Statistics - North America

** Health **

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Latest Data (2007) Here

• Life expectancy (1990-95)
• Increase in life expectancy (1970-75 à 1990-95)
• Countries where women's life expectancy is at less than 50 years (1990-95)
• Child Mortality Rate (1970-75 à 1990-95)
• Current general frequency of women's genital organs mutilation in some countries
• Seropositivity among women & men (up to mid-1994)
• Percentage of the utilization of contraception among married women in age of procreating (1990)

1. Life expectancy (1990-95)
   • Canada: Women (81 years old); Men (74 years old)
   • USA: Women (79 years old); Men (73 years old)
     Sources: Wistat (Nations Unies)

2. Increase in Life expectancy (1970-75 à 1990-95)
   • Western Europe and other developed regions, including North America: 4 years (women); 4 years (men)
     Sources: Wistat (Nations Unies)

3. Countries where women life expectancy goes beyond 80 years old 1990-95
   • Canada: 81 years old
     Sources: United Nations

4. Child mortality rate (1970-75 to 1990-95)
   • Canada:
     16 deaths for 1000 successful births (1970-75);
     7 deaths for 1000 successful births (1990-1995)
   • United States:
     18 deaths for 1000 successful births (1970-75);
     8 deaths for 1000 successful births (1990-1995)
     Sources: Nations Unies

5. Current general frequency of female genital organs mutilation in some countries
   • Frequency estimated at 70 % or more : Nil
   • Frequency estimated at 50-60 % : Nil
   • Frequency estimated at à 20-30 % : Nil
   • Frequency estimated at 5-10 % : Nil
     Sources: Fran Hosken, (The Hosken Report) & Nahid Toubia

6. Seropositivity among men and women up to mid-1994
   
   • North America:
     Estimated number of seropositive adults : more than 1 million
     Total estimated number of AIDS cases : 450,000
     Estimated percentage of women among seropositives : 14-17 %
     
   • World
     Estimated number of seropositive adults : more than 16 millions
     Total estimated number of AIDS cases : 3 millions
     Estimated percentage of women among seropositives : 40 %
     Sources: WHO (The HIV/AIDS pandemic: 1994 overview)

7. Percentage of the utilization of contraception among married women in age of procreating (1990) All contraceptive methods included
   • CANADA: 73 %
   • USA: 74 %
     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