ACOG - Malaysia  - IBM

Geography

Location: Southeastern Asia, peninsula and northern one-third of the island of Borneo bordering the Java Sea and the South China Sea, south of Vietnam

Area:
total area: 329,750 sq km
land area: 328,550 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than New Mexico

Land boundaries: total 2,669 km, Brunei 381 km, Indonesia 1,782 km, Thailand 506 km

Coastline: 4,675 km


People

Population: 19,723,587 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 37% (female 3,559,434; male 3,690,310)
15-64 years: 59% (female 5,871,131; male 5,844,568)
65 years and over: 4% (female 423,539; male 334,605)

Population growth rate: 2.24% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 27.95 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 5.56 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 24.7 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 69.48 years
male: 66.55 years
female: 72.56 years

Total fertility rate: 3.47 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Malay and other indigenous 59%, Chinese 32%, Indian 9%

Religions:

Languages:

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
total population: 78%
male: 86%
female: 70%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Malaysia

Type: constitutional monarchy

Capital: Kuala Lumpur

Independence: 31 August 1957 (from UK)

Constitution: 31 August 1957, amended 16 September 1963


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $166.8 billion

National product real growth rate: 8.7%

National product per capita: $8,650

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.7%

Unemployment rate: 2.9%

Electricity:
capacity: 6,700,000 kW
production: 31 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,528 kWh



Olympic Factoid
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