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Access to sanitation	63%		[90th of 129]
Birth rate, crude > per 1,000 people	9 per 1,000 people		[177th of 195]
Source: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Contraception	80%		[5th of 89]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Daily smokers	30.4%		[7th of 30]
Source: UN (United Nations). 2002. United Nations Population Division Database on Contraceptive Use. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. January. New York
Drug access	95%		[40th of 163]
Source: OECD Health Data 2005
Hospital beds	5.5 per 1,000 people		[17th of 29]
Source: WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people	7.1 per 1,000 people		[15th of 149]
Source: OECD
Infant mortality rate	7.18		[143rd of 179]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Life expectancy at birth > Male	75.34 years		[46th of 226]
Source: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Life expectancy at birth > Total population	78.64 years		[40th of 225]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Maternal mortality	20 per 100,000		[104th of 136]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Obesity	3.2%		[28th of 29]
Source: UNICEF (United Nations Children?s Fund). 2002. Official Summary: The State of the World's Children 2002. New York: Oxford University Press.
Physicians > per 1,000 people	1.6 per 1,000 people		[40th of 148]
Source: OECD Health Data 2005
Plastic surgery procedures	9,560		[15th of 34]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Probability of not reaching 40	4%		[107th of 111]
Source: International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Spending > Per person	470		[32nd of 133]
Source: UN 2001 via backone.pdf
Suicide rate > Females	6.1 per 100,000 people		[30th of 80]
Source: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Suicide rate > Gender ratio	2.1 per 100,000 people		[66th 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	12.8 per 100,000 people		[45th 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
Water availability	1,491 cubic meters		[136th of 169]
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

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