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Refugees and internally displaced persons:
the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimated that in December 2006 there was a global population of 8.8 million registered refugees and as many as 24.5 million IDPs in more than 50 countries; the actual global population of refugees is probably closer to 10 million given the estimated 1.5 million Iraqi refugees displaced throughout the Middle East (2007)
Trafficking in persons:
current situation: approximately 800,000 people, mostly women and children, are trafficked annually across national borders, not including millions trafficked within their own countries; at least 80% of the victims are female and up to 50% are minors; 75% of all victims are trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation; almost two-thirds of the global victims are trafficked intra-regionally within East Asia and the Pacific (260,000 to 280,000 people) and Europe and Eurasia (170,000 to 210,000 people)
Tier 2 Watch List: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, The Gambia, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, India, Jordan, Libya, Malaysia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Niger, Panama, Republic of the Congo, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Tier 3: Algeria, Burma, Cuba, Fiji, Iran, Kuwait, Moldova, North Korea, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria (2008)
Illicit drugs:
cocaine: worldwide coca leaf cultivation in 2007 amounted to 232,500 hectares; Colombia produced slightly more than two-thirds of the worldwide crop, followed by Peru and Bolivia; potential pure cocaine production decreased 7% to 865 metric tons in 2007; Colombia conducts an aggressive coca eradication campaign, but both Peruvian and Bolivian Governments are hesitant to eradicate coca in key growing areas; 551 metric tons of export-quality cocaine (85% pure) is documented to have been seized or destroyed in 2005; US consumption of export quality cocaine is estimated to have been in excess of 380 metric tons
opiates: worldwide illicit opium poppy cultivation continued to increase in 2007, with a potential opium production of 8,400 metric tons, reaching the highest levels recorded since estimates began in mid-1980s; Afghanistan is world's primary opium producer, accounting for 95% of the global supply; Southeast Asia - responsible for 9% of global opium - saw marginal increases in production; Latin America produced 1% of global opium, but most was refined into heroin destined for the US market; if all potential opium was processed into pure heroin, the potential global production would be 1,000 metric tons of heroin in 2007
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@Yemen (Middle East)
Introduction ::Yemen
Background:
North Yemen became independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. The British, who had set up a protectorate area around the southern port of Aden in the 19th century, withdrew in 1967 from what became South Yemen. Three years later, the southern government adopted a Marxist orientation. The massive exodus of hundreds of thousands of Yemenis from the south to the north contributed to two decades of hostility between the states. The two countries were formally unified as the Republic of Yemen in 1990. A southern secessionist movement in 1994 was quickly subdued. In 2000, Saudi Arabia and Yemen agreed to a delimitation of their border.
Geography ::Yemen
Location:
Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea, between Oman and Saudi Arabia
Geographic coordinates:
15 00 N, 48 00 E
Map references:
Middle East
Area:
total: 527,968 sq km country comparison to the world: 49 land: 527,968 sq km
water: 0 sq km
note: includes Perim, Socotra, the former Yemen Arab Republic (YAR or North Yemen), and the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY or South Yemen)
Area - comparative:
slightly larger than twice the size of Wyoming
Land boundaries:
total: 1,746 km
border countries: Oman 288 km, Saudi Arabia 1,458 km
Coastline:
1,906 km
Maritime claims:
territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Climate:
mostly desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in western mountains affected by seasonal monsoon; extraordinarily hot, dry, harsh desert in east
Terrain:
narrow coastal plain backed by flat-topped hills and rugged mountains; dissected upland desert plains in center slope into the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula
Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Arabian Sea 0 m
highest point: Jabal an Nabi Shu'ayb 3,667 m
Natural resources:
petroleum, fish, rock salt, marble; small deposits of coal, gold, lead, nickel, and copper; fertile soil in west
Land use:
arable land: 2.91%
permanent crops: 0.25%
other: 96.84% (2005)
Irrigated land:
5,500 sq km (2003)
Total renewable water resources:
4.1 cu km (1997)
Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):
total: 6.63 cu km/yr (4%/1%/95%)
per capita: 316 cu m/yr (2000)
Natural hazards:
sandstorms and dust storms in summer
Environment - current issues:
limited natural fresh water resources; inadequate supplies of potable water; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification
Environment - international agreements:
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
strategic location on Bab el Mandeb, the strait linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, one of world's most active shipping lanes
People ::Yemen
Population:
23,822,783 (July 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 48
Age structure:
0-14 years: 46.2% (male 5,602,590/female 5,398,103)
15-64 years: 51.3% (male 6,212,378/female 6,009,401)
65 years and over: 2.5% (male 288,501/female 311,810) (2009 est.)
Median age:
total: 16.8 years
male: 16.7 years
female: 16.8 years (2009 est.)
Population growth rate:
3.453% (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 4
Birth rate:
42.14 births/1,000 population (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 12
Death rate:
7.61 deaths/1,000 population (July 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 119
Net migration rate:
NA (2009 est.)
Urbanization:
urban population: 31% of total population (2008)
rate of urbanization: 4.9% annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.92 male(s)/female
total population: 1.03 male(s)/female (2009 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 54.7 deaths/1,000 live births country comparison to the world: 45 male: 59.12 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 50.07 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 63.27 years country comparison to the world: 173 male: 61.3 years
female: 65.33 years (2009 est.)
Total fertility rate:
6.32 children born/woman (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 7
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.1% (2001 est.) country comparison to the world: 157
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
12,000 (2001 est.) country comparison to the world: 96
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
NA
Major infectious diseases:
degree of risk: high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne diseases: dengue fever and malaria
water contact disease: schistosomiasis (2009)
Nationality:
noun: Yemeni(s)
adjective: Yemeni
Ethnic groups:
predominantly Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asians, Europeans
Religions:
Muslim including Shaf'i (Sunni) and Zaydi (Shia), small numbers of Jewish, Christian, and Hindu
Languages:
Arabic
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 50.2%
male: 70.5%
female: 30% (2003 est.)
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
total: 9 years
male: 11 years
female: 7 years (2005)
Education expenditures:
9.6% of GDP (2001) country comparison to the world: 5
Government ::Yemen
Country name:
conventional long form: Republic of Yemen
conventional short form: Yemen
local long form: Al Jumhuriyah al Yamaniyah
local short form: Al Yaman
former: Yemen Arab Republic [Yemen (Sanaa) or North Yemen] and People's Democratic Republic of Yemen [Yemen (Aden) or South Yemen]
Government type:
republic
Capital:
name: Sanaa
geographic coordinates: 15 21 N, 44 12 E
time difference: UTC+3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
Administrative divisions:
21 governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazah); Abyan, 'Adan, Ad Dali', Al Bayda', Al Hudaydah, Al Jawf, Al Mahrah, Al Mahwit, Amanat al 'Asimah, 'Amran, Dhamar, Hadramawt, Hajjah, Ibb, Lahij, Ma'rib, Raymah, Sa'dah, San'a', Shabwah, Ta'izz
Independence:
22 May 1990 (Republic of Yemen was established with the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic [Yemen (Sanaa) or North Yemen] and the Marxist-dominated People's Democratic Republic of Yemen [Yemen (Aden) or South Yemen]); note - previously North Yemen became independent in November 1918 (from the Ottoman Empire) and became a republic with the overthrow of the theocratic Imamate in 1962; South Yemen became independent on 30 November 1967 (from the UK)
National holiday:
Unification Day, 22 May (1990)
Constitution:
16 May 1991; amended 29 September 1994 and February 2001
Legal system:
based on Islamic law, Turkish law, English common law, and local tribal customary law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
Suffrage:
18 years of age; universal
Executive branch:
chief of state: President Ali Abdallah SALIH (since 22 May 1990, the former president of North Yemen, assumed office upon the merger of North and South Yemen); Vice President Maj. Gen. Abd al-Rab Mansur al-HADI (since 3 October 1994)
head of government: Prime Minister Ali Muhammad MUJAWWAR (since 31 March 2007)
cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister
elections: president elected by popular vote for a seven-year term; election last held 20 September 2006 (next to be held in September 2013); vice president appointed by the president; prime minister and deputy prime ministers appointed by the president
election results: Ali Abdallah SALIH elected president; percent of vote - Ali Abdallah SALIH 77.2%, Faysal BIN SHAMLAN 21.8%
Legislative branch:
a bicameral legislature consisting of a Shura Council (111 seats; members appointed by the president) and a House of Representatives (301 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve six-year terms)
elections: last held on 27 April 2003 (scheduled April 2009 election postponed for two years)
election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - GPC 228, Islah 47, YSP 7, Nasserite Unionist Party 3, National Arab Socialist Ba'th Party 2, independents 14
Judicial branch:
Supreme Court
Political parties and leaders:
General People's Congress or GPC [Abdul-Kader BAJAMMAL]; Islamic Reform Grouping or Islah [Mohammed Abdullah AL-YADOUMI (acting)]; Nasserite Unionist Party [Abdal Malik al-MAKHLAFI]; National Arab Socialist Ba'th Party [Dr. Qasim SALAM]; Yemeni Socialist Party or YSP [Ali Salih MUQBIL]; note - there are at least seven more active political parties
Political pressure groups and leaders:
Muslim Brotherhood; Women National Committee
other: conservative tribal groups
International organization participation:
AFESD, AMF, CAEU, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAS, MIGA, MINURCAT, MINURSO, MONUC, NAM, OAS (observer), OIC, OPCW, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNOMIG, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)
Diplomatic representation in the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Abd al-Wahab Abdallah al-HAJRI
chancery: 2319 Wyoming Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008
telephone: [1] (202) 965-4760
FAX: [1] (202) 337-2017
Diplomatic representation from the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Stephen A. SECHE
embassy: Sa'awan Street, Sanaa
mailing address: P. O. Box 22347, Sanaa
telephone: [967] (1) 755-2000 ext. 2153 or 2266
FAX: [967] (1) 303-182
Flag description:
three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and black; similar to the flag of Syria, which has two green stars in the white band, and of Iraq, which has an Arabic inscription centered in the white band; also similar to the flag of Egypt, which has a heraldic eagle centered in the white band
Economy ::Yemen
Economy - overview:
Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Arab world, reported average annual growth in the range of 3-4% from 2000 through 2007. In 2008, growth declined slightly as the price of oil dropped and the slowing global economy reduced demand for oil. Yemen's economic fortunes depend mostly on declining oil resources, but the country is trying to diversify its earnings. In 2006, Yemen began an economic reform program designed to bolster non-oil sectors of the economy and foreign investment. As a result of the program, international donors pledged about $5 billion for development projects. A liquefied natural gas facility is scheduled to open in 2009. Yemen has limited exposure to the international financial system and no capital markets, however, the global financial crisis probably will reduce international aid in 2009.
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$55.41 billion (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 86 $53.69 billion (2007 est.)
$51.87 billion (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
GDP (official exchange rate):
$26.91 billion (2008 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
3.2% (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 118 3.5% (2007 est.)
