Connecting for health Saint Vincent and the Country statistics

Canada WHO region: Americas

Turks & Caicos Is Total population: 120,000 Haiti USA Bermuda Puerto Rico GDP per capita (Intl $, 2002): 5,723 Mexico US/UK Virgin Is Bahamas Antigua & Barbuda, Anguilla, Cayman Is Life expectancy at birth m/f (years): 68.0/72.0 Cuba Montserrat, Saint Kitts & Nevis Belize Guadeloupe Guatemala Healthy life expectancy at birth m/f (years, 2002): 59.9/62.2 El Salvador Jamaica / Nicaragua Venezuela Saint Vincent & the Grenadines Child mortality m/f (per 1000): 25/20 Colombia Costa Rica Trinidad & Tobago Panama Ecuador Guyana Suriname Adult mortality m/f (per 1000): 233/192 Brazil French Guiana Peru Total health expenditure per capita (Intl $, 2002): 340 Bolivia Paraguay Total health expenditure as % of GDP (2002): 5.9 Argentina Chile Uruguay Figures are for 2003 unless indicated.

Falklands/Malvinos Source: The world health report 2005. Geneva, WHO, 2005. Causes of death, Region of the Americas Mortality stratum Stratum B B: Low child, low adult Countries in regional mortality stratum Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Injuries 12% Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Communicable diseases Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and (including maternal causes)

15% Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of). Noncommunicable conditions 70% HIV, TB, malaria 3%

Source: The world health report 2004. Geneva, WHO, 2004.

Selected demographic indicators Selected country expenditure (% GDP)

100 10 Urban GDP: 361 111 100 USD Private 75 Rural % 7.5 Public Total GDP % Total 50 5

25 Not available Not available 2.5 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 400 1.00 Telephone mainlines 300 Telephone mainlines in largest city 0.75 Not available

200 Telephone mainlines, waiting list 0.50 Personal computers 100 0.25 Internet hosts 0 0.00 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) 60 Adult literacy rate 2005 (2) … Cost of 3-minute fixed-line phone call (US$) 2002 (3) … GDP per capita, PPP (current international $) 2002 (4) 5825

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