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Access to sanitation	86%		[61st of 129]
Birth rate, crude > per 1,000 people	12.9 per 1,000 people		[135th of 195]
Source: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Children Underweight Rate	4%		[52nd of 95]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Drug access	50%		[105th of 163]
Source: UNICEF
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people	3.1 per 1,000 people		[39th of 149]
Source: WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva
Infant mortality rate	22.31		[87th of 179]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Life expectancy at birth > Female	80.71 years		[49th of 226]
Source: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Life expectancy at birth > Male	75.12 years		[49th of 226]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Life expectancy at birth > Total population	77.78 years		[50th of 225]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Physicians > per 1,000 people	1.31 per 1,000 people		[43rd of 148]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Smoking prevalence, males > % of adults	60 %		[2nd of 42]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Spending > Per person	36		[92nd of 133]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Suicide rate > Females	1.7 per 100,000 people		[64th of 80]
Source: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Suicide rate > Gender ratio	1.7 per 100,000 people		[71st of 76]
Source: 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
Suicide rate > Males	2.9 per 100,000 people		[73rd of 80]
Source: 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
Suicide rate > Young males	3.4 per 100,000 people		[43rd of 43]
Source: 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
Teen birth rate	14		[29th of 40]
Source: WHO, World Health Statistics Annual, 1994, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1994
Tobacco > Total adult smokers	39		[16th of 121]
Source: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 1994 Revision, 1994
Total expenditure on health as % of GDP	6.1%		[87th of 185]
Source: World Health Organization2005
Water availability	13,306 cubic meters		[54th of 169]
Source: World Health Organization

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