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Ecuador
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Life Expectancy and mortality

1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Graph Life expectancy at birth, female (years) 54.74 59.58 65.24 68.4 71.08
Graph Life expectancy at birth, total (years) 53.37 58.05 63.26 66.9 69.59
Graph Life expectancy at birth, male (years) 52.08 56.6 61.38 65.48 68.18
Graph Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) 247.87 207.77 176.45 141 123
Graph Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) 311.57 258.33 228.87 182.66 185
Graph Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) 123 99.8 73.6 45.2 27.6
Graph Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000 live births) 180 140 101   34.26

Birth and Death

1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Graph Contraceptive prevalence (% of women ages 15-49)          
Graph Fertility rate, total (births per woman) 6.7 6.2 4.98 3.71 3.02
Graph Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) 44.34 41.48 36.16 29.34 24.1
Graph Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) 15.56 12.14 8.78 6.48 5.88

Health care spending

1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Graph Health expenditure per capita, PPP (current international $       121  
Graph Health expenditure, private (% of GDP)       2.8  
Graph Health expenditure, public (% of GDP)       1.53  
Graph Health expenditure, total (% of GDP)       4.33