ACOG - United Arab Emirates - IBM

Geography

Location: Middle East, bordering the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, between Oman and Saudi Arabia

Area:
total area: 75,581 sq km
land area: 75,581 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Maine

Land boundaries: total 867 km, Oman 410 km, Saudi Arabia 457 km

Coastline: 1,318 km


People

Population: 2,924,594 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 35% (female 499,559; male 521,415)
15-64 years: 64% (female 643,819; male 1,229,730)
65 years and over: 1% (female 10,296; male 19,775)

Population growth rate: 4.55% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 27.02 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 3.03 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 21.53 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 21 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 72.51 years
male: 70.42 years
female: 74.71 years

Total fertility rate: 4.53 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Emirian 19%, other Arab 23%, South Asian 50%, other expatriates (includes Westerners and East Asians) 8% (1982)

Religions: Muslim 96% (Shi'a 16%), Christian, Hindu, and other 4%

Languages: Arabic (official), Persian, English, Hindi, Urdu

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write but definition of literary not available (1985)
total population: 71%
male: 72%
female: 69%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: United Arab Emirates
conventional short form: none

Type: federation with specified powers delegated to the UAE central government and other powers reserved to member emirates

Capital: Abu Dhabi

Independence: 2 December 1971 (from UK)

Constitution: 2 December 1971 (provisional)


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $62.7 billion

National product real growth rate: -0.5%

National product per capita: $22,480

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.1%

Unemployment rate: NEGL%

Electricity:
capacity: 4,760,000 kW
production: 16.5 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 5,796 kWh



Olympic Factoid
An estimated 5.3 million visted Centennial Olympic Park between opening day - 13 July - and closing day - 4 August, making the park the most single most visited Olympic site during the Games.