3.2% (2006 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP):
$2,500 (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 175 $2,500 (2007 est.)
$2,500 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 10.3%
industry: 56.5%
services: 33.2% (2008 est.)
Labor force:
6.454 million (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 65
Labor force - by occupation:
note: most people are employed in agriculture and herding; services, construction, industry, and commerce account for less than one-fourth of the labor force
Unemployment rate:
35% (2003 est.) country comparison to the world: 183
Population below poverty line:
45.2% (2003)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2.9%
highest 10%: 30.8% (2005)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
37.7 (2005) country comparison to the world: 76 33.4 (1998)
Investment (gross fixed):
25.9% of GDP (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 45
Budget:
revenues: $9.243 billion
expenditures: $10.36 billion (2008 est.)
Public debt:
28.1% of GDP (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 77 46.4% of GDP (2004 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
19% (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 202 10% (2007 est.)
Central bank discount rate:
NA%
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
18% (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 24 18% (31 December 2007)
Stock of money:
$NA (31 December 2008)
$3.076 billion (31 December 2007)
Stock of quasi money:
$NA (31 December 2008)
$4.526 billion (31 December 2007)
Stock of domestic credit:
$NA (31 December 2008)
$2.224 billion (31 December 2007)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$NA
Agriculture - products:
grain, fruits, vegetables, pulses, qat, coffee, cotton; dairy products, livestock (sheep, goats, cattle, camels), poultry; fish
Industries:
crude oil production and petroleum refining; small-scale production of cotton textiles and leather goods; food processing; handicrafts; small aluminum products factory; cement; commercial ship repair
Industrial production growth rate:
2.8% (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 89
Electricity - production:
5.665 billion kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 107
Electricity - consumption:
4.133 billion kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 116
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2008 est.)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2008 est.)
Oil - production:
300,100 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 37
Oil - consumption:
149,000 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 67
Oil - exports:
274,400 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 44
Oil - imports:
65,860 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 80
Oil - proved reserves:
3 billion bbl (1 January 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 30
Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 110
Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 118
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2008) country comparison to the world: 85
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 110
Natural gas - proved reserves:
478.5 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 32
Current account balance:
-$1.113 billion (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 125 -$1.547 billion (2007 est.)
Exports:
$8.977 billion (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 91 $7.05 billion (2007 est.)
Exports - commodities:
crude oil, coffee, dried and salted fish
Exports - partners:
China 28.4%, Thailand 23.6%, India 16.1%, South Africa 13.4%, Japan 4.7% (2008)
Imports:
$8.829 billion (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 96 $7.49 billion (2007 est.)
Imports - commodities:
food and live animals, machinery and equipment, chemicals
Imports - partners:
UAE 14.7%, India 11.7%, China 11.3%, Saudi Arabia 6.9%, Kuwait 5.2% (2008)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$8.157 billion (31 December 2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 73 $7.759 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Debt - external:
$5.977 billion (31 December 2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 101 $6.044 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Exchange rates:
Yemeni rials (YER) per US dollar - 199.76 (2008 est.), 199.14 (2007), 197.18 (2006), 192.67 (2005), 184.78 (2004)
Communications ::Yemen
Telephones - main lines in use:
1.117 million (2008) country comparison to the world: 72
Telephones - mobile cellular:
3.7 million (2008) country comparison to the world: 96
Telephone system:
general assessment: since unification in 1990, efforts have been made to create a national telecommunications network
domestic: the national network consists of microwave radio relay, cable, tropospheric scatter, GSM and CDMA mobile-cellular telephone systems; fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity remains low by regional standards
international: country code - 967; landing point for the international submarine cable Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG); satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region), and 2 Arabsat; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia and Djibouti
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 6, FM 1, shortwave 2 (1998)
Television broadcast stations:
3 (including one Egypt-based station that broadcasts in Yemen); plus several repeaters (2007)
Internet country code:
.ye
Internet hosts:
242 (2009) country comparison to the world: 184
Internet users:
370,000 (2008) country comparison to the world: 115
Transportation ::Yemen
Airports:
55 (2009) country comparison to the world: 85
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 18
over 3,047 m: 4
2,438 to 3,047 m: 9
1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2009)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 37
over 3,047 m: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 5
1,524 to 2,437 m: 6
914 to 1,523 m: 14
under 914 m: 9 (2009)
Pipelines:
gas 96 km; liquid petroleum gas 22 km; oil 1,367 km (2008)
Roadways:
total: 71,300 km country comparison to the world: 65 paved: 6,200 km
unpaved: 65,100 km (2005)
Merchant marine:
total: 4 country comparison to the world: 135 by type: cargo 1, chemical tanker 1, petroleum tanker 1, roll on/roll off 1
registered in other countries: 13 (North Korea 2, Moldova 1, Panama 6, Saint Kitts and Nevis 1, Sierra Leone 2, unknown 1) (2008)
Ports and terminals:
Aden, Al Hudaydah, Al Mukalla
Transportation - note:
the International Maritime Bureau reports offshore waters in the Gulf of Aden are high risk for piracy; numerous vessels, including commercial shipping and pleasure craft, have been attacked and hijacked both at anchor and while underway; crew, passengers, and cargo are held for ransom
Military ::Yemen
Military branches:
Army (includes Republican Guard), Navy (includes Marines), Yemen Air Force (Al Quwwat al Jawwiya al Jamahiriya al Yemeniya; includes Air Defense Force) (2009)
Military service age and obligation:
voluntary military service program authorized in 2001; 2-year service obligation (2006)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 5,080,038
females age 16-49: 4,852,555 (2008 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 3,733,704
females age 16-49: 3,773,626 (2009 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 273,624
female: 263,402 (2009 est.)
Military expenditures:
6.6% of GDP (2006) country comparison to the world: 7
Military - note:
a Coast Guard was established in 2002
Transnational Issues ::Yemen
Disputes - international:
Saudi Arabia has reinforced its concrete-filled security barrier along sections of the fully demarcated border with Yemen to stem illegal cross-border activities
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 91,587 (Somalia) (2007)
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@Zambia (Africa)
Introduction ::Zambia
Background:
The territory of Northern Rhodesia was administered by the [British] South Africa Company from 1891 until it was taken over by the UK in 1923. During the 1920s and 1930s, advances in mining spurred development and immigration. The name was changed to Zambia upon independence in 1964. In the 1980s and 1990s, declining copper prices and a prolonged drought hurt the economy. Elections in 1991 brought an end to one-party rule, but the subsequent vote in 1996 saw blatant harassment of opposition parties. The election in 2001 was marked by administrative problems with three parties filing a legal petition challenging the election of ruling party candidate Levy MWANAWASA. The new president launched an anticorruption investigation in 2002 to probe high-level corruption during the previous administration. In 2006-07, this task force successfully prosecuted four cases, including a landmark civil case in the UK in which former President CHILUBA and numerous others were found liable for USD 41 million. MWANAWASA was reelected in 2006 in an election that was deemed free and fair. Upon his abrupt death in August 2008, he was succeeded by his Vice-president Rupiah BANDA, who subsequently won a special presidential election in October 2008.
Geography ::Zambia
Location:
Southern Africa, east of Angola
Geographic coordinates:
15 00 S, 30 00 E
Map references:
Africa
Area:
total: 752,618 sq km country comparison to the world: 39 land: 743,398 sq km
water: 9,220 sq km
Area - comparative:
slightly larger than Texas
Land boundaries:
total: 5,664 km
border countries: Angola 1,110 km, Democratic Republic of the Congo 1,930 km, Malawi 837 km, Mozambique 419 km, Namibia 233 km, Tanzania 338 km, Zimbabwe 797 km
Coastline:
0 km (landlocked)
Maritime claims:
none (landlocked)
Climate:
tropical; modified by altitude; rainy season (October to April)
Terrain:
mostly high plateau with some hills and mountains
Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Zambezi river 329 m
highest point: unnamed location in Mafinga Hills 2,301 m
Natural resources:
copper, cobalt, zinc, lead, coal, emeralds, gold, silver, uranium, hydropower
Land use:
arable land: 6.99%
permanent crops: 0.04%
other: 92.97% (2005)
Irrigated land:
1,560 sq km (2003)
Total renewable water resources:
105.2 cu km (2001)
Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):
total: 1.74 cu km/yr (17%/7%/76%)
per capita: 149 cu m/yr (2000)
Natural hazards:
periodic drought; tropical storms (November to April)
Environment - current issues:
air pollution and resulting acid rain in the mineral extraction and refining region; chemical runoff into watersheds; poaching seriously threatens rhinoceros, elephant, antelope, and large cat populations; deforestation; soil erosion; desertification; lack of adequate water treatment presents human health risks
Environment - international agreements:
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
landlocked; the Zambezi forms a natural riverine boundary with Zimbabwe
People ::Zambia
Population:
11,862,740 country comparison to the world: 71 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2009 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 45.1% (male 2,685,142/female 2,659,771)
15-64 years: 52.6% (male 3,122,305/female 3,116,846)
65 years and over: 2.3% (male 114,477/female 164,199) (2009 est.)
Median age:
total: 17 years
male: 16.9 years
female: 17.2 years (2009 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.631% (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 82
Birth rate:
40.24 births/1,000 population (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 17
Death rate:
21.34 deaths/1,000 population (July 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 5
Net migration rate:
-2.59 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 146
Urbanization:
urban population: 35% of total population (2008)
rate of urbanization: 2.3% annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.7 male(s)/female
total population: 1 male(s)/female (2009 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 101.2 deaths/1,000 live births country comparison to the world: 9 male: 105.97 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 96.28 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 38.63 years country comparison to the world: 222 male: 38.53 years
female: 38.73 years (2009 est.)
Total fertility rate:
5.15 children born/woman (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 25
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
15.2% (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 7
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
1.1 million (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 11
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
56,000 (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 12
Major infectious diseases:
degree of risk: very high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne diseases: malaria and plague are high risks in some locations
water contact disease: schistosomiasis
animal contact disease: rabies (2009)
Nationality:
noun: Zambian(s)
adjective: Zambian
Ethnic groups:
African 99.5% (includes Bemba, Tonga, Chewa, Lozi, Nsenga, Tumbuka, Ngoni, Lala, Kaonde, Lunda, and other African groups), other 0.5% (includes Europeans, Asians, and Americans) (2000 Census)
Religions:
Christian 50%-75%, Muslim and Hindu 24%-49%, indigenous beliefs 1%
Languages:
Bemba 30.1% (official), Nyanja 10.7% (official), Tonga 10.6% (official), Lozi 5.7% (official), Chewa 4.9%, Nsenga 3.4%, Tumbuka 2.5%, Lunda 2.2% (official), Kaonde 2% (official), Lala 2%, Luvale 1.7% (official), English 1.7% (official), other 22.5% (2000 Census)
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write English
total population: 80.6%
male: 86.8%
female: 74.8% (2003 est.)
