Connecting for health Burkina Faso Tunisia Country statistics Morocco Libyan Arab Algeria Jamahiriya Egypt WHO region: Africa Cape Verde Mauritania Mali Niger Total population: 13,002,000 Sudan Eritrea Chad Senegal Djibouti GDP per capita (Intl $, 2002): 885 Gambia Nigeria Somalia Guinea-Bisseau Central African Ethiopia Life expectancy at birth m/f (years): 44.0/46.0 Guinea Republic Sierra Leone Benin Healthy life expectancy at birth m/f (years, 2002): 34.9/36.3 Liberia Togo Kenya Uganda Burkina Faso Ghana Democratic Republic of Côte d’Ivoire Rwanda Child mortality m/f (per 1000): 214/200 SaoTome & Principe the Cong o Tanzania Burundi Seychelles Cameroon Congo Adult mortality m/f (per 1000): 533/462 Equitorial Guinea Malawi Comoros Gabon Angola Zambia Mozambique Total health expenditure per capita (Intl $, 2002): 38 Namibia Mauritius Total health expenditure as % of GDP (2002): 4.3 Botswana Reunion Madagascar Figures are for 2003 unless indicated. Zimbabwe South Africa Swaziland Source: The world health report 2005. Geneva, WHO, 2005. Lesotho Causes of death, African Region Mortality stratum Stratum D D: High child, high adult Countries in regional mortality stratum Injuries 7% Algeria, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Noncommunicable Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, conditions 23% Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Communicable diseases Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Togo. (including maternal causes) 45%
HIV, TB, malaria 25%
Source: The world health report 2004. Geneva, WHO, 2004.
Selected demographic indicators Selected country expenditure (% GDP)
GDP: 3 203 346 000 USD 100 10 Urban Private 75 Rural % 7.5 Public Total GDP % Total 50 5
25 2.5 Not available Not available
0 0 Population Access to Access to Adult Population Health ICT Education impr. water sanitation literacy living on <1 $ a day Source: World health statistics 2005. Geneva, WHO, 2005. Source: World development indicators 2005. Washington, DC, World Bank, 2005.
Country ICT trends ICT diffusion index (per 1,000 people) Calculated as average of scores for connectivity, access and policy
Mobile phones 50 1.00 Telephone mainlines 40 Telephone mainlines in largest city 0.75 30 Telephone mainlines, waiting list 0.50 20 Personal computers 0.25 10 Not available Internet hosts 0.00 0 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Diffusion Connectivity Access Policy
Source: World development indicators 2005. Washington, DC, World Bank, 2005. Source: The digital divide: ICT development indices 2004. Geneva, UNCTAD handbook of statistics 2004. Geneva, UNCTAD, 2004. UNCTAD, 2004.
Country ICT access indicators Internet users per 1000 inhabitants 2002 (1) 2 Adult literacy rate 2005 (2) 12.8 Cost of 3-minute fixed-line phone call (US$) 2002 (3) 0.102 GDP per capita, PPP (current international $) 2002 (4) 1110
Source: 1) UNCTAD handbook of statistics 2004. Geneva, UNCTAD, 2004. 2) World health statistics 2005. Geneva, WHO, 2005. 3) UNCTAD handbook of statistics 2004. Geneva, UNCTAD, 2004. 4) World development indicators 2005. Washington, DC, World Bank, 2005. See explanatory notes for sources and methods. (…) data not available.
World Health Organization: G. Kernen, J. Dzenowagis