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HEALTH SITUATION IN BANGLADESH

Indicator

Latest available data

Year

Source

Remarks
Health Resources        
Facilities        
Number of hospital beds

37,131

19a6

1

 Public and private
Population per hospital bed

3,307

1996

1

 Computed value
Hospital beds per 10,000 population

3.02

1996

1

 
Number of thana health complexes

379

1996

1

  
Human resources        
Number of physicians

29,981

1996

1

  
Population per physician

4,096

1996

1

  
Physicians per 10,000 population

2.44

1996

1

 
Number of nurses

13,830

1996

1

  
Budgetary resources        
Government health expenditure as percentage of total expenditure

7.54

1995/96

1

  
Per capita government health expenditure

142.72

1996/97

1

In takas
Total national health expenditure as % of GNP

3.04

1993/94

1

  
National health expenditure devoted to local health care (%)

53.49

1994/95

1

  
Essential drugs available in a sample of remote facilities (%)

8

1997

1

  
Amount of international aid for health received as a % of total government health expenditure

40

 

1

 Approximate
Health Services        
Pregnant women attended by trained personnel during pregnancy (%)

39.4

1996-97

1

  
Deliveries attended by trained personnel (%)

14.0

1996-97

1

  
Infants attended by trained personnel (%)

63.0

1996-97

1

  
Women of childbearing age using family planning (%)

46.3

1996-97

1

  
Eligible population (i.e. infants reaching their first birthday) that has been fully ihmunized according to national immunization policies

54

1995

1

  
Infants reaching their first birthday that have been fully immunized against diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough (%)

91

1995

1

  
Infants reaching their first birthday that have been fully immunized against poliomyelitis (%)

91

1995

1

  
Infants reaching their first birthday that have been fully immunized against measles (%)

96

1995

1

  
Infants reaching their first birthday that have been fully immunized against tuberculosis (%)

100

1995

1

  
Women that have been immunized with tetanus toxoid (TT) during pregnancy (%)

87

1995

1

  
Health Status        
Life expectancy at birth (years): Total
Male
Female

59.5
58.4
58.1

1996-97
1995
1995

1
1
1

  
Infant mortality rate
(per 1000 live births)

77

1996

1

  
Under-five mortality rate
(per 1000 live births)

112

1996

1

  
Maternal mortality ratio
(per 1000 live births)

3.9

1996

1

  

a Based on total surface area of 147,570 square kilometers (Source: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, 1994 Statistical Yearbook of Bangladesh)

Sources: 1. Bangladesh, Country report on the third evaluation of the implementation of HFA strategy, 1997

  1. Bangladesh, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, Health and Demographic Survey: Summary Findings, 1994 and 1995,

Dhaka, April 1996
Reference: World Health Organization. Health Situation in the South-East Asia Region 1994-1997. New Delhi: WHO-SEARO; 1999.

Source: World Health Organization. Health Situation in the South-East Asia Region 1994-1997
 
 
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