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
total: 7 years
male: 7 years
female: 7 years (2000)
Education expenditures:
2% of GDP (2005) country comparison to the world: 167
Government ::Zambia
Country name:
conventional long form: Republic of Zambia
conventional short form: Zambia
former: Northern Rhodesia
Government type:
republic
Capital:
name: Lusaka
geographic coordinates: 15 25 S, 28 17 E
time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
Administrative divisions:
9 provinces; Central, Copperbelt, Eastern, Luapula, Lusaka, Northern, North-Western, Southern, Western
Independence:
24 October 1964 (from the UK)
National holiday:
Independence Day, 24 October (1964)
Constitution:
24 August 1991; amended in 1996 to establish presidential term limits
Legal system:
based on English common law and customary law; judicial review of legislative acts in an ad hoc constitutional council; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
Suffrage:
18 years of age; universal
Executive branch:
chief of state: President Rupiah BANDA (since 19 August 2008); Vice President George KUNDA (since 14 November 2008); note - President BANDA was acting president since the illness and eventual death of President Levy MWANAWASA on 18 August 2008, he was then elected president on 30 October 2008 to serve out the remainder of MWANAWASA's term; the president is both the chief of state and head of government
head of government: President Rupiah BANDA (since 19 August 2008); Vice President George KUNDA (since 14 November 2008)
cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president from among the members of the National Assembly
elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held 30 October 2008 (next to be held in 2011); vice president appointed by the president; note - due to the death of former President Levy MWANAWASA, early elections were held to identify a replacement to serve out the remainder of his term
election results: Rupiah BANDA elected president; percent of vote - Rupiah BANDA 40.1%, Michael SATA 38.1%, Hakainde HICHILEMA 19.7%, Godfrey MIYANDA 0.8%, other 1.3%
Legislative branch:
unicameral National Assembly (158 seats; 150 members are elected by popular vote, 8 members are appointed by the president, to serve five-year terms)
elections: last held 28 September 2006 (next to be held in October 2011)
election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - MMD 72, PF 44, UDA 27, ULP 2, NDF 1, independents 2; seats not determined 2
Judicial branch:
Supreme Court (the final court of appeal; justices are appointed by the president); High Court (has unlimited jurisdiction to hear civil and criminal cases)
Political parties and leaders:
Forum for Democracy and Development or FDD [Edith NAWAKWI]; Heritage Party or HP [Godfrey MIYANDA]; Movement for Multiparty Democracy or MMD [vacant]; Patriotic Front or PF [Michael SATA]; Party of Unity for Democracy and Development or PUDD [Dan PULE]; Reform Party [Nevers MUMBA]; United Democratic Alliance or UDA (a coalition of RP, ZADECO, PUDD, and ZRP); United Liberal Party or ULP [Sakwiba SIKOTA]; United National Independence Party or UNIP [Tilyenji KAUNDA]; United Party for National Development or UPND [Hakainde HICHILEMA]; Zambia Democratic Congress or ZADECO [Langton SICHONE]; Zambian Republican Party or ZRP [Benjamin MWILA]
Political pressure groups and leaders:
NA
International organization participation:
ACP, AfDB, AU, C, COMESA, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURCAT, MONUC, NAM, OPCW, PCA, SADC, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
Diplomatic representation in the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Inonge MBIKUSITA-LEWANIKA
chancery: 2419 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008
telephone: [1] (202) 265-9717 through 9719
FAX: [1] (202) 332-0826
Diplomatic representation from the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Donald E. BOOTH
embassy: corner of Independence and United Nations Avenues, Lusaka
mailing address: P. O. Box 31617, Lusaka
telephone: [260] (211) 250-955
FAX: [260] (211) 252-225
Flag description:
green field with a panel of three vertical bands of red (hoist side), black, and orange below a soaring orange eagle, on the outer edge of the flag
Economy ::Zambia
Economy - overview:
Zambia's economy has experienced strong growth in recent years, with real GDP growth in 2005-08 about 6% per year. Privatization of government-owned copper mines in the 1990s relieved the government from covering mammoth losses generated by the industry and greatly improved the chances for copper mining to return to profitability and spur economic growth. Copper output has increased steadily since 2004, due to higher copper prices and foreign investment. In 2005, Zambia qualified for debt relief under the Highly Indebted Poor Country Initiative, consisting of approximately USD 6 billion in debt relief. Zambia experienced a bumper harvest in 2007, which helped to boost GDP and agricultural exports and contain inflation. Although poverty continues to be significant problem in Zambia, its economy has strengthened, featuring single-digit inflation, a relatively stable currency, decreasing interest rates, and increasing levels of trade. The decline in world commodity prices and demand will hurt GDP growth in 2009, and elections and campaign promises are likely to weaken Zambia's improved fiscal stance.
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$17.54 billion (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 129 $16.55 billion (2007 est.)
$15.58 billion (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
GDP (official exchange rate):
$14.65 billion (2008 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
6% (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 60 6.2% (2007 est.)
6.2% (2006 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP):
$1,500 (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 200 $1,400 (2007 est.)
$1,400 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 16%
industry: 26.6%
services: 57.4% (2008 est.)
Labor force:
5.235 million (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 71
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 85%
industry: 6%
services: 9% (2004)
Unemployment rate:
50% (2000 est.) country comparison to the world: 193
Population below poverty line:
86% (1993)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 1.2%
highest 10%: 38.8% (2004)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
50.8 (2004) country comparison to the world: 20 52.6 (1998)
Investment (gross fixed):
25.5% of GDP (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 48
Budget:
revenues: $3.291 billion
expenditures: $3.578 billion (2008 est.)
Public debt:
29.5% of GDP (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 72 127.5% of GDP (2004 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
12.4% (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 172 10.6% (2007 est.)
Central bank discount rate:
14.49% (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 29 11.73% (31 December 2007)
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
19.06% (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 21 18.89% (31 December 2007)
Stock of money:
$1.034 billion (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 86 $995.8 million (31 December 2007)
Stock of quasi money:
$1.618 billion (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 87 $1.709 billion (31 December 2007)
Stock of domestic credit:
$2.138 billion (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 91 $1.968 billion (31 December 2007)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$NA (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 96 $2.346 billion (31 December 2007)
$1.186 billion (31 December 2006)
Agriculture - products:
corn, sorghum, rice, peanuts, sunflower seed, vegetables, flowers, tobacco, cotton, sugarcane, cassava (tapioca), coffee; cattle, goats, pigs, poultry, milk, eggs, hides
Industries:
copper mining and processing, construction, foodstuffs, beverages, chemicals, textiles, fertilizer, horticulture
Industrial production growth rate:
6% (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 40
Electricity - production:
9.752 billion kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 91
Electricity - consumption:
8.838 billion kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 88
Electricity - exports:
268 million kWh (2007)
Electricity - imports:
222 million kWh (2008 est.)
Oil - production:
159.3 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 109
Oil - consumption:
16,000 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 132
Oil - exports:
275.3 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 128
Oil - imports:
14,730 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 125
Oil - proved reserves:
0 bbl country comparison to the world: 112
Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 109
Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 117
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2008) country comparison to the world: 84
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 109
Natural gas - proved reserves:
0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 118
Current account balance:
-$977 million (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 117 -$198 million (2007 est.)
Exports:
$4.818 billion (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 110 $4.594 billion (2007 est.)
Exports - commodities:
copper/cobalt 64%, cobalt, electricity; tobacco, flowers, cotton
Exports - partners:
China 14.2%, South Africa 8.5%, Democratic Republic of the Congo 8.1%, Saudi Arabia 7.9%, South Korea 7.9%, Egypt 7.7%, Italy 6.9%, Belgium 4.1% (2008)
Imports:
$4.694 billion (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 119 $3.611 billion (2007 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery, transportation equipment, petroleum products, electricity, fertilizer; foodstuffs, clothing
Imports - partners:
South Africa 51.7%, UAE 8%, China 6.8%, India 4.5% (2008)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$1.096 billion (31 December 2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 125 $1.09 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Debt - external:
$3.095 billion (31 December 2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 124 $2.596 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
$40.34 billion (31 December 2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 56
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
$NA
Exchange rates:
Zambian kwacha (ZMK) per US dollar - 3,512.9 (2008 est.), 3,990.2 (2007), 3,601.5 (2006), 4,463.5 (2005), 4,778.9 (2004)
Communications ::Zambia
Telephones - main lines in use:
90,600 (2008) country comparison to the world: 146
Telephones - mobile cellular:
3.539 million (2008) country comparison to the world: 97
Telephone system:
general assessment: facilities are aging but still among the best in Sub-Saharan Africa
domestic: high-capacity microwave radio relay connects most larger towns and cities; several cellular telephone services in operation and network coverage is improving; Internet service is widely available; very small aperture terminal (VSAT) networks are operated by private firms
international: country code - 260; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 19, FM 5, shortwave 4 (2001)
Television broadcast stations:
9 (2001)
Internet country code:
.zm
Internet hosts:
14,951 (2009) country comparison to the world: 109
Internet users:
700,000 (2008) country comparison to the world: 100
Transportation ::Zambia
Airports:
97 (2009) country comparison to the world: 64
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 9
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 4
914 to 1,523 m: 2 (2009)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 88
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 4
914 to 1,523 m: 65
under 914 m: 18 (2009)
Pipelines:
oil 771 km (2008)
Railways:
total: 2,157 km country comparison to the world: 70 narrow gauge: 2,157 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2008)
Roadways:
total: 91,440 km country comparison to the world: 54 paved: 20,117 km
unpaved: 71,323 km (2001)
Waterways:
2,250 km (includes Lake Tanganyika and the Zambezi and Luapula rivers) (2008) country comparison to the world: 40
Ports and terminals:
Mpulungu
Military ::Zambia
Military branches:
Zambian National Defense Force (ZNDF): Zambian Army, Zambian Air Force, National Service (2009)
Military service age and obligation:
18-27 years of age for voluntary military service (16 years of age with parental consent); Zambian citizenship required; mandatory HIV testing on enlistment; no conscription (2009)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 2,678,668
females age 16-49: 2,567,433 (2008 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 1,364,173
females age 16-49: 1,245,220 (2009 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 149,567
female: 148,889 (2009 est.)
