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Geography

Location: Southeastern Asia, archipelago between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean

Area:
total area: 1,919,440 sq km
land area: 1,826,440 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than three times the size of Texas

Land boundaries: total 2,602 km, Malaysia 1,782 km, Papua New Guinea 820 km

Coastline: 54,716 km


People

Population: 203,583,886 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 32% (female 32,548,039; male 33,485,810)
15-64 years: 64% (female 65,394,816; male 64,914,362)
65 years and over: 4% (female 4,027,367; male 3,213,492)

Population growth rate: 1.56% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 24.06 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 8.48 deaths/1,000 population

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

Infant mortality rate: 65 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 61.22 years
male: 59.13 years
female: 63.42 years

Total fertility rate: 2.74 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Javanese 45%, Sundanese 14%, Madurese 7.5%, coastal Malays 7.5%, other26%

Religions: Muslim 87%, Protestant 6%, Roman Catholic 3%, Hindu 2%, Buddhist 1%,other 1% (1985)

Languages: Bahasa Indonesia (modified form of Malay; official), English, Dutch,local dialects the most widely spoken of which is Javanese

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
total population: 82%
male: 88%
female: 75%


Government

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

Type: republic

Capital: Jakarta

Independence: 17 August 1945 (proclaimed independence; on 27 December 1949, Indonesia became legally independent from the Netherlands)

Constitution: August 1945, abrogated by Federal Constitution of 1949 and Provisional Constitution of 1950, restored 5 July 1959


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $619.4 billion

National product real growth rate: 6.7%

National product per capita: $3,090

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 9.3%

Unemployment rate: 3% official rate; underemployment 40%

Electricity:
capacity: 12,100,000 kW
production: 44 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 207 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.