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Yemen health conditions can be analyzed from factors such as life expectancy rates, death rates, annual expenditures on health and so on. People of Yemen are known to have the shortest life span. The expected average age of males at the time of birth in Yemen is 59 years, whereas the same for females is 62 years. On the other hand, the healthy life expectancy rate at birth of Yemen males is 48 years, whereas the same for females is 51 years.
As per the Census of the year 2005, the current population of Yemen is 20,675,000. According to the same Census, the adult mortality rate amongt 1000 males between 15 and 60 years of age is 286, whereas the same amongst 1000 women is 219. In the 2005 Census, it is also estimated that around 5% of the total GDP is spent as an annual expenditure on health in Yemen.
In the recent times, many diseases at Yemen have spread including acute hemorrhagic fever, rift valley fever, poliomyelitis, hepatitis A, typhoid, yellow fever, typhoid and so on. To control the spread of these diseases and improve the health conditions in Yemen, qualified physicians and well trained nurses are required.
Yemen health conditions can improve in the future if more and more people take up the medical profession. Moreover, the government also needs to increase the amount of money spent on health.
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