ACOG - Republic of Moldova   - IBM

Geography

Location: Eastern Europe, northeast of Romania

Area:
total area: 33,700 sq km
land area: 33,700 sq km
comparative area: slightly more than twice the size of Hawaii

Land boundaries: total 1,389 km, Romania 450 km, Ukraine 939 km

Coastline: 0 km


People

Population: 4,489,657 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 27% (female 588,155; male 609,372)
15-64 years: 64% (female 1,487,170; male 1,386,293)
65 years and over: 9% (female 258,958; male 159,709)

Population growth rate: 0.36% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 15.93 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 10.05 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -2.25 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 29.8 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 68.22 years
male: 64.81 years
female: 71.8 years

Total fertility rate: 2.16 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Moldavian/Romanian 64.5%, Ukrainian 13.8%, Russian 13%, Gagauz 3.5%,Jewish 1.5%, Bulgarian 2%, other 1.7% (1989 figures)

Religions: Eastern Orthodox 98.5%, Jewish 1.5%, Baptist (only about 1,000 members) (1991)

Languages: Moldovan (official; virtually the same as the Romanian language), Russian, Gagauz (a Turkish dialect)

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1989)
total population: 96%
male: 99%
female: 94%


Government

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

Type: republic

Capital: Chisinau

Independence: 27 August 1991 (from Soviet Union)

Constitution: new constitution adopted NA July 1994; replaces old Soviet constitutionof 1979


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $11.9 billion

National product real growth rate: -30%

National product per capita: $2,670

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 7.6%

Unemployment rate: 1%

Electricity:
capacity: 3,000,000 kW
production: 8.2 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,830 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The Mother Nature was kind to Olympic athletes and spectators. The average high temperature during the Games was 89 degrees with an average low of 72 degrees. Highest temperature registered (20 July) - 99 degrees. Lowest high temperature registered is 79 degrees (28 July).