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Life Expectancy and mortality

1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Graph Life expectancy at birth, female (years) 74.12 75.96 78.4 80.6 82
Graph Life expectancy at birth, total (years) 71.11 72.46 74.72 77.21 78.92
Graph Life expectancy at birth, male (years) 68.26 69.14 71.22 74 76
Graph Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) 110 100 85 70 60
Graph Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) 191 188 161 133 105
Graph Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) 27.3 18.8 10.4 6.8 5.2
Graph Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000 live births) 33 23 13 8 7.22

Birth and Death

1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Graph Contraceptive prevalence (% of women ages 15-49)          
Graph Fertility rate, total (births per woman) 3.81 2.25 1.74 1.83 1.55
Graph Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) 26.7 17.4 15.4 15 10.9
Graph Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) 7.8 7.3 7.1 7.3 7.5

Health care spending

1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Graph Health expenditure per capita, PPP (current international $       1851  
Graph Health expenditure, private (% of GDP)       2.3  
Graph Health expenditure, public (% of GDP)       6.75  
Graph Health expenditure, total (% of GDP)       9.04