Health and Welfare

Argentina: Health and Welfare


Total fertility rate (children per woman, 2009)	2	.2
Under-5 mortality rate (per 1,000 live births, 2009)	15
HIV (% of persons aged 15–49, 2007)	0	.5
Physicians (per 1,000 head, 1998)	3	.01
Hospital beds (per 1,000 head, 2000)	4	.1
Health expenditure (2008): US $ per head (PPP)	1,062
Health expenditure (2008): % of GDP	7	.4
Health expenditure (2008): public (% of total)	71	.3
Access to water (% of persons, 2008)	97
Access to sanitation (% of persons, 2008)	90
Total carbon dioxide emissions (’000 metric tons, 2007)	183,577	.4
Carbon dioxide emissions per head (metric tons, 2007)	4	.6
Human Development Index (2010): ranking	46
Human Development Index (2010): value	0	.775

For sources and definitions, see explanatory note on p. vi.

Citation: Health and Welfare (Argentina), in Europa World online. London, Routledge. Retrieved 04 February 2012 from http://www.europaworld.com/pub/entry/ar.ss.15

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