ACOG - Liechtenstein  - IBM

Geography

Location: Central Europe, between Austria and Switzerland

Area:
total area: 160 sq km
land area: 160 sq km
comparative area: about 0.9 times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: total 78 km, Austria 37 km, Switzerland 41 km

Coastline: 0 km


People

Population: 30,654 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 19% (female 2,897; male 2,974)
15-64 years: 71% (female 10,853; male 10,777)
65 years and over: 10% (female 1,930; male 1,223)

Population growth rate: 1.2% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 12.95 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 6.56 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 5.58 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 5.3 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 77.52 years
male: 73.86 years
female: 81.17 years

Total fertility rate: 1.47 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Alemannic 95%, Italian and other 5%

Religions: Roman Catholic 87.3%, Protestant 8.3%, unknown 1.6%, other 2.8% (1988)

Languages: German (official), Alemannic dialect

Literacy: age 10 and over can read and write (1981)
total population: 100%
male: 100%
female: 100%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Principality of Liechtenstein
conventional short form: Liechtenstein

Type: hereditary constitutional monarchy

Capital: Vaduz

Independence: 23 January 1719 (Imperial Principality of Liechtenstein established)

Constitution: 5 October 1921


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $630 million

National product real growth rate:

National product per capita: $22,300

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.4%

Unemployment rate: 1.5%

Electricity:
capacity: 23,000 kW
production: 150 million kWh
consumption per capita: 5,230 kWh



Olympic Factoid
More tickets were sold to the competitions of the 1996 Games than to any other Olympic Games or sports event in history. The 8.6 million ticket sales figures topped sales to the Los Angeles and Barcelona Games combined.