Gambia Health Stats
Definitions
- Births and maternity > Average age of mother at childbirth: Average age of mother at first childbirth.
- Births and maternity > Future births: Mid-range estimate for country's population increase due to births from five years prior to the given year. For example, from 2095 to 2100, India's population is expected to rise by 16,181 people due to births. Estimates are from the UN Population Division.
- Births and maternity > Infant mortality rate: How many infants, out of 1000, who will die before attaining one year of age.
- Births and maternity > Total fertility rate: Total fertility rate.
- Deaths > Percent deaths registered: Civil registration coverage of deaths (%).
- Diseases > Cancer > Cancer death rate (per 100,000 population): The number of people that will die from cancer out of 100,000 people the same age. The number is not an accurate telling of the country's cancer rate, but rather how fatal cancer is in each country.
- Diseases > Overweight > Average Body Mass Index (BMI): Countries compared by average BMI (combining male and female population), according to data gathered by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The BMI (Body Mass Index) measures how appropiate is the weight of an individual compared to their height. The calculation is made measuring your weight in kilograms and dividing it twice by your height measured in metres. A high BMI (25 or more) is usually associated with a risk of suffering diverse health problems.
- Human height > Average female height: Average female height.
- Human height > Average male height: Average male height.
- Human height > Stature ratio (male to female ratio): Ratio of average height of males to average height of females.
- Hunger and malnutrition > Global Hunger Index: Indicates how grave hunger issues are in each country on a scale of index values from 0 (no hunger) to 100. Values above 30 are designated as “extremely alarming”, 20-30 as "alarming", 10-20 as “serious” and 5-10 as “moderate”. The index is a composite of the following three indicators: the proportion of the undernourished people as a percentage of the population; the prevalence of underweight children under the age of five years; and the mortality rate of children under the age of five years. The index is calculated in cooperation of several organizations, including the IFPRI, Welthungerhilfe and Concern.
- Hunger and malnutrition > Undernourished population: Number of people in the country who subsist on less than the required nutritional amounts per day.
- Hunger and malnutrition > Undernourished population > Percentage: Percentage of population that subsists on less than the required nutritional amounts per day.
- Life expectancy > Men: Life expectancy for men.
- Life expectancy > Women: Life expectancy for women.
SOURCES: United Nations Population Division. Source tables; United Nations Population Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Population Division. Source tables; World Health Organization. Source tables; World Health Organization. Source tables; "Where are you on the global fat scale?". BBC. July 12, 2012. Retrieved 2013-12-16. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-12-439.pdf. Walpole et al., BMC Public Health 2012, 12:4; Wikipedia: Human height (Average height around the world); Welthungerhilfe, IFPRI, and Concern Worldwide. 2013. 2013 Global Hunger Index . Issue Brief No. 79. Washington, DC. p. 1.; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division; British Broadcasting Corporation 2014
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Gambia Health Profiles (Subcategories)
| Births and maternity 16 | Human height 3 |
| Deaths 6 | Hunger and malnutrition 5 |
| Diseases 19 | Life expectancy 3 |
- Gambia has ranked in the top 2 for births and maternity > crude birth rate since 1973.
- Gambia has ranked in the top 9 for births and maternity > number of births since 1973.
- Gambia has ranked in the top 12 for births and maternity > average age of mother at childbirth since 1973.
- Gambia has ranked in the top 25 for births and maternity > total fertility rate since 2000.
- Gambia has ranked in the top 15 for births and maternity > teenage birth rate since 1993.
- Gambia has ranked in the top 10 for births and maternity > antenatal care > mothers getting 1+ visit during pregnancy since 2006.
- Gambia has ranked in the top 27 for hunger and malnutrition > children > small children underweight since 1996.
- Gambia has ranked in the top 23 for diseases > HIV AIDS > percent of 15-24 year olds with comprehensive correct knowledge of AIDS > women since 2000.
- Gambia has ranked in the top 32 for births and maternity > maternal death rate since 1990.
- Gambia has ranked in the top 50 for hunger and malnutrition > global hunger index since 1990.