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Abortions	11,173		[15th of 19]
Age of women at first childbirth	29.9 years old		[1st of 17]
Source: UNHDR
Breast cancer incidence	28 per 100,000 females		[5th of 26]
Source: OECD
Daily smokers	25%		[19th of 30]
Source: World Health Organization
Death from cancer	327.3 deaths per 100,000 peopl		[8th of 16]
Source: OECD Health Data 2005
Drug access	95%		[25th of 163]
Source: OECD Health Data 2004
Heart disease deaths	127.3 per 100,000 people		[6th of 26]
Source: WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva
Hospital beds	6.2 per 1,000 people		[16th of 29]
Source: World Health Organization
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people	6.1 per 1,000 people		[13th of 149]
Source: OECD
Infant mortality rate	5.96		[152nd of 179]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Life expectancy at birth > Male	78.33 years		[12th of 226]
Source: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Life expectancy at birth > Total population	80.24 years		[17th of 225]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Maternal mortality	15 per 100,000		[107th of 136]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Obesity	20.9%		[7th 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	2.2 per 1,000 people		[35th of 148]
Source: OECD Health Data 2005
Spending > Per person	1,163		[22nd of 133]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Suicide rate > Females	5.4 per 100,000 people		[32nd of 80]
Source: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Suicide rate > Males	20.5 per 100,000 people		[28th 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
Teen birth rate	35		[11th of 40]
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
Teenage pregnancy	3,924 births		[15th of 26]
Source: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 1994 Revision, 1994

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