Health
- Fertility rate- 140th most fertile, at 1.85 per woman
- Birth rate – 157th most births, at 13.91 per 1000 people
- Infant mortality – 128th most deaths, at 1 per 1000 live births
- Birth rate – 157th most births, at 13.91 per 1000 people
- Death rate – 84th highest death rate, at 9.16 per 1000 people
- Life Expectancy – 47th highest, at 76.4 years
- Suicide Rate – 24th highest suicide rate, at 15.1 for males and 6.4 for females per 100,000 people
- HIV/AIDS rate – 108th most cases, at 0.30%
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Famous quotes containing the word health:
“It is not stressful circumstances, as such, that do harm to children. Rather, it is the quality of their interpersonal relationships and their transactions with the wider social and material environment that lead to behavioral, emotional, and physical health problems. If stress matters, it is in terms of how it influences the relationships that are important to the child.”
—Felton Earls (20th century)
“A little health now and again is the ailing persons best remedy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“He had had much experience of physicians, and said, the only way to keep your health is to eat what you dont want, drink what you dont like, and do what youd druther not.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)