Military expenditures:
1.8% of GDP (2005 est.) country comparison to the world: 92
Transnational Issues ::Zambia
Disputes - international:
in 2004, Zimbabwe dropped objections to plans between Botswana and Zambia to build a bridge over the Zambezi River, thereby de facto recognizing a short, but not clearly delimited, Botswana-Zambia boundary in the river
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 42,565 (Angola); 60,874 (Democratic Republic of the Congo); 4,100 (Rwanda) (2007)
Trafficking in persons:
current situation: Zambia is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation; many Zambian child laborers, particularly those in the agriculture, domestic service, and fishing sectors, are also victims of human trafficking; Zambian women, lured by false employment or marriage offers abroad, are trafficked to South Africa via Zimbabwe and to Europe via Malawi for sexual exploitation; Zambia is a transit point for regional trafficking of women and children, particularly from Angola to Namibia and from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to South Africa for agricultural labor
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Zambia is on the Tier 2 Watch List for failing to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking, particularly in regard to its inability to bring alleged traffickers to justice through prosecutions and convictions; unlike 2006, there were no new prosecutions or convictions of alleged traffickers in 2007; government efforts to protect victims of trafficking remained extremely limited throughout the year (2008)
Illicit drugs:
transshipment point for moderate amounts of methaqualone, small amounts of heroin, and cocaine bound for southern Africa and possibly Europe; a poorly developed financial infrastructure coupled with a government commitment to combating money laundering make it an unattractive venue for money launderers; major consumer of cannabis
page last updated on November 11, 2009
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@Zimbabwe (Africa)
Introduction ::Zimbabwe
Background:
The UK annexed Southern Rhodesia from the [British] South Africa Company in 1923. A 1961 constitution was formulated that favored whites in power. In 1965 the government unilaterally declared its independence, but the UK did not recognize the act and demanded more complete voting rights for the black African majority in the country (then called Rhodesia). UN sanctions and a guerrilla uprising finally led to free elections in 1979 and independence (as Zimbabwe) in 1980. Robert MUGABE, the nation's first prime minister, has been the country's only ruler (as president since 1987) and has dominated the country's political system since independence. His chaotic land redistribution campaign, which began in 2000, caused an exodus of white farmers, crippled the economy, and ushered in widespread shortages of basic commodities. Ignoring international condemnation, MUGABE rigged the 2002 presidential election to ensure his reelection. The ruling ZANU-PF party used fraud and intimidation to win a two-thirds majority in the March 2005 parliamentary election, allowing it to amend the constitution at will and recreate the Senate, which had been abolished in the late 1980s. In April 2005, Harare embarked on Operation Restore Order, ostensibly an urban rationalization program, which resulted in the destruction of the homes or businesses of 700,000 mostly poor supporters of the opposition. President MUGABE in June 2007 instituted price controls on all basic commodities causing panic buying and leaving store shelves empty for months. General elections held in March 2008 contained irregularities but still amounted to a censure of the ZANU-PF-led government with significant gains in opposition seats in parliament. MDC opposition leader Morgan TSVANGIRAI won the presidential polls, and may have won an out right majority, but official results posted by the Zimbabwe Electoral Committee did not reflect this. In the lead up to a run-off election in late June 2008, considerable violence enacted against opposition party members led to the withdrawal of TSVANGIRAI from the ballot. Extensive evidence of vote tampering and ballot-box stuffing resulted in international condemnation of the process. Difficult negotiations over a power sharing agreement, allowing MUGABE to remain as president and creating the new position of prime minister for TSVANGIRAI, were finally settled in February 2009.
Geography ::Zimbabwe
Location:
Southern Africa, between South Africa and Zambia
Geographic coordinates:
20 00 S, 30 00 E
Map references:
Africa
Area:
total: 390,757 sq km country comparison to the world: 60 land: 386,847 sq km
water: 3,910 sq km
Area - comparative:
slightly larger than Montana
Land boundaries:
total: 3,066 km
border countries: Botswana 813 km, Mozambique 1,231 km, South Africa 225 km, Zambia 797 km
Coastline:
0 km (landlocked)
Maritime claims:
none (landlocked)
Climate:
tropical; moderated by altitude; rainy season (November to March)
Terrain:
mostly high plateau with higher central plateau (high veld); mountains in east
Elevation extremes:
lowest point: junction of the Runde and Save rivers 162 m
highest point: Inyangani 2,592 m
Natural resources:
coal, chromium ore, asbestos, gold, nickel, copper, iron ore, vanadium, lithium, tin, platinum group metals
Land use:
arable land: 8.24%
permanent crops: 0.33%
other: 91.43% (2005)
Irrigated land:
1,740 sq km (2003)
Total renewable water resources:
20 cu km (1987)
Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):
total: 4.21 cu km/yr (14%/7%/79%)
per capita: 324 cu m/yr (2002)
Natural hazards:
recurring droughts; floods and severe storms are rare
Environment - current issues:
deforestation; soil erosion; land degradation; air and water pollution; the black rhinoceros herd - once the largest concentration of the species in the world - has been significantly reduced by poaching; poor mining practices have led to toxic waste and heavy metal pollution
Environment - international agreements:
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
landlocked; the Zambezi forms a natural riverine boundary with Zambia; in full flood (February-April) the massive Victoria Falls on the river forms the world's largest curtain of falling water
People ::Zimbabwe
Population:
11,392,629 country comparison to the world: 73 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2009 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 43.9% (male 2,523,119/female 2,473,928)
15-64 years: 52.2% (male 2,666,928/female 3,283,474)
65 years and over: 3.9% (male 194,360/female 250,820) (2009 est.)
Median age:
total: 17.6 years
male: 16.3 years
female: 18.8 years (2009 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.53% (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 85
Birth rate:
31.49 births/1,000 population (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 46
Death rate:
16.19 deaths/1,000 population (July 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 14
Net migration rate:
NA
note: there is an increasing flow of Zimbabweans into South Africa and Botswana in search of better economic opportunities (2009 est.)
Urbanization:
urban population: 37% of total population (2008)
rate of urbanization: 2.2% annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.81 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.78 male(s)/female
total population: 0.9 male(s)/female (2009 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 32.31 deaths/1,000 live births country comparison to the world: 71 male: 34.9 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 29.64 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 45.77 years country comparison to the world: 213 male: 46.36 years
female: 45.16 years (2009 est.)
Total fertility rate:
3.69 children born/woman (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 52
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
15.3% (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 6
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
1.3 million (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 7
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
140,000 (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 5
Major infectious diseases:
degree of risk: high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne disease: malaria
water contact disease: schistosomiasis
animal contact disease: rabies (2009)
Nationality:
noun: Zimbabwean(s)
adjective: Zimbabwean
Ethnic groups:
African 98% (Shona 82%, Ndebele 14%, other 2%), mixed and Asian 1%, white less than 1%
Religions:
syncretic (part Christian, part indigenous beliefs) 50%, Christian 25%, indigenous beliefs 24%, Muslim and other 1%
Languages:
English (official), Shona, Sindebele (the language of the Ndebele, sometimes called Ndebele), numerous but minor tribal dialects
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write English
total population: 90.7%
male: 94.2%
female: 87.2% (2003 est.)
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
total: 9 years
male: 9 years
female: 9 years (2003)
Education expenditures:
4.6% of GDP (2000) country comparison to the world: 84
Government ::Zimbabwe
Country name:
conventional long form: Republic of Zimbabwe
conventional short form: Zimbabwe
former: Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia
Government type:
parliamentary democracy
Capital:
name: Harare
geographic coordinates: 17 50 S, 31 03 E
time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
Administrative divisions:
8 provinces and 2 cities* with provincial status; Bulawayo*, Harare*, Manicaland, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, Mashonaland West, Masvingo, Matabeleland North, Matabeleland South, Midlands
Independence:
18 April 1980 (from the UK)
National holiday:
Independence Day, 18 April (1980)
Constitution:
21 December 1979
Legal system:
mixture of Roman-Dutch and English common law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
Suffrage:
18 years of age; universal
Executive branch:
chief of state: Executive President Robert Gabriel MUGABE (since 31 December 1987); Vice President Joseph MSIKA (since December 1999) and Vice President Joyce MUJURU (since 6 December 2004)
head of government: Prime Minister Morgan TSVANGIRAI (since 11 February 2009); Deputy Prime Minister Arthur MUTAMBARA
cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president; responsible to the House of Assembly
elections: presidential candidates nominated with a nomination paper signed by at least 10 registered voters (at least one from each province) and elected by popular vote for a five-year term (no term limits); elections last held 28 March 2008 followed by a run-off on 27 June 2008 (next to be held in 2013); co-vice presidents appointed by the president
election results: Robert Gabriel MUGABE reelected president; percent of vote - Robert Gabriel MUGABE 85.5%, Morgan TSVANGIRAI 9.3%, other 5.2%; note - first round voting results - Morgan TSVANGIRAI 47.9%, Robert Gabriel MUGABE 43.2%, Simba MAKONI 8.3%, other 0.6%; first-round round polls were deemed to be flawed suppressing TSVANGIRAI's results; the 27 June 2008 run-off between MUGABE and TSVANGIRAI were severely flawed and internationally condemned
Legislative branch:
bicameral Parliament consists of a Senate (93 seats - 60 elected by popular vote for a five-year term, 10 provincial governors nominated by the president, 16 traditional chiefs elected by the Council of Chiefs, 2 held by the president and deputy president of the Council of Chiefs, and 5 appointed by the president) and a House of Assembly (210 seats - all elected by popular vote for five-year terms)
elections: last held 28 March 2008 (next to be held in 2013)
election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - MDC 51.6%, ZANU-PF 45.8%, other 2.6%; seats by party - MDC 30, ZANU-PF 30; House of Assembly - percent of vote by party - MDC 51.3%, ZANU-PF 45.8%, other 2.9%; seats by party - MDC 109, ZANU-PF 97, other 4
Judicial branch:
Supreme Court; High Court
Political parties and leaders:
African National Party or ANP [Egypt DZINEMUNHENZVA]; Movement for Democratic Change or MDC [Morgan TSVANGIRAI]; Movement for Democratic Change - Mutambara or MDC-M [splinter faction under Arthur MUTAMBARA]; Peace Action is Freedom for All or PAFA; United Parties [Abel MUZOREWA]; United People's Party or UPP [Daniel SHUMBA]; Zimbabwe African National Union-Ndonga or ZANU-Ndonga [Wilson KUMBULA]; Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front or ZANU-PF [Robert Gabriel MUGABE]; Zimbabwe African Peoples Union or ZAPU [Agrippa MADLELA]; Zimbabwe Youth in Alliance or ZIYA
Political pressure groups and leaders:
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition [Xolani ZITHA]; National Constitutional Assembly or NCA [Lovemore MADHUKU]; Women of Zimbabwe Arise or WOZA [Jenny WILLIAMS]; Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions or ZCTU [Wellington CHIBEBE]
International organization participation:
ACP, AfDB, AU, COMESA, FAO, G-15, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OPCW, PCA, SADC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
Diplomatic representation in the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Machivenyika MAPURANGA
chancery: 1608 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009
telephone: [1] (202) 332-7100
FAX: [1] (202) 483-9326
Diplomatic representation from the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador James D. MCGEE
embassy: 172 Herbert Chitepo Avenue, Harare
mailing address: P. O. Box 3340, Harare
telephone: [263] (4) 250-593 through 250-594
FAX: [263] (4) 796-488, or 722-618
Flag description:
seven equal horizontal bands of green, yellow, red, black, red, yellow, and green with a white isosceles triangle edged in black with its base on the hoist side; a yellow Zimbabwe bird representing the long history of the country is superimposed on a red five-pointed star in the center of the triangle, which symbolizes peace; green symbolizes agriculture, yellow - mineral wealth, red - blood shed to achieve independence, and black stands for the native people
Economy ::Zimbabwe
Economy - overview:
The government of Zimbabwe faces a wide variety of difficult economic problems as it struggles with an unsustainable fiscal deficit, an overvalued official exchange rate, hyperinflation, and bare store shelves. Its 1998-2002 involvement in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo drained hundreds of millions of dollars from the economy. The government's land reform program, characterized by chaos and violence, has badly damaged the commercial farming sector, the traditional source of exports and foreign exchange and the provider of 400,000 jobs, turning Zimbabwe into a net importer of food products. The EU and the US provide food aid on humanitarian grounds. Badly needed support from the IMF has been suspended because of the government's arrears on past loans and the government's unwillingness to enact reforms that would stabilize the economy. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe routinely prints money to fund the budget deficit, causing the official annual inflation rate to rise from 32% in 1998, to 133% in 2004, 585% in 2005, past 1,000% in 2006, and 26,000% in November 2007, and to 11.2 million percent in 2008. Meanwhile, the official exchange rate fell from approximately 1 (revalued) Zimbabwean dollar per US dollar in 2003 to 30,000 per US dollar in September 2007.
