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Access to sanitation	92%		[46th of 129]
Birth rate, crude > per 1,000 people	20.55 per 1,000 people		[92nd of 195]
Source: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Drug access	95%		[1st of 163]
Source: World Development Indicators database
HIV AIDS > Adult prevalence rate	1.7%		[46th of 136]
Source: WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva
HIV AIDS > Deaths	330		[87th of 102]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people	3.6 per 1,000 people		[41st of 149]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Life expectancy at birth > Female	76.39 years		[100th of 226]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Life expectancy at birth > Male	70.76 years		[102nd of 226]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Life expectancy at birth > Total population	73.48 years		[97th of 225]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Life expectancy at birth, total > years	69.71 years		[104th of 194]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Malaria cases > per 100,000	2,954		[26th of 94]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Maternal mortality	110 per 100,000		[60th of 136]
Source: UNHDR
Physicians > per 1,000 people	0.45 per 1,000 people		[76th 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	7.4%		[84th of 111]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Suicide rate > Females	7.9 per 100,000 people		[26th of 80]
Source: UN 2001 via backone.pdf
Suicide rate > Gender ratio	2.3 per 100,000 people		[61st 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	18.2 per 100,000 people		[36th 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
Tobacco > Cigarette consumption	1,930		[25th of 106]
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
Total expenditure on health as % of GDP	8.6%		[33rd of 185]
Source: World Health Organization
Water availability	292,566 cubic meters		[5th of 169]
Source: World Health Organization

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