Faeroe Islands Health Stats
Definitions
- Births and maternity > Abortion > Legal abortions total: Legally induced abortions by urban/rural residence of woman.
- Births and maternity > Teenage birth rate: Percentage of females aged 15-19 who give birth, out of all females the same age in the country.
- Deaths > Deaths of infants: An infant death is the death from any cause of a live-born child under one year of age.
- Life expectancy at birth, female > Years: Life expectancy at birth, female (years). Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.
- Life expectancy at birth, male > Years: Life expectancy at birth, male (years). Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.
- Life expectancy at birth, total > Years: Life expectancy at birth, total (years). Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.
SOURCES: United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.
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Faeroe Islands Health Profiles (Subcategories)
| Births and maternity 21 | Deaths 18 |
- Faeroe Islands ranked #9 for life expectancy at birth, total > years globally in 2011.
- Faeroe Islands has ranked in the top 20 for life expectancy at birth, male > years since 1973.
- Faeroe Islands has ranked #7 in life expectancy at birth, female > years since 2010.
- Faeroe Islands has ranked in the top 6 for births and maternity > twin births per million people since 1987.
- Faeroe Islands has ranked in the top 29 for births and maternity > single births per thousand people since 1968.
- Faeroe Islands has ranked in the top 52 for deaths > rural deaths of infant girls since 1966.
- Faeroe Islands has ranked in the top 53 for births and maternity > abortion > legal abortions total per thousand people since 1971.
- Faeroe Islands has ranked in the top 53 for deaths > rural deaths of infants since 1966.
- Faeroe Islands has ranked in the top 53 for deaths > urban deaths of infant boys since 1966.
- Faeroe Islands has ranked in the top 54 for births and maternity > rural births of boys since 1968.
- Faeroe Islands has ranked in the top 54 for births and maternity > rural births of girls since 1968.