Table I.

Health indicators in the Middle East and Central Asian region

Country	Population (million)	GDP/capita US$	Immunization		Health/capita US$	Health/GDP [%]	Life expectancy	Healthy life expectancy	Adult mortality/1000	Under 5 mortality/1000	Physicians/1000	Drug consumption/capita
			DPT	Measles
Afghanistan	29.8	486	83	76	51	10.5	42	38	479	257	0.2	8.4
Azerbaijan	8.8	4,889	73	67	285	5.8	68	59	182	36	3.79	17.0
Bahrain	0.8	25,744	98	99	1108	4.3	75	68	103	12	2.97	143.8
Egypt	83.0	2,270	97	95	113	5.0	69	60	187	23	2.43	30.1
Iran	72.9	4,541	99	99	269	5.9	72	61	124	32	0.89	39.1
Iraq	31.5	2,090	65	69	98	4.7	63	54	285	45	0.53	19.0
Jordan	6.0	4,182	98	95	336	8.0	72	63	149	20	2.56	122.5
Kazakhstan	15.9	7,252	98	99	331	4.6	64	56	310	30	3.88	26.5
Kuwait	2.8	52,866	98	97	1416	2.7	78	69	61	11	1.85	118.9
Kyrgyz	5.3	864	95	99	57	6.6	66	57	264	38	2.3	27.4
Lebanon	4.2	8,221	74	53	663	8.1	72	62	160	13	3.25	261.9
Oman	2.8	16,469	98	97	497	3.0	74	65	129	12	1.84	42.9
Pakistan	169.7	955	85	80	23	2.4	63	55	204	89	0.78	2.5
Qatar	1.4	70,224	99	99	1715	2.4	78	67	72	8	2.76	166.4
Saudi Arabia	25.4	14,794	98	98	714	4.8	72	62	154	21	1.62	66.9
Syria	21.1	2,473	80	81	72	2.9	72	63	150	18	0.53	35.5
Tajikistan	7.0	711	93	89	38	5.3	67	57	173	64	2.01	5.3
Tunisia	10.4	3,804	99	98	240	6.3	75	66	103	21	1.34	54.8
Turkey	74.8	8,217	96	97	571	6.9	74	68	108	22	1.45	119.0
Turkmenistan	5.1	3,911	96	99	77	2.0	63	55	298	48	2.44	46.3
UAE	4.6	50,055	92	92	1520	3.0	78	68	73	8	1.55	300.0
Uzbekistan	27.8	1,155	98	95	62	5.4	68	59	181	38	2.62	11.5
Yemen	23.6	1,117	66	58	64	5.7	64	54	217	69	0.33	5.3

GDP – gross domestic product, DPT – diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus