Progress Amid Resistance

SAUDI ARABIA 457.pdf; “Mortality Country Fact Sheet 2006” (World Health Organization), indicates thatin 2004, women on average lived six years longer than men.92Human Development Report 2007–2008, UNDP.93Human Development Report 2007–2008, UNDP, Table 6, Commit ment to Health: Re -sources, Access and Services, 248. For comparison, 75 percent of women in Canada usecontraception, and 98 percent are attended by skilled health personnel.94Human Development Report 2007–2008, UNDP, Table 10, Survival: Progress and Setbacks,263–264. “Mortality Country Fact Sheet 2006” gives the maternal mortality ratein 2000 at 23 per 1,000 live births.95The CIA World Factbook for 2008 gives a much lower figure for infant mortality, at 12.01deaths per 1,000, double that of the United States. www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sa.html#People.96Interviews conducted by author in Riyadh at the National Guard Hospital, Riyadh,January 2002.