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Access to sanitation	91%		[49th of 129]
Birth rate, crude > per 1,000 people	24.5 per 1,000 people		[77th of 195]
Source: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Contraceptive prevalence > % of women ages 15-49	54 %		[13th of 57]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Drug access	95%		[39th of 163]
Source: World Development Indicators database
expenditure per capita > current US$	292.9 $		[64th 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	6.9 %		[67th of 187]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Fertility rate, total > births per woman	3 births per woman		[76th of 194]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people	5.7 per 1,000 people		[22nd of 149]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Infant mortality rate	14.62		[110th of 179]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Infant mortality rate > Total	13.58 deaths/1,000 live births		[136th of 225]
Source: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Life expectancy at birth > Female	67.47 years		[164th of 226]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Life expectancy at birth > Male	63.74 years		[158th of 226]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Life expectancy at birth > Total population	65.6 years		[162nd of 225]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Life expectancy at birth, total > years	72.97 years		[71st of 194]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Maternal mortality	1 per 100,000		[136th of 136]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Physicians > per 1,000 people	0.5 per 1,000 people		[89th 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	193		[50th of 133]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Spending > Public	2.9%
Source: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Total expenditure on health as % of GDP	5.7%		[105th of 185]
Tuberculosis cases > Per 100,000	3		[161st of 165]
Source: World Health Organization

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