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Geography

Location: Central Europe, east of Germany

Area:
total area: 312,680 sq km
land area: 304,510 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than New Mexico

Land boundaries: total 3,114 km, Belarus 605 km, Czech Republic 658 km, Germany 456km, Lithuania 91 km, Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast) 432 km, Slovakia 444 km, Ukraine 428 km

Coastline: 491 km


People

Population: 38,792,442 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 23% (female 4,349,467; male 4,559,536)
15-64 years: 66% (female 12,849,300; male 12,698,179)
65 years and over: 11% (female 2,693,407; male 1,642,553)

Population growth rate: 0.36% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 13.34 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 9.23 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -0.52 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 12.4 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 73.13 years
male: 69.15 years
female: 77.33 years

Total fertility rate: 1.92 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Polish 97.6%, German 1.3%, Ukrainian 0.6%, Byelorussian 0.5% (1990est.)

Religions: Roman Catholic 95% (about 75% practicing), Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, and other 5%

Languages: Polish

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1978)
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 98%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Poland
conventional short form: Poland

Type: democratic state

Capital: Warsaw

Independence: 11 November 1918 (independent republic proclaimed)

Constitution: interim "small constitution" came into effect in December 1992 replacing the Communist-imposed constitution of 22 July 1952; new democratic constitutionbeing drafted


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $191.1 billion

National product real growth rate: 5.5%

National product per capita: $4,920

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 30%

Unemployment rate: 16.1%

Electricity:
capacity: 31,120,000 kW
production: 124 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 2,908 kWh



Olympic Factoid
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