ACOG - Somalia  - IBM

Geography

Location: Eastern Africa, bordering the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, east of Ethiopia

Area:
total area: 637,660 sq km
land area: 627,340 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Texas

Land boundaries: total 2,366 km, Djibouti 58 km, Ethiopia 1,626 km, Kenya 682 km

Coastline: 3,025 km


People

Population: 7,347,554 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 45% (female 1,653,175; male 1,650,377)
15-64 years: 51% (female 1,845,886; male 1,932,012)
65 years and over: 4% (female 138,264; male 127,840)

Population growth rate: 15.58% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 45.53 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 13.3 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 123.62 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 119.5 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 55.74 years
male: 55.48 years
female: 56 years

Total fertility rate: 7.13 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Somali 85%, Bantu, Arabs 30,000

Religions: Sunni Muslim

Languages: Somali (official), Arabic, Italian, English

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
total population: 24%
male: 36%
female: 14%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Somalia

Type: none

Capital: Mogadishu

Independence: 1 July 1960 (from a merger of British Somaliland, which became independent from the UK on 26 June 1960, and Italian Somaliland, which became independentfrom the Italian-administered UN trusteeship on 1 July 1960, to form theSomali Republic)

Constitution: 25 August 1979, presidential approval 23 September 1979


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $3.3 billion

National product real growth rate:

National product per capita: $500

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

Unemployment rate:

Electricity:
capacity:
production: NA kWh
consumption per capita:



Olympic Factoid
The volunteer staff of the 1996 Olympic Games totaled 50,152. They worked an estimated 850,000 shifts.