NationMaster - Surinamese Health statistics

Access to sanitation	92%	[46th of 129]
Birth rate, crude > per 1,000 people	20.55 per 1,000 people	[92nd of 195]
Definition: Health > Birth rate, crude > per 1,000 people
Drug access	95%	[1st of 163]
Definition: Health > Drug access
HIV AIDS > Adult prevalence rate	1.7%	[46th of 136]
Definition: Health > HIV AIDS > Adult prevalence rate
HIV AIDS > Deaths	330	[87th of 102]
Definition: Health > HIV AIDS > Deaths
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people	3.6 per 1,000 people	[41st of 149]
Definition: Health > Hospital beds > per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth > Female	76.39 years	[100th of 226]
Definition: Health > Life expectancy at birth > Female
Life expectancy at birth > Male	70.76 years	[102nd of 226]
Definition: Health > Life expectancy at birth > Male
Life expectancy at birth > Total population	73.48 years	[97th of 225]
Definition: Health > Life expectancy at birth > Total population
Life expectancy at birth, total > years	69.71 years	[104th of 194]
Definition: Health > Life expectancy at birth, total > years
Malaria cases > per 100,000	2,954	[26th of 94]
Definition: Health > Malaria cases > per 100,000
Maternal mortality	110 per 100,000	[60th of 136]
Definition: Health > Maternal mortality
Physicians > per 1,000 people	0.45 per 1,000 people	[76th of 148]
Definition: Health > Physicians > per 1,000 people
Probability of not reaching 40	7.4%	[84th of 111]
Definition: Health > Probability of not reaching 40
Suicide rate > Females	7.9 per 100,000 people	[26th of 80]
Definition: Health > Suicide rate > Females
Suicide rate > Gender ratio	2.3 per 100,000 people	[61st of 76]
Definition: Health > Suicide rate > Gender ratio
Suicide rate > Males	18.2 per 100,000 people	[36th of 80]
Definition: Health > Suicide rate > Males
Tobacco > Cigarette consumption	1,930	[25th of 106]
Definition: Health > Tobacco > Cigarette consumption
Total expenditure on health as % of GDP	8.6%	[33rd of 185]
Definition: Health > Total expenditure on health as % of GDP
Water availability	292,566 cubic meters	[5th of 169]
Definition: Health > Water availability

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, December 2003; World Development Indicators database; WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; UNHDR; UNICEF (United Nations Children?s Fund). 2002. Official Summary: The State of the World's Children 2002. New York: Oxford University Press.; UN 2001 via backone.pdf; 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; World Health Organization; World Health Organization;

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Suriname, Republic of Suriname, Republiek Suriname, surinam

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