Statistics - Europe

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  1. Life expectancy (1990-95)
    • Eastern Europe: Women (75 years old); Men (67 years old)
    • Western Europe: Women (78 years old); Men (73 years old)
      Sources: Wistat (Nations Unies)

  2. Increase in Life expectancy (1970-75 à 1990-95)
    • Eastern Europe: 2 years (women); 0 years (men)
    • Western Europe: 4 years (women); 4 years (men)
      Sources: Wistat (Nations Unies)

  3. Countries where women life expectancy goes beyond 80 years old 1990-95
    • Finland (80 years old)
    • France (81 years old)
    • Greece (80 years old)
    • Island (81 years old)
    • Italy (80 years old)
    • Netherlands (81 years old)
    • Norway (80 years old)
    • Sweden (81 years old)
    • Switzerland (81 years old) 
      Sources: United Nations

  4. Child mortality rate (1970-75 to 1990-95)
      36 deaths for 1000 successful births (1970-75);
      18 deaths for 1000 successful births (1990-1995)
    • Western Europe:
      20 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
    • Eastern Europe and Western Asia:
      Estimated number of seropositive adults : more than 50,000
      Total estimated number of AIDS cases : more than 7,000
      Estimated percentage of women among seropositives : 14-17 %
    • Western Europe:
      Estimated number of seropositive adults : more than 500,000
      Total estimated number of AIDS cases : more than 150,000
      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
    • ALBANIA: ...
    • AUSTRIA: 71
    • BELARUS: 23
    • BELGIUM: 79
    • BOSNIA: ...
    • BULGARIA: 76
    • CROATIA: ...
    • CZECK REPUBLIC: 78
    • DENMARK: 78
    • ESTONIA: ...
    • FINLAND: 80
    • FRANCE: 81
    • GERMANY: 75
    • GREECE: ...
    • HUNGARIA: 73
    • IRELAND: ...
    • ISLAND: ...
    • ITALY: 78
    • LATVIA: ...
    • LIECHTENSTEIN: ...
    • LITHUANIA: ...
    • LUXEMBURG: ...
    • MALTA: ...
    • MOLDOVA: 22
    • MONACO: ...
    • NETHERLANDS: 76
    • NORWAY: 76
    • POLAND: 75
    • PORTUGAL: 66
    • ROMANIA: 58
    • RUSSIA: 32
    • SAN MARINO: ...
    • SLOVAKIA: 74
    • SLOVENIA: ...
    • SPAIN: 59
    • SWEDEN: 78
    • SWITZERLAND: 71
    • UKRANIA: 23
    • UNITED KINGDOM: 81
    • YUGOSLAVIA: ...
      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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