Back to : Social Welfare Statistics

Selected Tables:

Health

Selected Indicators 

1995

1997

1999

2001

2003

% population having health problem during the last month *) 

25.38 *)

24.41

24.70

25.49

24.41

% birth delivery assisted by doctor/midwife/other paramedic 

46.13

53.87

63.00

64.24

67.91

% infants immunized 

77.34

91.01

89.91

n.a

n.a

Length (months) of breast-feed of Children aged 2-4 years 

21.71

20.78

21.25

n.a

19.89

Without supplementary food 

3.89

4.04

3.54

n.a

4.14

With supplementary food 

17.82

16.74

17.71

n.a

15.75

Percentage of Population who used traditional medicine 

27.57

n.a

15.04

30.24

30.67


*) There are some changes in definitions and questionaire contents, so that the 1995 figures are not comparable with the previous ones.