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4.5. Tunisia
Key Indicators at a glance 2000 2005 2010 2015 2016 2017
Antiretroviral therapy coverage (% of people
living with HIV)
0 19 24 28 31 31
Cause of death, by communicable diseases and
maternal, prenatal and nutrition conditions (% of
total)
12.4 .. 8.7 7.9 7.8 ..
Cause of death, by non-communicable diseases (%
of total)
79.5 .. 84.4 85.5 85.8 ..
Current health expenditure (% of GDP) 5.0 5.4 5.9 6.7 .. ..
Diabetes prevalence (% of population ages 20 to
79)
.. .. .. .. .. 8.5
Hospital beds (per 1,000 people) .. .. 2.1 .. .. ..
Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12-23
months)
97 98 98 98 98 98
Immunization, HepB3 (% of one-year-old
children)
94 97 98 98 98 98
Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12-23
months)
95 96 97 98 96 98
Incidence of HIV (% of uninfected population ages
15-49)
0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01
Incidence of tuberculosis (per 100,000 people) 26 26 28 38 38 ..
Life expectancy at birth, female (years) 75.8 76.7 77.1 77.6 77.8 ..
Life expectancy at birth, male (years) 70.8 71.9 72.7 73.5 73.7 ..
Maternal mortality ratio (modeled estimate, per
100,000 live births)
84 74 67 62 .. ..
Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD
between exact ages 30 and 70 (%)
19.3 18.2 17.5 16.4 16.1 ..
Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) 26.3 19.6 14.9 12 11.6 11.2
Mortality rate, neonatal (per 1,000 live births) 18 13.2 9.9 8 7.7 7.5
Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000 live births) 31.7 23.1 17.4 14 13.5 13
Nurses and midwives (per 1,000 people) .. .. 2.24 2.653 2.642 ..
Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health
expenditure)
38.6 42.1 42.1 39.8 .. ..
Physicians (per 1,000 people) 0.8 0.9 1.2 1.3 .. ..
Pregnant women receiving prenatal care (%) 91.5 .. .. .. .. ..
Risk of catastrophic expenditure for surgical care
(% of people at risk)
.. 39.2 26.6 15 12.3 12.8
Risk of impoverishing expenditure for surgical
care (% of people at risk)
.. 12.7 6.2 3.2 2.7 2.6
Smoking prevalence, females (% of adults) 7.2 3.9 2.2 1.2 1.1 ..
Smoking prevalence, males (% of adults) 56.6 59.1 62.2 65.4 65.8 ..
Tuberculosis case detection rate (%, all forms) 80 80 80 80 80 ..
Tuberculosis treatment success rate (% of new
cases)
91 90 85 91 .. ..