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Interesting health facts |
- Most Zambians don’t live to see their 40th birthday.
- On the probability of not reaching 40 graph, the top 34 countries are all African.
- In Botswana, more than one in three adults aged 15-49 are infected with HIV/AIDS.
- The average woman in New Zealand doesn’t give birth until she is nearly 30 years old.
- Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.
- 22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.
- In Ethiopia, nine out of ten births occur without skilled health staff present.
- The United States tops the world in plastic surgery procedures. Next comes Mexico.
- Sick people is Switzerland stay in hospital for longer than the people of any other nation – almost 10 days, on average. Switzerland also has the world’s highest number of hospital beds per capita.
- Only 4% of married women in Chad are using contraceptives.
- More than half of all doctors in Finland are female.
- One in three Italian babies is born by cesarean section.
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