The State of the World's Children 1998

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Table 7

Women

	Under-5 mortality rank	Life expectancy of females as a % of males 1996	Adult literacy rate females as a % of males 1995	Enrolment ratios females as a % of males 1990-95		Contraceptive prevelance (%)1990-97	% of pregnant women immunized against tetanus 1995-96	% of births attended by trained health personnel 1990-96	Maternal mortaility rate 1990
	Under-5 mortality rank	Life expectancy of females as a % of males 1996	Adult literacy rate females as a % of males 1995	primary school	secondary school	Contraceptive prevelance (%)1990-97	% of pregnant women immunized against tetanus 1995-96	% of births attended by trained health personnel 1990-96	Maternal mortaility rate 1990
Afghanistan	4	102	32	51	34	2x	37	9x	1700
Albania	88	109	-	101	103	-	-	99x	65
Algeria	92	104	66	88	88	57	34	77	160
Andorra	175	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Angola	2	107	52x	92	-	1x	28	15x	1500
Antigua and Barbuda	127	92	-	-	-	53x	-	90x	-
Argentina	117	110	100	99	107	74x	63	97	100
Armenia	108	110	99	107	113	-	-	-	50
Australia	175	108	-	99	104	76x	-	100	9
Austria	175	110	-	100	95	71x	-	100	10
Azerbaijan	85	112	99	96	98	-	-	-	22
Bahamas	123	110	99	103	100	62x	75x	100x	100
Bahrain	127	106	89	103	103	54x	54	97	60
Bangladesh	44	100	53	87	52	49	72	14	850
Barbados	152	107	99	101	89x	55x	100	98x	43
Belarus	139	117	99	97	105	50	-	100x	37
Belgium	164	108	-	101	101	79	-	100x	10
Belize	85	104	100x	96	113	47	88	77	-
Benin	31	110	53	50	41	9x	75	45x	990
Bhutan	36	106	50	61x	29x	19	70	15	1600
Bolivia	51	107	84	91	85	45	52	47	650
Bosnia and Herzegovina	143	109	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Botswana	80	106	74	101	107	33x	61	78x	250
Brazil	79	113	100	96x	116x	77	45	88	220
Brunei Darussalam	154	107	89	94	109	-	50	98	60
Bulgaria	136	110	99	95	106	76x	-	100x	27
Burkina Faso	23	104	30	65	50	8	27	42	930
Burundi	17	107	47	82	63	9x	33	19x	1300
Cambodia	19	106	66x	82	58	-	36	47x	900
Cameroon	51	106	69	90	69	16	12	64	550
Canada	164	108	-	98	100	73x	-	99x	6
Cape Verde	65	103	79	98	93	15x	4	30x	-
Central African Rep.	21	111	75	63x	35x	15	15	46	700
Chad	27	107	56	48	23	1x	50	15	1500
Chile	149	108	100	98	106	43x	-	98x	65
China	82	104	81	97	85	83	13	84	95
Colombia	104	107	100	102	119	72	57	85	100
Comoros	39	102	78	85	81	21	34	52	950
Congo	48	110	81	-	-	-	55	-	890
Congo, Dem. Rep.	12	106	78	74	45	8	20	-	870
Cook Islands	108	-	-	-	-	50	64	99	-
Costa Rica	146	107	100	98	109	75	90	93x	55
Côte d'Ivoire	25	106	60	76	52	11	22	45	810
Croatia	154	112	99	99	108	-	91	-	-
Cuba	159	105	99	99	113	70x	61x	90x	95
Cyprus	159	107	93x	100	102	-	57x	100x	5
Czech Rep.	164	109	-	100	104	69	-	-	15
Denmark	175	107	-	100	104	78x	-	100x	9
Djibouti	24	106	55	77	67	-	39	79x	570
Dominica	133	96	-	-	-	50x	-	96x	-
Dominican Rep.	74	106	100	101	138	64	96	96	110
Ecuador	88	107	96	98	104	57	25	64	150
Egypt	58	105	61	87	87	48	55	46	170
El Salvador	88	109	95	101	111	53	69	87	300
Equatorial Guinea	18	106	76	-	-	-	63	58x	820
Eritrea	41	106	-	80	68	8	23	21	1400
Estonia	145	117	100	97	98	70	-	-	41
Ethiopia	16	106	54	64	91	4	36	14x	1400
Fiji	121	107	95	99	102	32x	100	96x	90
Finland	189	110	-	100	118	80x	-	100	11
France	175	112	-	98	103	75	-	99	15
Gabon	28	108	72	-	-	-	4	80x	500
Gambia	49	107	47	71	52	12	92	44	1100
Georgia	113	112	99	99	93	-	-	-	33
Germany	175	110	-	101	99	75	-	99x	22
Ghana	47	105	71	84	64	20	9	44	740
Greece	161	107	97	100	97	-	-	97x	10
Grenada	104	-	-	-	-	54	80	81x	-
Guatemala	74	108	78	88	92	31	81	35	200
Guinea	11	102	44	49	33	2	43	31	1600
Guinea-Bissau	6	107	63	55x	44x	1x	43	27x	910
Guyana	56	110	99	98x	105x	0x	56	90x	-
Haiti	34	106	88	93	95	18	49	21	1000
Holy See	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Honduras	97	107	100	101	128	47	99	88	220
Hungary	152	114	100	100	105	73x	-	99x	30
Iceland	186	105	-	96	100	-	-	100x	0
India	46	100	58	81	64	41	78	34	570
Indonesia	67	105	87	97	84	55	75	36	650
Iran	96	101	76	93	82	73	50	77	120
Iraq	39	105	63	85	64	18x	65	54x	310
Ireland	164	107	-	100	105	-	-	-	10
Israel	161	104	96x	100	107	-	-	99x	7
Italy	164	108	99	101	101	78x	-	-	12
Jamaica	154	107	110	99	113	62	82	82x	120
Japan	175	108	-	100	101	59	-	100x	18
Jordan	117	106	85	101	104	35	41	87	150
Kazakstan	84	116	99	100	103	59	-	99	80
Kenya	55	108	81	99	82	33	21	45	650
Kiribati	61	92	-	-	-	28	41	72	-
Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	108	109	-	94x	-	-	95	100x	70
Korea, Rep. of	164	112	98	101	99	79	-	98	130
Kuwait	147	105	91	100	98	35x	21	99x	29
Kyrgyzstan	80	114	96	101	106	-	-	-	110
Lao People's Dem. Rep.	35	106	64	75	61	19	45	-	650
Latvia	133	117	100	95	106	-	64	-	40
Lebanon	88	104	95	96	111	55x	-	45x	300

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