Canada's life expectancy rose from 78.0 yrs in 1995 to 82.1 yrs in 2024.
Canada · Health
Longevity, mortality, health system capacity and risk factors.
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Canada's healthy life expectancy at birth rose from 68.5 yrs in 2000 to 69.8 yrs in 2021.
Canada's infant mortality fell from 5.8 ‰ in 1995 to 4.7 ‰ in 2024.
Canada's under-5 mortality rate fell from 6.9 ‰ in 1995 to 5.4 ‰ in 2024.
Canada's maternal mortality ratio rose from 8.0 /100k in 1994 to 12.0 /100k in 2023.
Canada's ncd mortality fell from 14.4 % in 2000 to 9.7 % in 2021.
Canada's suicide mortality rate fell from 12.5 /100k in 2000 to 9.4 /100k in 2021.
Canada's mortality caused by road traffic injury fell from 9.8 /100k in 2000 to 5.3 /100k in 2019.
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- Health spendingup +0.1 pts4th of 22
- Current health expenditure per capita (current US$)up +3.1 %9th of 22
- Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)up +0.1 pts14th of 22
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- Physiciansup +0.2 %21st of 63
- Nurses and midwivesup +10.3 %6th of 79
- Hospital bedsdown −1.2 %63rd of 113*
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- Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12–23 months)unchanged +0.0 pts84th of 192
- Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12–23 months)unchanged +0.0 pts86th of 192
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- Prevalence of HIV (ages 15–49)unchanged +0.0 pts1st of 152
- Incidence of tuberculosisunchanged +0.0 %42nd of 208
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- Safe drinking waterdown −0.0 pts41st of 148
- Safe sanitationdown −0.0 pts47th of 141