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$1.925 billion (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 183 $2.241 billion (2007 est.)
$2.371 billion (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
GDP (official exchange rate):
$10.58 billion
note: hyperinflation and the plunging value of the Zimbabwean dollar makes Zimbabwe's GDP at the official exchange rate a highly inaccurate statistic (2008 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
-14.4% (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 217 -5.6% (2007 est.)
-4.6% (2006 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP):
$200 (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 229 $200 (2007 est.)
$200 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 18.1%
industry: 22.6%
services: 59.3% (2008 est.)
Labor force:
4.039 million (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 89
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 66%
industry: 10%
services: 24% (1996)
Unemployment rate:
80% (2005 est.) country comparison to the world: 198
Population below poverty line:
68% (2004)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2%
highest 10%: 40.4% (1995)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
50.1 (2006) country comparison to the world: 24 50.1 (1995)
Investment (gross fixed):
17.7% of GDP (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 132
Budget:
revenues: $941,600
expenditures: $1.092 million (2008 est.)
Public debt:
265.6% of GDP (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 1 52.3% of GDP (2004 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
14.93 billion% (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 222 12,563% (2007 est.)
Central bank discount rate:
NA% (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 1 975% (31 December 2007)
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
NA% (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 1 578.96% (31 December 2007)
Stock of money:
$NA (31 December 2008)
$14.18 billion (31 December 2007)
note: this number reflects the vastly overvalued official exchange rate of 30,000 Zimbabwe dollars per US dollar; at an unofficial rate of 800,000 Zimbabwe dollars per US dollar, the stock of Zimbabwe dollars would equal only about US$500 million and Zimbabwe's velocity of money (the number of times money turns over in the course of a year) would be nine, in line with the velocity of money for other countries in the region
Stock of quasi money:
$NA (31 December 2008)
$5.349 billion (31 December 2007)
Stock of domestic credit:
$NA (31 December 2008)
$24.91 billion (31 December 2007)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$NA (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 87 $5.333 billion (31 December 2007)
$26.56 billion (31 December 2006)
Agriculture - products:
corn, cotton, tobacco, wheat, coffee, sugarcane, peanuts; sheep, goats, pigs
Industries:
mining (coal, gold, platinum, copper, nickel, tin, clay, numerous metallic and nonmetallic ores), steel; wood products, cement, chemicals, fertilizer, clothing and footwear, foodstuffs, beverages
Industrial production growth rate:
-14.7% (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 168
Electricity - production:
8.89 billion kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 95
Electricity - consumption:
10.89 billion kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 80
Electricity - exports:
32 million kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - imports:
2.691 billion kWh (2007 est.)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 119
Oil - consumption:
13,000 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 143
Oil - exports:
0 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 162
Oil - imports:
13,830 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 131
Oil - proved reserves:
0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 111
Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 108
Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 116
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2008) country comparison to the world: 83
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 108
Natural gas - proved reserves:
0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 117
Current account balance:
-$584.6 million (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 107 -$494.8 million (2007 est.)
Exports:
$1.396 billion (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 140 $1.467 billion (2007 est.)
Exports - commodities:
platinum, cotton, tobacco, gold, ferroalloys, textiles/clothing
Exports - partners:
South Africa 32.1%, Democratic Republic of the Congo 9.7%, Botswana 8.7%, China 5.6%, Zambia 4.8%, Japan 4.5%, Italy 4.4%, US 4.3% (2008)
Imports:
$1.915 billion (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 151 $1.975 billion (2007 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment, other manufactures, chemicals, fuels
Imports - partners:
South Africa 60.1%, China 4.2%, Botswana 3.7% (2008)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$96 million (31 December 2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 148 $117 million (31 December 2007 est.)
Debt - external:
$5.669 billion (31 December 2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 103 $5.155 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
$NA
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
$NA
Exchange rates:
Zimbabwean dollars (ZWD) per US dollar - NA (2008 est.), 30,000 (2007), 162.07 (2006), 77.965 (2005), 5.729 (2004)
note: these are official exchange rates; non-official rates vary significantly
Communications ::Zimbabwe
Telephones - main lines in use:
354,000 (2008) country comparison to the world: 109
Telephones - mobile cellular:
1.655 million (2008) country comparison to the world: 130
Telephone system:
general assessment: system was once one of the best in Africa, but now suffers from poor maintenance; more than 100,000 outstanding requests for connection despite an equally large number of installed but unused main lines
domestic: consists of microwave radio relay links, open-wire lines, radiotelephone communication stations, fixed wireless local loop installations, and a substantial mobile-cellular network; Internet connection is available in Harare and planned for all major towns and for some of the smaller ones
international: country code - 263; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat; 2 international digital gateway exchanges (in Harare and Gweru)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 7, FM 20 (plus 17 repeater stations), shortwave 1 (1998)
Television broadcast stations:
16 (1997)
Internet country code:
.zw
Internet hosts:
29,094 (2009) country comparison to the world: 91
Internet users:
1.421 million (2008) country comparison to the world: 78
Transportation ::Zimbabwe
Airports:
215 (2009) country comparison to the world: 28
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 19
over 3,047 m: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 5
914 to 1,523 m: 9 (2009)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 196
1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
914 to 1,523 m: 119
under 914 m: 74 (2009)
Pipelines:
refined products 270 km (2008)
Railways:
total: 3,077 km country comparison to the world: 55 narrow gauge: 3,077 km 1.067-m gauge (313 km electrified) (2008)
Roadways:
total: 97,267 km country comparison to the world: 45 paved: 18,481 km
unpaved: 78,786 km (2002)
Waterways:
on Lake Kariba (2008)
Ports and terminals:
Binga, Kariba
Military ::Zimbabwe
Military branches:
Zimbabwe Defense Forces (ZDF): Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ), Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) (2009)
Military service age and obligation:
18-24 years of age for compulsory military service; women are eligible to serve (2007)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 3,264,258
females age 16-49: 3,048,049 (2008 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 1,198,727
females age 16-49: 1,436,232 (2009 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 149,592
female: 149,717 (2009 est.)
Military expenditures:
3.8% of GDP (2006) country comparison to the world: 35
Transnational Issues ::Zimbabwe
Disputes - international:
Botswana built electric fences and South Africa has placed military along the border to stem the flow of thousands of Zimbabweans fleeing to find work and escape political persecution; Namibia has supported, and in 2004 Zimbabwe dropped objections to, plans between Botswana and Zambia to build a bridge over the Zambezi River, thereby de facto recognizing a short, but not clearly delimited, Botswana-Zambia boundary in the river
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 2,500 (Democratic Republic of Congo)
IDPs: 569,685 (MUGABE-led political violence, human rights violations, land reform, and economic collapse) (2007)
Trafficking in persons:
current situation: Zimbabwe is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation; large scale migration of Zimbabweans to surrounding countries - as they flee a progressively more desperate situation at home - has increased; rural Zimbabwean men, women, and children are trafficked internally to farms for agricultural labor and domestic servitude and to cities for domestic labor and commercial sexual exploitation; young men and boys are trafficked to South Africa for farm work, often laboring for months in South Africa without pay before "employers" have them arrested and deported as illegal immigrants; young women and girls are lured abroad with false employment offers that result in involuntary domestic servitude or commercial sexual exploitation; men, women, and children from neighboring states are trafficked through Zimbabwe en route to South Africa
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Zimbabwe is on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of human trafficking, and because the absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is significantly increasing; the trafficking situation in the country is worsening as more of the population is made vulnerable by declining socio-economic conditions (2008)
Illicit drugs:
transit point for cannabis and South Asian heroin, mandrax, and methamphetamines en route to South Africa
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Field Listing :: GDP (purchasing power parity)
This entry gives the gross domestic product (GDP) or value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year. A nation's GDP at purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates is the sum value of all goods and services produced in the country valued at prices prevailing in the United States. This is the measure most economists prefer when looking at per-capita welfare and when comparing living conditions or use of resources across countries. The measure is difficult to compute, as a US dollar value has to be assigned to all goods and services in the country regardless of whether these goods and services have a direct equivalent in the United States (for example, the value of an ox-cart or non-US military equipment); as a result, PPP estimates for some countries are based on a small and sometimes different set of goods and services. In addition, many countries do not formally participate in the World Bank's PPP project that calculates these measures, so the resulting GDP estimates for these countries may lack precision. For many developing countries, PPP-based GDP measures are multiples of the official exchange rate (OER) measure. The differences between the OER- and PPP-denominated GDP values for most of the wealthy industrialized countries are generally much smaller. Country Comparison to the World Country
GDP (purchasing power parity)
Afghanistan $22.32 billion (2008 est.) $21.58 billion (2007 est.) $19.25 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Albania $21.86 billion (2008 est.) $20.61 billion (2007 est.) $19.44 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars Albania has an informal, and unreported, sector that may be as large as 50% of official GDP
Algeria $233.5 billion (2008 est.) $225.6 billion (2007 est.) $218.8 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
American Samoa $575.3 million (2007 est.) $510.1 million (2003 est.)
Andorra $3.66 billion (2007) $3.588 billion (2006) $2.77 billion (2005)
Angola $112.8 billion (2008 est.) $100.5 billion (2007 est.) $82.94 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Anguilla $108.9 million (2004 est.)
Antigua and Barbuda $1.639 billion (2008 est.) $1.594 billion (2007 est.) $1.491 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Argentina $575.2 billion (2008 est.) $538.6 billion (2007 est.) $495.5 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Armenia $18.81 billion (2008 est.) $17.62 billion (2007 est.) $15.48 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Aruba $2.258 billion (2005 est.) $2.205 billion (2004 est.)
