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Geography

Location: Caribbean, eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Haiti

Area:
total area: 48,730 sq km
land area: 48,380 sq km
comparative area: slightly more than twice the size of New Hampshire

Land boundaries: total 275 km, Haiti 275 km

Coastline: 1,288 km


People

Population: 7,511,263 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 35% (female 1,288,210; male 1,336,162)
15-64 years: 61% (female 2,246,791; male 2,312,555)
65 years and over: 4% (female 178,388; male 149,157)

Population growth rate: 1.17% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 23.92 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 6.15 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -6.04 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 49.5 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 68.73 years
male: 66.57 years
female: 70.99 years

Total fertility rate: 2.72 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: white 16%, black 11%, mixed 73%

Religions: Roman Catholic 95%

Languages: Spanish

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
total population: 83%
male: 85%
female: 82%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Dominican Republic
conventional short form: none

Type: republic

Capital: Santo Domingo

Independence: 27 February 1844 (from Haiti)

Constitution: 28 November 1966


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $24 billion

National product real growth rate: 2.9%

National product per capita: $3,070

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 14%

Unemployment rate: 30%

Electricity:
capacity: 1,450,000 kW
production: 5.4 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 651 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.