ACOG - Sri Lanka  - IBM

Geography

Location: Southern Asia, island in the Indian Ocean, south of India

Area:
total area: 65,610 sq km
land area: 64,740 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than West Virginia

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 1,340 km


People

Population: 18,342,660 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 29% (female 2,597,969; male 2,713,696)
15-64 years: 65% (female 6,042,228; male 5,902,343)
65 years and over: 6% (female 547,715; male 538,709)

Population growth rate: 1.15% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 18.13 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 5.78 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -0.84 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 21.3 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 72.14 years
male: 69.58 years
female: 74.82 years

Total fertility rate: 2.08 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Sinhalese 74%, Tamil 18%, Moor 7%, Burgher, Malay, and Vedda 1%

Religions: Buddhist 69%, Hindu 15%, Christian 8%, Muslim 8%

Languages: Sinhala (official and national language) 74%, Tamil (national language)18%

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
total population: 88%
male: 93%
female: 84%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
conventional short form: Sri Lanka

Type: republic

Capital: Colombo

Independence: 4 February 1948 (from UK)

Constitution: adopted 16 August 1978


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $57.6 billion

National product real growth rate: 5%

National product per capita: $3,190

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 12%

Unemployment rate: 13.6%

Electricity:
capacity: 1,410,000 kW
production: 3.2 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 168 kWh



Olympic Factoid
Pin trading was one of the most popular Olympic sports, with more than 1.2 million pins changing hands during the Games in the Coca Cola Pin Trading Center at Centennial Olympic Park.