Australia $802.9 billion (2008 est.) $784.1 billion (2007 est.) $753.9 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Austria $331.2 billion (2008 est.) $324.7 billion (2007 est.) $313.7 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Azerbaijan $77.79 billion (2008 est.) $70.21 billion (2007 est.) $56.17 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Bahamas, The $9.352 billion (2008 est.) $9.495 billion (2007 est.) $9.236 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Bahrain $26.89 billion (2008 est.) $25.29 billion (2007 est.) $23.34 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Bangladesh $226.4 billion (2008 est.) $214 billion (2007 est.) $201.5 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Barbados $5.367 billion (2008 est.) $5.329 billion (2007 est.) $5.159 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Belarus $114.3 billion (2008 est.) $103.9 billion (2007 est.) $96.06 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Belgium $390.2 billion (2008 est.) $386.3 billion (2007 est.) $376.5 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Belize $2.542 billion (2008 est.) $2.468 billion (2007 est.) $2.43 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Benin $12.86 billion (2008 est.) $12.28 billion (2007 est.) $11.75 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Bermuda $4.5 billion (2004 est.)
Bhutan $3.533 billion (2008 est.) $2.91 billion (2007 est.) $2.738 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Bolivia $43.38 billion (2008 est.) $40.88 billion (2007 est.) $39.08 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Bosnia and Herzegovina $29.77 billion (2008 est.) $28.22 billion (2007 est.) $26.62 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars Bosnia has a large informal sector that may be as much as 50% of official GDP
Botswana $27.11 billion (2008 est.) $26.35 billion (2007 est.) $25.23 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Brazil $1.998 trillion (2008 est.) $1.901 trillion (2007 est.) $1.798 trillion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
British Virgin Islands $853.4 million (2004 est.)
Brunei $19.58 billion (2008 est.) $19.96 billion (2007 est.) $19.92 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Bulgaria $93.98 billion (2008 est.) $88.66 billion (2007 est.) $83.48 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Burkina Faso $17.96 billion (2008 est.) $17.11 billion (2007 est.) $16.5 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Burma $55.27 billion (2008 est.) $54.66 billion (2007 est.) $52.87 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Burundi $3.109 billion (2008 est.) $2.976 billion (2007 est.) $2.872 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Cambodia $28.01 billion (2008 est.) $26.67 billion (2007 est.) $24.2 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Cameroon $42.69 billion (2008 est.) $41.33 billion (2007 est.) $39.93 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Canada $1.303 trillion (2008 est.) $1.298 trillion (2007 est.) $1.266 trillion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Cape Verde $1.63 billion (2008 est.) $1.545 billion (2007 est.) $1.446 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Cayman Islands $1.939 billion (2004 est.) $1.922 billion (2003 est.)
Central African Republic $3.184 billion (2008 est.) $3.115 billion (2007 est.) $3.004 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Chad $15.82 billion (2008 est.) $15.85 billion (2007 est.) $15.82 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Chile $245.1 billion (2008 est.) $237.5 billion (2007 est.) $226.8 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
China $7.992 trillion (2008 est.) $7.332 trillion (2007 est.) $6.489 trillion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Christmas Island $NA
Cocos (Keeling) Islands $NA
Colombia $396 billion (2008 est.) $386.7 billion (2007 est.) $359.7 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Comoros $741.7 million (2008 est.) $738 million (2007 est.) $745.5 million (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Congo, Democratic Republic of the $20.76 billion (2008 est.) $19.61 billion (2007 est.) $18.32 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Congo, Republic of the $15.39 billion (2008 est.) $14.46 billion (2007 est.) $14.7 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Cook Islands $183.2 million (2005 est.)
Costa Rica $48.84 billion (2008 est.) $47.6 billion (2007 est.) $44.16 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Cote d'Ivoire $34.12 billion (2008 est.) $33.36 billion (2007 est.) $32.79 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Croatia $82.58 billion (2008 est.) $80.65 billion (2007 est.) $76.44 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Cuba $108.4 billion (2008 est.) $103.9 billion (2007 est.) $96.9 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Cyprus $22.76 billion (2008 est.) $21.94 billion (2007 est.) $21.02 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Czech Republic $264.8 billion (2008 est.) $258.1 billion (2007 est.) $243.2 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Denmark $204.1 billion (2008 est.) $206.6 billion (2007 est.) $203.3 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Djibouti $1.891 billion (2008 est.) $1.786 billion (2007 est.) $1.696 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Dominica $726.3 million (2008 est.) $703.8 million (2007 est.) $691.4 million (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Dominican Republic $78.19 billion (2008 est.) $74.25 billion (2007 est.) $68.43 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Ecuador $108 billion (2008 est.) $101.4 billion (2007 est.) $98.93 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Egypt $444.8 billion (2008 est.) $414.9 billion (2007 est.) $387.4 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
El Salvador $43.73 billion (2008 est.) $42.66 billion (2007 est.) $40.75 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Equatorial Guinea $23 billion (2008 est.) $20.8 billion (2007 est.) $16.98 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Eritrea $3.954 billion (2008 est.) $3.876 billion (2007 est.) $3.838 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Estonia $28.03 billion (2008 est.) $29.08 billion (2007 est.) $27.13 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Ethiopia $70.23 billion (2008 est.) $62.93 billion (2007 est.) $56.64 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
European Union $14.94 trillion (2008 est.) $14.82 trillion (2007 est.) $14.39 trillion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) $105.1 million (2002 est.)
Faroe Islands $1 billion (2001 est.)
Fiji $3.587 billion (2008 est.) $3.58 billion (2007 est.) $3.833 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Finland $194 billion (2008 est.) $192.4 billion (2007 est.) $184.8 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
France $2.133 trillion (2008 est.) $2.126 trillion (2007 est.) $2.078 trillion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
French Polynesia $4.718 billion (2004 est.) $4.58 billion (2003 est.)
Gabon $21.16 billion (2008 est.) $20.74 billion (2007 est.) $19.64 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Gambia, The $2.277 billion (2008 est.) $2.15 billion (2007 est.) $2.023 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Gaza Strip $11.95 billion (2008 est.) $5.034 billion (2006 est.) $5.327 billion (2005 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Georgia $21.56 billion (2008 est.) $21.12 billion (2007 est.) $18.81 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Germany $2.925 trillion (2008 est.) $2.887 trillion (2007 est.) $2.817 trillion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Ghana $34.52 billion (2008 est.) $32.17 billion (2007 est.) $30.27 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Gibraltar $1.066 billion (2005 est.) $769 million (2000 est.)
Greece $343.8 billion (2008 est.) $334.1 billion (2007 est.) $321.3 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Greenland $1.1 billion (2001 est.)
Grenada $1.19 billion (2008 est.) $1.165 billion (2007 est.) $1.11 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Guam $2.5 billion (2005 est.)
Guatemala $68.75 billion (2008 est.) $66.1 billion (2007 est.) $62.18 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Guernsey $2.742 billion (2005)
Guinea $10.62 billion (2008 est.) $10.17 billion (2007 est.) $10.02 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Guinea-Bissau $896.5 million (2008 est.) $867.9 million (2007 est.) $845.1 million (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Guyana $2.973 billion (2008 est.) $2.887 billion (2007 est.) $2.739 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Haiti $11.53 billion (2008 est.) $11.38 billion (2007 est.) $11 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Holy See (Vatican City) $NA
Honduras $33.8 billion (2008 est.) $32.5 billion (2007 est.) $30.57 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Hong Kong $307.3 billion (2008 est.) $300.1 billion (2007 est.) $282.1 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Hungary $196.7 billion (2008 est.) $195.5 billion (2007 est.) $193.2 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Iceland $12.87 billion (2008 est.) $12.7 billion (2007 est.) $12.03 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
India $3.304 trillion (2008 est.) $3.077 trillion (2007 est.) $2.823 trillion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Indonesia $916.7 billion (2008 est.) $864 billion (2007 est.) $812.8 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Iran $843.7 billion (2008 est.) $792.2 billion (2007 est.) $734.7 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Iraq $90.23 billion (2008 est.) $83.7 billion (2007 est.) $82.46 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Ireland $189 billion (2008 est.) $194.9 billion (2007 est.) $183.9 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Isle of Man $2.719 billion (2005 est.)
Israel $203.4 billion (2008 est.) $195.2 billion (2007 est.) $185.6 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Italy $1.827 trillion (2008 est.) $1.845 trillion (2007 est.) $1.818 trillion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Jamaica $24.04 billion (2008 est.) $24.19 billion (2007 est.) $23.85 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Japan $4.34 trillion (2008 est.) $4.37 trillion (2007 est.) $4.272 trillion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Jersey $5.1 billion (2005 est.)
Jordan $31.68 billion (2008 est.) $30 billion (2007 est.) $28.14 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Kazakhstan $176.2 billion (2008 est.) $172.1 billion (2007 est.) $158.6 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Kenya $61.65 billion (2008 est.) $60.62 billion (2007 est.) $56.68 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Kiribati $580.8 million (2008 est.) $561.7 million (2007 est.) $564.6 million (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Korea, North $40 billion (2008 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Korea, South $1.338 trillion (2008 est.) $1.309 trillion (2007 est.) $1.245 trillion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Kosovo $5 billion (2007 est.)
Kuwait $149.5 billion (2008 est.) $137.8 billion (2007 est.) $131.6 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Kyrgyzstan $11.64 billion (2008 est.) $10.82 billion (2007 est.) $9.971 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Laos $14.01 billion (2008 est.) $13.04 billion (2007 est.) $12.13 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Latvia $38.95 billion (2008 est.) $40.83 billion (2007 est.) $37.12 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Lebanon $44.16 billion (2008 est.) $41.54 billion (2007 est.) $39.95 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Lesotho $3.301 billion (2008 est.) $3.091 billion (2007 est.) $2.949 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Liberia $1.531 billion (2008 est.) $1.43 billion (2007 est.) $1.306 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Libya $87.72 billion (2008 est.) $82.83 billion (2007 est.) $78.44 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Liechtenstein $4.16 billion (2007) $4.035 billion (2006 est.)
Lithuania $63.37 billion (2008 est.) $61.52 billion (2007 est.) $56.49 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Luxembourg $39.47 billion (2008 est.) $39.84 billion (2007 est.) $37.87 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Macau $18.14 billion (2008 est.) $12.5 billion (2006) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Macedonia $18.83 billion (2008 est.) $17.88 billion (2007 est.) $16.88 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars Macedonia has a large informal sector
Madagascar $20.18 billion (2008 est.) $18.86 billion (2007 est.) $17.76 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Malawi $11.95 billion (2008 est.) $10.9 billion (2007 est.) $10.1 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Malaysia $385.2 billion (2008 est.) $368.3 billion (2007 est.) $346.8 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Maldives $1.723 billion (2008 est.) $1.628 billion (2007 est.) $1.519 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Mali $14.75 billion (2008 est.) $14.04 billion (2007 est.) $13.65 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Malta $9.933 billion (2008 est.) $9.707 billion (2007 est.) $9.317 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Marshall Islands $133.5 million (2008 est.) $115 million (2001 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Mauritania $6.323 billion (2008 est.) $6.109 billion (2007 est.) $6.048 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Mauritius $15.43 billion (2008 est.) $14.65 billion (2007 est.) $13.89 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Mayotte $953.6 million (2005 est.)
