The State of the World's Children 1998

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Table 7 (cont.)

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
Lesotho	32	105	77	112	148	23	10	40x	610
Liberia	5	107	41	55x	39x	6x	35	58x	560
Libya	70	106	72	100	100	-	45x	76x	220
Liechtenstein	164	-	100x	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lithuania	139	117	99	98	105	-	-	-	36
Luxembourg	164	108	-	107	100	-	-	99x	0
Madagascar	21	105	53	96	100	17	33	57	490
Malawi	8	100	58	90	67	22	56	55	560
Malaysia	149	106	88	101	110	48x	79x	94	80
Maldives	61	97	100	98	100	10	93	90	-
Mali	7	107	59	64	55	7	32	24	1200
Malta	154	107	101	97	89	-	-	-	0
Marshall Islands	54	-	-	-	-	27	15x	-	-
Mauritania	15	108	52	81	58	4	28	40	930
Mauritius	123	110	91	99	103	75	79	97	120
Mexico	102	109	95	96	102	53x	69	77	110
Micronesia, Fed. States of	116	95	-	-	-	-	44	90x	-
Moldova, Rep. of	102	113	101	99	104	-	-	-	60
Monaco	175	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Mongolia	67	105	87	106	140	-	-	99x	65
Morocco	64	106	54	74	74	50	100	40	610
Morocco	64	106	54	74	74	50	100	40	610
Mozambique	9	107	40	72	60	4x	61	25x	1500
Myanmar	25	105	88	96	100	17	79	57x	580
Namibia	60	104	95x	101	121	29	75	68	370
Nauru	104	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Nepal	42	98	34	68	50	29	11	9	1500
Netherlands	175	107	-	102	91	80	-	100x	12
New Zealand	164	107	-	98	103	70x	-	99x	25
Nicaragua	73	108	103	103	118	49	96	61	160
Niger	1	109	33	60	56	4	31	15	1200
Nigeria	14	106	70	79	85	6	36	31	1000
Niue	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Norway	175	108	-	100	97	76x	-	100x	6
Oman	139	106	65x	94	91	9x	98	87x	190
Pakistan	33	103	48	45	52	12	54	19	340
Palau	97	-	-	-	-	38x	55	90	-
Panama	133	106	99	96	108	58x	24	86	55
Papua New Guinea	44	102	78	85	65	4x	50	20x	930
Paraguay	100	107	97	97	105	50	69	66	160
Peru	72	108	87	96x	91x	64	51	56	280
Philippines	93	106	99	101	102x	40	47	53	280
Poland	147	113	99x	98	101	75x	-	99x	19
Portugal	164	110	95	97	117	66x	-	90x	15
Qatar	132	107	101	94	100	32x	-	97x	-
Romania	117	111	98	99	101	57	-	100x	130
Russian Federation	117	122	99	99	108	-	-	-	75
Rwanda	19	106	74	97	82	21	43	26	1300
Saint Kitts and Nevis	93	93	100x	-	-	41x	-	100x	-
Saint Lucia	127	93	-	-	-	47x	-	99x	-
Saint Vincent/Grenadines	123	92	-	-	-	58x	-	73x	-
Samoa	77	106	-	-	-	21	96	95x	35
San Marino	149	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sao Tome and Principe	57	92	58x	-	-	10x	49	86x	-
Saudi Arabia	108	106	69	95	82	-	60	82x	130
Senegal	36	104	53	75	52	13	34	46	1200
Seychelles	136	91	104x	-	-	-	100	99x	-
Sierra Leone	3	109	40	70	55	4x	65	25x	1800
Singapore	189	105	90	98x	103x	74x	-	100x	10
Slovakia	154	113	-	100	106	74	-	-	-
Slovenia	175	113	99x	100	102	-	-	-	13
Solomon Islands	113	107	-	87	67	25	63	87x	-
Somalia	10	106	39x	53x	56x	1x	28	2x	1600
South Africa	69	110	100	97	116	50x	26x	82	230
Spain	186	109	98	101	112	59x	-	96x	7
Sri Lanka	136	106	94	98	111	66	81	94	140
Sudan	42	106	60	79	79	8	44	69	660
Suriname	104	107	96	97x	116	-	99	91x	-
Swaziland	53	109	97	95	96	21x	65	55x	560
Sweden	189	107	-	100	101	78x	-	100x	7
Switzerland	186	109	-	102	96	71x	-	99x	6
Syria	100	108	65	90	82	36	78	67	180
Tajikistan	61	109	100	97	90	-	-	-	130
Tanzania	29	106	72	97	83	16	92	53	770
TFYR Macedonia	108	106	-	99	102	-	91x	-	-
Thailand	93	109	96	99	97	74	88	71x	200
Togo	38	106	55	66	35	12x	43	54x	640
Tonga	123	93	-	-	-	39	88	92	-
Trinidad and Tobago	143	107	98	100	105	53x	19x	98x	90
Tunisia	97	103	70	92	91	60	80	69x	170
Turkey	82	108	78	93	66	63	32	76	180
Turkmenistan	58	111	98x	-	-	-	-	-	55
Tuvalu	74	-	-	-	-	-	53	-	-
Uganda	30	105	68	80	57	15	55	38	1200
Ukraine	121	116	101	100	108	-	-	100x	50
United Arab Emirates	139	103	101	96	110	-	-	96x	26
United Kingdom	164	108	-	100	102	82	-	100x	9
United States	163	110	-	99	99	74x	-	99x	12
Uruguay	127	109	101	99	119	84	13x	96x	85
Uzbekistan	71	111	100	97	88	56	-	-	55
Vanuatu	77	106	84x	102	78	15	15	86x	280
Venezuela	115	107	98	103	141	49x	60	69x	120
Viet Nam	85	108	94	94x	93x	65	82	95x	160
Yemen	50	102	49x	40	24	7	55	16	1400
Yugoslavia, Fed. Rep.	127	107	98	104	103	-	-	-	-
Zambia	13	102	83	93	61	15	48	51	940
Zimbabwe	65	104	89	93	80	48	65	69	570

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