Health Indicators
In 2006, life expectancy for males was 79 and for females 82 years.Infant mortality in 2002 was 5 per 1,000 live births, comparing favourably to most developed nations.
A systematic population analysis of deaths in the adult population (ages 15–59) and released in 2010 in The Lancet place Cyprus as the country with the lowest mortality in females and 14th lowest mortality in males.
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“To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)