Mexico $1.567 trillion (2008 est.) $1.547 trillion (2007 est.) $1.498 trillion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Micronesia, Federated States of $238.1 million (2008 est.) $277 million (2002 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars GDP supplemented by grant aid, averaging perhaps $100 million annually
Moldova $10.8 billion (2008 est.) $10.07 billion (2007 est.) $9.684 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Monaco $976.3 million (2006 est.) note: Monaco does not publish national income figures; the estimates are extremely rough
Mongolia $9.499 billion (2008 est.) $8.714 billion (2007 est.) $7.929 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Montenegro $6.832 billion (2008 est.) $6.355 billion (2007 est.) $5.804 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Montserrat $29 million (2002 est.)
Morocco $137.9 billion (2008 est.) $129.9 billion (2007 est.) $125.9 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Mozambique $19.11 billion (2008 est.) $17.89 billion (2007 est.) $16.66 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Namibia $13.28 billion (2008 est.) $12.9 billion (2007 est.) $12.23 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Nauru $60 million (2005 est.)
Nepal $31.39 billion (2008 est.) $29.81 billion (2007 est.) $28.86 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Netherlands $673.5 billion (2008 est.) $660.3 billion (2007 est.) $637.4 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Netherlands Antilles $2.8 billion (2004 est.)
New Caledonia $3.158 billion (2003 est.)
New Zealand $116.6 billion (2008 est.) $116.6 billion (2007 est.) $113 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Nicaragua $16.83 billion (2008 est.) $16.31 billion (2007 est.) $15.8 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Niger $10.29 billion (2008 est.) $9.398 billion (2007 est.) $9.097 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Nigeria $336.2 billion (2008 est.) $319.3 billion (2007 est.) $300.1 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Niue $10.01 million (2003 est.)
Norfolk Island $NA
Northern Mariana Islands $900 million (2000 est.) note: GDP estimate includes US subsidy
Norway $276.3 billion (2008 est.) $269.6 billion (2007 est.) $253.8 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Oman $66.87 billion (2008 est.) $62.84 billion (2007 est.) $59.4 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Pakistan $431.2 billion (2008 est.) $417 billion (2007 est.) $393.4 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Palau $164 million (2008 est.) $124.5 million (2004 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars GDP estimate includes US subsidy
Panama $38.92 billion (2008 est.) $35.64 billion (2007 est.) $31.96 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Papua New Guinea $13.17 billion (2008 est.) $12.3 billion (2007 est.) $11.65 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Paraguay $28.95 billion (2008 est.) $27.37 billion (2007 est.) $25.62 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Peru $247.9 billion (2008 est.) $225.8 billion (2007 est.) $207.3 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Philippines $318.2 billion (2008 est.) $306.6 billion (2007 est.) $286.2 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Pitcairn Islands $NA
Poland $670.7 billion (2008 est.) $638.8 billion (2007 est.) $598.1 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Portugal $237.3 billion (2008 est.) $237.3 billion (2007 est.) $232.9 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Puerto Rico $70.23 billion (2008 est.) $72.03 billion (2007 est.) $73.35 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Qatar $91.55 billion (2008 est.) $80.73 billion (2007 est.) $68.82 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Romania $272 billion (2008 est.) $254 billion (2007 est.) $239.2 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Russia $2.271 trillion (2008 est.) $2.151 trillion (2007 est.) $1.99 trillion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Rwanda $9.729 billion (2008 est.) $8.749 billion (2007 est.) $8.108 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Saint Helena $18 million (1998 est.)
Saint Kitts and Nevis $759.5 million (2008 est.) $742 million (2007 est.) $735.8 million (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Saint Lucia $1.774 billion (2008 est.) $1.762 billion (2007 est.) $1.733 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Saint Pierre and Miquelon $48.3 million (2003 est.) note: supplemented by annual payments from France of about $60 million
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines $1.072 billion (2008 est.) $1.063 billion (2007 est.) $993.4 million (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Samoa $1.021 billion (2008 est.) $1.057 billion (2007 est.) $996.5 million (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
San Marino $1.662 billion (2007) $850 million (2004 est.)
Sao Tome and Principe $277.1 million (2008 est.) $262.7 million (2007 est.) $247.8 million (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Saudi Arabia $577.9 billion (2008 est.) $553.5 billion (2007 est.) $535.8 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Senegal $21.78 billion (2008 est.) $21.25 billion (2007 est.) $20.27 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Serbia $79.77 billion (2008 est.) $75.68 billion (2007 est.) $70.8 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Seychelles $1.821 billion (2008 est.) $1.838 billion (2007 est.) $1.675 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Sierra Leone $4.388 billion (2008 est.) $4.159 billion (2007 est.) $3.909 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Singapore $237.9 billion (2008 est.) $235.3 billion (2007 est.) $218.3 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Slovakia $119.8 billion (2008 est.) $112.6 billion (2007 est.) $102 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Slovenia $59.49 billion (2008 est.) $57.47 billion (2007 est.) $53.81 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Solomon Islands $1.546 billion (2008 est.) $1.441 billion (2007 est.) $1.306 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Somalia $5.524 billion (2008 est.) $5.387 billion (2007 est.) $5.252 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
South Africa $492.2 billion (2008 est.) $477.4 billion (2007 est.) $454.2 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Spain $1.402 trillion (2008 est.) $1.39 trillion (2007 est.) $1.341 trillion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Sri Lanka $92.09 billion (2008 est.) $86.88 billion (2007 est.) $81.35 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Sudan $88.37 billion (2008 est.) $82.9 billion (2007 est.) $75.22 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Suriname $4.226 billion (2008 est.) $3.987 billion (2007 est.) $3.779 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Svalbard $NA
Swaziland $5.826 billion (2008 est.) $5.673 billion (2007 est.) $5.481 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Sweden $345.1 billion (2008 est.) $346.5 billion (2007 est.) $337.4 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Switzerland $318.1 billion (2008 est.) $312.4 billion (2007 est.) $301.6 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Syria $99.06 billion (2008 est.) $94.26 billion (2007 est.) $88.65 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Taiwan $713.7 billion (2008 est.) $713 billion (2007 est.) $674.5 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Tajikistan $13.19 billion (2008 est.) $12.22 billion (2007 est.) $11.34 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Tanzania $54.38 billion (2008 est.) $50.77 billion (2007 est.) $47.38 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Thailand $548.7 billion (2008 est.) $534.8 billion (2007 est.) $509.8 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Timor-Leste $2.526 billion (2008 est.) $2.239 billion (2007 est.) $2.066 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Togo $5.13 billion (2008 est.) $5.074 billion (2007 est.) $4.98 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Tokelau $1.5 million (1993 est.)
Tonga $548.1 million (2008 est.) $543.7 million (2007 est.) $545.4 million (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Trinidad and Tobago $29.09 billion (2008 est.) $28.11 billion (2007 est.) $26.65 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Tunisia $81.98 billion (2008 est.) $78.53 billion (2007 est.) $73.67 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Turkey $903.9 billion (2008 est.) $895.8 billion (2007 est.) $855.6 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Turkmenistan $31.28 billion (2008 est.) $28.49 billion (2007 est.) $25.53 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Turks and Caicos Islands $216 million (2002 est.)
Tuvalu $14.94 million (2002 est.)
Uganda $40.08 billion (2008 est.) $37 billion (2007 est.) $34.21 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Ukraine $338.6 billion (2008 est.) $331.6 billion (2007 est.) $307.4 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
United Arab Emirates $206.3 billion (2008 est.) $192 billion (2007 est.) $181.2 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
United Kingdom $2.236 trillion (2008 est.) $2.22 trillion (2007 est.) $2.164 trillion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
United States $14.44 trillion (2008 est.) $14.38 trillion (2007 est.) $14.09 trillion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Uruguay $43.27 billion (2008 est.) $39.73 billion (2007 est.) $36.99 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Uzbekistan $71.84 billion (2008 est.) $65.91 billion (2007 est.) $60.19 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Vanuatu $990.8 million (2008 est.) $929.5 million (2007 est.) $870.3 million (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Venezuela $356.3 billion (2008 est.) $340 billion (2007 est.) $314.2 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Vietnam $242.3 billion (2008 est.) $228.1 billion (2007 est.) $210.3 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Virgin Islands $1.577 billion (2004 est.)
Wallis and Futuna $60 million (2004 est.)
West Bank $11.95 billion (2008 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Western Sahara $900 million (2007 est.)
World $70.14 trillion (2008 est.) $68.08 trillion (2007 est.) $64.77 trillion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Yemen $55.41 billion (2008 est.) $53.69 billion (2007 est.) $51.87 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Zambia $17.54 billion (2008 est.) $16.55 billion (2007 est.) $15.58 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Zimbabwe $1.925 billion (2008 est.) $2.241 billion (2007 est.) $2.371 billion (2006 est.) note: data are in 2008 US dollars
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@2002
Field Listing :: Population growth rate
The average annual percent change in the population, resulting from a surplus (or deficit) of births over deaths and the balance of migrants entering and leaving a country. The rate may be positive or negative. The growth rate is a factor in determining how great a burden would be imposed on a country by the changing needs of its people for infrastructure (e.g., schools, hospitals, housing, roads), resources (e.g., food, water, electricity), and jobs. Rapid population growth can be seen as threatening by neighboring countries. Country Comparison to the World Country
Population growth rate(%)
Afghanistan 2.629% (2009 est.)
Albania 0.546% (2009 est.)
Algeria 1.196% (2009 est.)
American Samoa 1.222% (2009 est.)
Andorra 1.135% (2009 est.)
Angola 2.095% (2009 est.)
Anguilla 2.272% (2009 est.)
Antigua and Barbuda 1.303% (2009 est.)
Argentina 1.053% (2009 est.)
Armenia -0.03% (2009 est.)
Aruba 1.478% (2009 est.)
Australia 1.195% (2009 est.)
Austria 0.052% (2009 est.)
Azerbaijan 0.762% (2009 est.)
Bahamas, The 0.536% (2009 est.)
Bahrain 1.285% (2009 est.)
Bangladesh 1.292% (2009 est.)
Barbados 0.383% (2009 est.)
Belarus -0.378% (2009 est.)
Belgium 0.094% (2009 est.)
Belize 2.154% (2009 est.)
Benin 2.977% (2009 est.)
Bermuda 0.647% (2009 est.)
Bhutan 1.267% (2009 est.)
Bolivia 1.772% (2009 est.)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.339% (2009 est.)
Botswana 1.937% (2009 est.)
Brazil 1.199% (2009 est.)
British Virgin Islands 1.837% (2009 est.)
Brunei 1.759% (2009 est.)
Bulgaria -0.79% (2009 est.)
Burkina Faso 3.103% (2009 est.)
Burma 0.783% (2009 est.)
