Assessment of human resources for health using cross-national comparison of facility surveys in six countries

Table 1 Selected demographic and health indicators by country (around 2004)

	Income category*	Population (millions)	Life expectancy at birth (years)	Infant mortality rate** (‰)
Chad	Low	9.7	44.0	124
Côte d'Ivoire	Low	18.2	46.2	118
Jamaica	Lower-middle	2.7	70.9	17
Mozambique	Low	19.8	41.8	100
Sri Lanka	Lower-middle	19.6	74.7	12
Zimbabwe	Low	13.0	37.3	81

Sources: UNESCO Institute of Statistics Data Centre; World Bank World Development Indicators database, April 2007.
* Income category as classified by the World Bank according to 2006 Gross National Income (GNI) per capita.
** Infant mortality rate = Number of newborns dying under a year of age per thousand live births.

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