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Statistics on health, life expectancy, diseases and pregnancy in Costa Rica.

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Life Expectancy at Birth:

  • Total Population: 77.72 years

  • Male: 75.1 years

  • Female: 80.46 years (2011 est.)

Major Infectious Diseases:

  • food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea

  • vectorborne diseases: dengue fever (2009)

  • HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate: 0.3% (2009 est.)

Infant Mortality Rate:

  • total: 9.45 deaths/1,000 live births

  • male: 10.3 deaths/1,000 live births

  • female: 8.56 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.)

Fertility Rates

 

Children born per woman

Year

Fertility Rate

1.93

2011 (est.)

Fertility Rate

1.97

2006

Fertility Rate

1.97

2005

Fertility Rate

2.02

2004

Source: CIA World Factbook

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