Health and Education
In 2007 there was one hospital with 18 beds and 2 walk-in health clinics. The infant mortality rate was 19.67 deaths in every 1,000 live births in 2000. This was below the state and national average. In the school system there were 2 schools with 810 students in 2006. The literacy rate was 85.3% in 2000.
Mairipotaba had a rating of 0.761 on the latest United Nations Human Development Index, ranking it 51 out of 242 cities in the state of Goiás in 2000. For the complete list see Frigoletto
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