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Access to sanitation	86%		[60th of 129]
Birth rate, crude > per 1,000 people	15.1 per 1,000 people		[124th of 195]
Source: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Drug access	95%		[19th of 163]
Source: World Development Indicators database
HIV AIDS > Adult prevalence rate	0.1%		[111st of 136]
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	3.07 per 1,000 people		[51st of 149]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Infant mortality rate	15.57		[105th of 179]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Life expectancy at birth > Male	70.28 years		[108th of 226]
Source: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Life expectancy at birth > Total population	73.75 years		[94th of 225]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Malaria cases > per 100,000	1		[91st of 94]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Maternal mortality	21 per 100,000		[102nd of 136]
Source: UNHDR
Physicians > per 1,000 people	1.06 per 1,000 people		[14th 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.
Probability of not reaching 40	5.4%		[96th of 111]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Spending > Per person	120		[66th of 133]
Source: UN 2001 via backone.pdf
Suicide rate > Females	4.1 per 100,000 people		[43rd of 80]
Source: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Suicide rate > Gender ratio	4.8 per 100,000 people		[16th 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	19.8 per 100,000 people		[31st 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	13.3 per 100,000 people		[26th 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
Tobacco > Cigarette consumption	1,284		[48th of 106]
Source: WHO, World Health Statistics Annual, 1994, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1994
Tobacco > Total adult smokers	23.9		[78th of 121]
Source: World Health Organization
Water availability	1,904 cubic meters		[122nd of 169]
Source: World Health Organization2005

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