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Abortions	97,023		[8th of 19]
Access to sanitation	92%		[48th of 129]
Source: UNHDR
Birth rate, crude > per 1,000 people	9 per 1,000 people		[175th of 195]
Source: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Contraception	86%		[1st of 89]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Drug access	80%		[84th of 163]
Source: UN (United Nations). 2002. United Nations Population Division Database on Contraceptive Use. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. January. New York
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people	6.3 per 1,000 people		[18th 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	21.31		[92nd of 179]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Life expectancy at birth > Male	69.22 years		[115th of 226]
Source: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Life expectancy at birth > Total population	72.83 years		[110th of 225]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Maternal mortality	15 per 100,000		[109th of 136]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Physicians > per 1,000 people	3.56 per 1,000 people		[10th 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	62		[82nd of 133]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Suicide rate > Females	9.7 per 100,000 people		[17th of 80]
Source: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Suicide rate > Gender ratio	2.6 per 100,000 people		[55th 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	25.3 per 100,000 people		[20th 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	15.4 per 100,000 people		[22nd 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	59		[2nd of 40]
Source: WHO, World Health Statistics Annual, 1994, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1994
Tobacco > Cigarette consumption	2,574		[7th of 106]
Source: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 1994 Revision, 1994
Tobacco > Total adult smokers	36.5		[28th of 121]
Source: World Health Organization
Water availability	2,680 cubic meters		[112nd of 169]
Source: World Health Organization2005

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