Burundi 3.279% (2009 est.)
Cambodia 1.765% (2009 est.)
Cameroon 2.19% (2009 est.)
Canada 0.817% (2009 est.)
Cape Verde 0.561% (2009 est.)
Cayman Islands 2.394% (2009 est.)
Central African Republic 1.491% (2009 est.)
Chad 2.069% (2009 est.)
Chile 0.881% (2009 est.)
China 0.655% (2009 est.)
Christmas Island 0% (2009 est.)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 0% (2009 est.)
Colombia 1.377% (2009 est.)
Comoros 2.766% (2009 est.)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 3.208% (2009 est.)
Congo, Republic of the 2.754% (2009 est.)
Cook Islands -3.302% (2009 est.)
Costa Rica 1.356% (2009 est.)
Cote d'Ivoire 2.133% (2009 est.)
Croatia -0.052% (2009 est.)
Cuba 0.233% (2009 est.)
Cyprus 0.519% (2009 est.)
Czech Republic -0.094% (2009 est.)
Denmark 0.28% (2009 est.)
Djibouti 1.903% (2009 est.)
Dominica 0.208% (2009 est.)
Dominican Republic 1.489% (2009 est.)
Ecuador 1.497% (2009 est.)
Egypt 1.642% (2009 est.)
El Salvador 1.656% (2009 est.)
Equatorial Guinea 2.703% (2009 est.)
Eritrea 2.577% (2009 est.)
Estonia -0.632% (2009 est.)
Ethiopia 3.208% (2009 est.)
European Union 0.108 % (2009 est.)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 0.011% (2009 est.)
Faroe Islands 0.397% (2009 est.)
Fiji 1.379% (2009 est.)
Finland 0.098% (2009 est.)
France 0.549% (2009 est.)
French Polynesia 1.391% (2009 est.)
Gabon 1.934% (2009 est.)
Gambia, The 2.668% (2009 est.)
Gaza Strip 3.349% (2009 est.)
Georgia -0.325% (2009 est.)
Germany -0.053% (2009 est.)
Ghana 1.882% (2009 est.)
Gibraltar 0.111% (2009 est.)
Greece 0.127% (2009 est.)
Greenland 0.062% (2009 est.)
Grenada 0.468% (2009 est.)
Guam 1.365% (2009 est.)
Guatemala 2.066% (2009 est.)
Guernsey 0.21% (2009 est.)
Guinea 2.572% (2009 est.)
Guinea-Bissau 2.019% (2009 est.)
Guyana 0.181% (2009 est.)
Haiti 1.838% (2009 est.)
Holy See (Vatican City) 0.003% (2009 est.)
Honduras 1.956% (2009 est.)
Hong Kong 0.504% (2009 est.)
Hungary -0.257% (2009 est.)
Iceland 0.741% (2009 est.)
India 1.548% (2009 est.)
Indonesia 1.136% (2009 est.)
Iran 0.883% (2009 est.)
Iraq 2.507% (2009 est.)
Ireland 1.12% (2009 est.)
Isle of Man 0.524% (2009 est.)
Israel 1.671% (2009 est.)
Italy -0.047% (2009 est.)
Jamaica 0.755% (2009 est.)
Japan -0.191% (2009 est.)
Jersey 0.211% (2009 est.)
Jordan 2.264% (2009 est.)
Kazakhstan 0.392% (2009 est.)
Kenya 2.691% (2009 est.)
Kiribati 2.235% (2009 est.)
Korea, North 0.42% (2009 est.)
Korea, South 0.266% (2009 est.)
Kuwait 3.547% note: this rate reflects a return to pre-Gulf crisis immigration of expatriates (2009 est.)
Kyrgyzstan 1.396% (2009 est.)
Laos 2.316% (2009 est.)
Latvia -0.614% (2009 est.)
Lebanon 1.107% (2009 est.)
Lesotho 0.116% (2009 est.)
Liberia 2.665% (2009 est.)
Libya 2.17% (2009 est.)
Liechtenstein 0.702% (2009 est.)
Lithuania -0.279% (2009 est.)
Luxembourg 1.172% (2009 est.)
Macau 1.995% (2009 est.)
Macedonia 0.262% (2009 est.)
Madagascar 3% (2009 est.)
Malawi 2.388% (2009 est.)
Malaysia 1.723% (2009 est.)
Maldives -0.168% (2009 est.)
Mali 2.765% (2009 est.)
Malta 0.4% (2009 est.)
Marshall Islands 2.08% (2009 est.)
Mauritania 2.399% (2009 est.)
Mauritius 0.776% (2009 est.)
Mayotte 3.317% (2009 est.)
Mexico 1.13% (2009 est.)
Micronesia, Federated States of -0.238% (2009 est.)
Moldova -0.079% (2009 est.)
Monaco 0.394% (2009 est.)
Mongolia 1.493% (2009 est.)
Montenegro -0.851% (2009 est.)
Montserrat 0.392% (2009 est.)
Morocco 1.479% (2009 est.)
Mozambique 1.791% (2009 est.)
Namibia 0.95% (2009 est.)
Nauru 1.748% (2009 est.)
Nepal 1.281% (2009 est.)
Netherlands 0.412% (2009 est.)
Netherlands Antilles 0.732% (2009 est.)
New Caledonia 1.136% (2009 est.)
New Zealand 0.935% (2009 est.)
Nicaragua 1.784% (2009 est.)
Niger 3.677% (2009 est.)
Nigeria 1.999% (2009 est.)
Niue -0.032% (2009 est.)
Norfolk Island 0.006% (2009 est.)
Northern Mariana Islands 2.292% (2009 est.)
Norway 0.341% (2009 est.)
Oman 3.138% (2009 est.)
Pakistan 1.947% (2009 est.)
Palau 0.428% (2009 est.)
Panama 1.503% (2009 est.)
Papua New Guinea 2.069% (2009 est.)
Paraguay 2.364% (2009 est.)
Peru 1.229% (2009 est.)
Philippines 1.957% (2009 est.)
Pitcairn Islands 0% (2009 est.)
Poland -0.047% (2009 est.)
Portugal 0.275% (2009 est.)
Puerto Rico 0.34% (2009 est.)
Qatar 0.957% (2009 est.)
Romania -0.147% (2009 est.)
Russia -0.467% (2009 est.)
Rwanda 2.782% (2009 est.)
Saint Helena 0.445% (2009 est.)
Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.847% (2009 est.)
Saint Lucia 0.416% (2009 est.)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0.085% (2009 est.)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines -0.344% (2009 est.)
Samoa 1.346% (2009 est.)
San Marino 1.148% (2009 est.)
Sao Tome and Principe 3.093% (2009 est.)
Saudi Arabia 1.848% (2009 est.)
Senegal 2.709% (2009 est.)
Serbia -0.468% (2009 est.)
Seychelles 0.999% (2009 est.)
Sierra Leone 2.282% (2009 est.)
Singapore 0.998% (2009 est.)
Slovakia 0.137% (2009 est.)
Slovenia -0.113% (2009 est.)
Solomon Islands 2.392% (2009 est.)
Somalia 2.815% (2009 est.)
South Africa 0.281% (2009 est.)
Spain 0.072% (2009 est.)
Sri Lanka 0.904% (2009 est.)
Sudan 2.143% (2009 est.)
Suriname 1.103% (2009 est.)
Svalbard -0.023% (2009 est.)
Swaziland -0.459% (2009 est.)
Sweden 0.158% (2009 est.)
Switzerland 0.276% (2009 est.)
Syria 2.129% (2009 est.)
Taiwan 0.227% (2009 est.)
Tajikistan 1.878% (2009 est.)
Tanzania 2.04% (2009 est.)
Thailand 0.615% (2009 est.)
Timor-Leste 2.027% (2009 est.)
Togo 2.711% (2009 est.)
Tokelau -0.011% (2009 est.)
Tonga 1.482% (2009 est.)
Trinidad and Tobago -0.102% (2009 est.)
Tunisia 0.98% (2009 est.)
Turkey 1.312% (2009 est.)
Turkmenistan 1.141% (2009 est.)
Turks and Caicos Islands 2.563% (2009 est.)
Tuvalu 1.616% (2009 est.)
Uganda 2.692% (2009 est.)
Ukraine -0.632% (2009 est.)
United Arab Emirates 3.689% (2009 est.)
United Kingdom 0.279% (2009 est.)
United States 0.975% (2009 est.)
Uruguay 0.466% (2009 est.)
Uzbekistan 0.935% (2009 est.)
Vanuatu 1.398% (2009 est.)
Venezuela 1.508% (2009 est.)
Vietnam 0.977% (2009 est.)
Virgin Islands -0.029% (2009 est.)
Wallis and Futuna 0.347% (2009 est.)
West Bank 2.178% (2009 est.)
Western Sahara 2.829% NA (2009 est.)
World 1.167% (2009 est.)
Yemen 3.453% (2009 est.)
Zambia 1.631% (2009 est.)
Zimbabwe 1.53% (2009 est.)
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@2003
Field Listing :: GDP - real growth rate
This entry gives GDP growth on an annual basis adjusted for inflation and expressed as a percent. Country Comparison to the World Country
GDP - real growth rate(%)
Afghanistan 3.4% (2008 est.) 12.1% (2007 est.) 8.2% (2006 est.)
Albania 6.1% (2008 est.) 6% (2007 est.) 5.5% (2006 est.)
Algeria 3.5% (2008 est.) 3.1% (2007 est.) 2.1% (2006 est.)
American Samoa 3% (2003)
Andorra 2% (2007 est.) 3.5% (2005 est.)
Angola 12.3% (2008 est.) 21.1% (2007 est.) 18.6% (2006 est.)
Anguilla 10.2% (2004 est.)
Antigua and Barbuda 2.8% (2008 est.) 6.9% (2007 est.) 12.4% (2006 est.)
Argentina 6.8% (2008 est.) 8.7% (2007 est.) 8.5% (2006 est.)
Armenia 6.8% (2008 est.) 13.8% (2007 est.) 13.2% (2006 est.)
Aruba 2.4% (2005 est.)
Australia 2.4% (2008 est.) 4% (2007 est.) 2.8% (2006 est.)
Austria 2% (2008 est.) 3.5% (2007 est.) 3.5% (2006 est.)
Azerbaijan 10.8% (2008 est.) 25% (2007 est.) 34.5% (2006 est.)
Bahamas, The -1.5% (2008 est.) 2.8% (2007 est.) 4.6% (2006 est.)
Bahrain 6.3% (2008 est.) 8.4% (2007 est.) 6.7% (2006 est.)
Bangladesh 5.8% (2008 est.) 6.2% (2007 est.) 6.4% (2006 est.)
Barbados 0.7% (2008 est.) 3.3% (2007 est.) 3.9% (2006 est.)
Belarus 10% (2008 est.) 8.2% (2007 est.) 9.9% (2006 est.)
Belgium 1% (2008 est.) 2.6% (2007 est.) 3% (2006 est.)