Mauritius: main figures from the Health Statistics Report 2007
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Cabinet [05/12/2008] has taken note of the publication by the Ministry of Health and Quality of Life of the Health Statistics Report 2007. The salient features of the Report are, inter alia, as follows:-
For Island of Mauritius
(a) Crude Birth Rate was 13.2 per thousand mid-year resident population as compared to 13.8 in 2006;
(b) Crude Death Rate was 6.8 per thousand mid-year population as compared to 7.3 in 2006;
(c) total fertility rate dropped to 1.6 in 2007;
(d) life expectancy at birth rose from 61 years for male and 66 years for female in 1973 to 69 years and 76 years respectively in 2007;
(e) 13,480 births occurred in government hospitals in 2007 representing 83% of all births registered in the Island; and
(f) the total number of pathological tests carried out in public laboratories, which was 3.5 million in 1997, increased to 7.4 million in 2007.
For Island of Rodrigues
(a) the Crude Birth Rate was 22.6 per 1,000 mid-year resident population in 2007;
(b) from 27.2 per thousand live births in 2006, the Infant Mortality Rate went down to 15.4 in 2007; and
(c) diseases of the circulatory system were responsible for 35.4% of all deaths in 2007, endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (mainly diabetes) for 16.6%, neoplasms (cancer etc.) for 18.3% , diseases of the respiratory system for 8.6% and injury and poisoning for 6.9%.
For Island of Mauritius
(a) Crude Birth Rate was 13.2 per thousand mid-year resident population as compared to 13.8 in 2006;
(b) Crude Death Rate was 6.8 per thousand mid-year population as compared to 7.3 in 2006;
(c) total fertility rate dropped to 1.6 in 2007;
(d) life expectancy at birth rose from 61 years for male and 66 years for female in 1973 to 69 years and 76 years respectively in 2007;
(e) 13,480 births occurred in government hospitals in 2007 representing 83% of all births registered in the Island; and
(f) the total number of pathological tests carried out in public laboratories, which was 3.5 million in 1997, increased to 7.4 million in 2007.
For Island of Rodrigues
(a) the Crude Birth Rate was 22.6 per 1,000 mid-year resident population in 2007;
(b) from 27.2 per thousand live births in 2006, the Infant Mortality Rate went down to 15.4 in 2007; and
(c) diseases of the circulatory system were responsible for 35.4% of all deaths in 2007, endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (mainly diabetes) for 16.6%, neoplasms (cancer etc.) for 18.3% , diseases of the respiratory system for 8.6% and injury and poisoning for 6.9%.
