A few things from the 2003 Economist World Book of Figures...
Highest health spending as % of GDP
1. USA @ 12.9%
8. Canada @ 9.5%
Their GDP is so freaking enormous compared to everyone else that this is a big thing IMO.
Hospital Beds per 1000 people
1. Switzerland 18.1
47. Canada 4.1
55. USA 3.5
AIDS cases per 100,000 population
1. Namibia 1,485
16. Rwanda 297
17. Thailand 289.0
18. United States 284.6
19. Togo 266.1
40. Haiti 109.3
List ends at 40. I don't know where Canada sits. That's a bad one.
Lowest infant mortality per 1000 live births
1. Japan
17. Canada
26. New Zealand
List ends at 26.
Life expectancy
1. Japan 81.5
10. Canada 79.0
28. USA 77.5
Random... USA has more doctors. Canada has more deaths from cancer, they have more from heart attack.
Neither country is in the top 23 for smoking cigarettes. The Yanks drink more beer than us! 65.5 litres for them, 49.7 for us.
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