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Health in Lithuania
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As of 2019[update] Lithuanian life expectancy at birth was 76.0 (71.2 years for males and 80.4 for females)[1] and the infant mortality rate was 2.99 per 1,000 births.[2] This is below the EU and OECD average.[3]
Lithuania has seen a dramatic rise in suicides in the 1990s.[4] The suicide rate has been constantly decreasing since, but it still remains the highest in the EU and the OECD.[5] Suicide in Lithuania has been a subject of research. As of 2019, the suicide rate is 20.2 per 100,000 people.[4] As of 2017, 4.3% of deaths in Lithuania are caused by accidents.[6]
In 2018, Lithuania ranked 28th in Europe in the Euro health consumer index, a ranking of European healthcare systems based on waiting time, results and other indicators.
- ^ "Life expectancy and Healthy life expectancy, data by country". World Health Organization. 2020.
- ^ "Infant mortality rate - Total". UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Health at a Glance: Europe" (PDF). OECD. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
- ^ a b "Suicide rates. Data by country". World Health Organization. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
- ^ "Savižudybių statistika" (in Lithuanian). State Mental Health Centre.
- ^ "Accidents and injuries statistics". Eurostat. August 2020. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
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