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GeographyLocation: Eastern Africa, bordering the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, east of Ethiopia
Area: Land boundaries: total 2,366 km, Djibouti 58 km, Ethiopia 1,626 km, Kenya 682 km Coastline: 3,025 km
PeoplePopulation: 7,347,554 (July 1995 est.)
Age structure:
Population growth rate: 15.58% (1995 est.) Birth rate: 45.53 births/1,000 population Death rate: 13.3 deaths/1,000 population Net migration rate: 123.62 migrant(s)/1,000 population Infant mortality rate: 119.5 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
Total fertility rate: 7.13 children born/woman Ethnic divisions: Somali 85%, Bantu, Arabs 30,000 Religions: Sunni Muslim Languages: Somali (official), Arabic, Italian, English
Literacy:
age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
Government
Names:
Type: none Capital: Mogadishu Independence: 1 July 1960 (from a merger of British Somaliland, which became independent from the UK on 26 June 1960, and Italian Somaliland, which became independentfrom the Italian-administered UN trusteeship on 1 July 1960, to form theSomali Republic) Constitution: 25 August 1979, presidential approval 23 September 1979
EconomyNational product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $3.3 billion National product real growth rate: National product per capita: $500 Inflation rate (consumer prices): Unemployment rate:
Electricity:
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