Statistics - Africa
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Health **
- Life expectancy (1990-95)
- North Africa: Women (66 years old); Men (63 Years old )
- Sub-Saharan Africa: Women (54 years old); Men (51 years old)
Sources: Wistat (United Nations)
- Increase in life expectancy (1970-75 à 1990-95)
- North Africa: women: 11 (1970-75); Men: 11 (1990-1995)
- Sub-Saharan Africa: women: 7 (1970-75); men: 7 (1990-1995)
Sources: Wistat (United Nations)
- Countries where women's life expectancy is at less than 50 years
(1990-95)
- ANGOLA: 48
- BENIN: 48
- CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: 49
- CHAD: 49
- ETHIOPIA: 49
- GAMBIA: 47
- GUINEA: 45
- GUINEA-BISSAU: 45
- MALAWI: 45
- MALI: 48
- MOZAMBIQUE: 48
- NIGER: 48
- RWANDA: 48
- SIERRA LEONE: 45
- SOMALIA: 49
- UGANDA: 43
- ZAMBIA: 45
Sources: United Nations
- Child Mortality Rate (1970-75 à 1990-95)
- North Africa:
125 deaths for 1000 successful births (1970-75);
60 deaths for 1000 successful births (1990-1995)
- Sub-Saharan Africa:
130 deaths for 1000 successful births (1970-75);
95 deaths for 1000 successful births (1990-1995)
Sources: United Nations
- Current general frequency of women's genital organs mutilation in
some countries
- Frequency estimated at 70 % ore more :
Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Erithrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Somalia,
Sudan
- Frequency estimated at 50-60 % :
Benin, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia,
Nigeria, Togo
- Frequency estimated at 20-30 % :
Ghana, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal
- Frequency estimated at 5-10 % :
Tanzania, Uganda, Zaïre
Sources: Fran Hosken, (The Hosken Report) & Nahid Toubia
- Seropositivity among women & men (up to mid-1994)
- Sub-Saharan Africa:
Estimated numner of seropositive adults :more than 10 millions
Estimated total number of AIDS cases : 2 millions
Estimated percentage of women among seropositives : 52-55 %
- World
Estimated numner of seropositive adults : more then 16 millions
Estimated total number of AIDS cases : 3 millions
Estimated total number of AIDS cases: 40 %
Sources:World Health Organization (The HIV/AIDS pandemic:
1994 overview)
- Percentage of the utilization of contraception among married
women in age of procreating (1990) All contraceptive methods included
- ALGERIA: 51 %
- ANGOLA: ..
- BENIN: 9 %
- BOTSWANA: 33 %
- BURKINA FASO: 8 %
- BURUNDI: 9 %
- CAMEROON: 16 %
- CAPE-VERDE: ..
- CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: ..
- CHAD: ..
- COMOROS: ..
- CONGO: ..
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE: 3 %
- DJIBOUTI: ..
- EGYPT: 45 %
- EQUATORIAL GUINEA: ..
- ERITHREA: ..
- ETHIOPIA: 4 %
- GABON: ..
- GAMBIA: 1 %
- GHANA: 13 %
- GUINEA: ..
- GUINEA-BISSAU: 1 %
- KENYA: 33 %
- LESOTHO: 23 %
- LIBERIA: 6 %
- LIBYA: ..
- MADAGASCAR: 17 %
- MALAWI: 13 %
- MALI: 5 %
- MAURICE: 75 %
- MAURITANIA: 3 %
- MOROCCO: 42 %
- MOZAMBIQUE: 4 %
- NAMIBIA: 29 %
- NIGER: 4 %
- NIGERIA: 6 %
- REUNION: 67 %
- RWANDA:
- SAO TOME & PRINCIPE: ..
- SENEGAL: 7 %
- SEYCHELLES: ..
- SIERRA LEONE: 4 %
- SOMALIA: 1 %
- SOUTH AFRICA: 50 %
- SUDAN: 9 %
- SWAZILAND: 20 %
- TANZANIA: 10 %
- TOGO: 12 %
- TUNISIA: 50 %
- UGANDA: 5 %
- WESTERN SAHARA: ..
- ZAÏRE: ..
- ZAMBIA: 15 %
- ZIMBABWE: 43 %
Sources: United Nations
The statistics used here are from
the United Nations, The World' Women 1995 - Trends and Statistics (United
Nations publications, Sales No. E.95XII.2 (In French, F.95. XII.2) and are
quoted with permission. Further information on United Nations gender statistics
may be found at the United Nations Statistics Division's Internet home page
http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd
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