Healthcare in Niger

Healthcare in Niger is slightly below average in a worldwide comparison.

Probably the most important indicator that can be used to summarize the efficiency of all measures is general life expectancy. In other words, the theoretical age that a newborn child could potentially reach today. At the moment, this age in Niger is 60.5 years for men and 62.5 years for women. For comparison: worldwide life expectancy is about 10.9 years lower (men: 69.8 / women: 74.9 years).

A total of 31.40 USD per inhabitant is spent annually on health measures at state expense. This corresponds to approximately 5.7 percent of the gross domestic product. Internationally, this amount averages 1,115.01 USD (~ 9.8% of the respective GDP).

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Distribution of the corona virus

Spread of COVID-19 in Niger

Since the beginning of the pandemic until January 27th, 2023, a total of 9,508 infected people and 315 deaths have been reported in Niger.

The total of 9,508 infected people currently represents 0.039 percent of the total population.

Current vaccination status

According to official WHO data, a total of 7.19 million vaccine doses have been administered as of December 11th, 2022. More recent data are not yet available to WHO. There are 6.07 million people who have received at least one vaccination (25.1 percent).

5.31 million of these are considered fully vaccinated in Niger (= 21.9 percent).
This means that Niger is one of the countries with the worst vaccination coverage in the world.The vaccination rate is higher in 201 countries.

Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, we update the worldwide case numbers daily. A list of all infections and deaths by country can be found on our COVID-19 virus topic page.

Weight and size

	Male	Female
Body height	169 cm	159 cm
BMI	21.4	22.3
Weight	61.1 kg	56.6 kg

Diseases

	Niger	Ø worldwide
Diabetes *	2.40%	8.81%
Tuberculosis	0.79‰	1.34‰
Malaria	35.7%	5.7%
HIV / Aids	0.01%	0.03%

* The number of people suffering from diabetes refers only to inhabitants aged between 20 and 79 years.

Child vaccinations

	Niger	Ø worldwide
Measles	80.0%	81.7%
Hepatitis B	0.08%	0.08%
Tetanus	8.3%	0.0%
DTP *	8.20%	8.14%

* DTP is a combined basic vaccination against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus, which should be given to children up to the age of 23 months.

In Niger, 7.4 percent of all over 15-year-olds are still smokers.

Medical supplies

Medical care provided by doctors and hospitals in Niger is below average compared to the world population. The country provides 0.4 hospital beds per 1,000 inhabitants. The global mean here is 2.9 beds. Within the EU, 4.6 beds are available for every 1,000 residents.

With about 1,260 physicians in Niger, there are about 0.05 doctors per 1000 inhabitants. Here again the comparison: worldwide this standard is 1.50 physicians per 1,000 inhabitants and in the EU is 3.57.

Through medical care, the mortality rate of major known diseases can be reduced as far as possible. For example, only about 21 percent of all people who suffer from cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases or chylomicron retention disease (CRD) currently die.

Sources

The above data correspond to the information from the World Health Organization, Global Health Workforce Statistics, UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, Global Health Observatory Data Repository and OECD. The case numbers for the spread of the COVID-19 come from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

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