s Fund). 2002. Official Summary: The State of the World's Children 2002. New York: Oxford University Press.
Spending > Per person	179		[52nd of 133]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Spending > Public	0.4%
Source: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Total expenditure on health as % of GDP	4.8%		[130th of 185]
Total fertility rate	1.6		[146th of 166]
Source: World Health Organization
Water availability	800 cubic meters		[147th of 169]
Source: World Health Organization

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