ACOG - Kyrgyzstan  - IBM

Geography

Location: Central Asia, west of China

Area:
total area: 198,500 sq km
land area: 191,300 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than South Dakota

Land boundaries: total 3,878 km, China 858 km, Kazakhstan 1,051 km, Tajikistan 870 km, Uzbekistan 1,099 km

Coastline: 0 km


People

Population: 4,769,877 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 37% (female 868,108; male 888,479)
15-64 years: 57% (female 1,377,221; male 1,345,990)
65 years and over: 6% (female 185,807; male 104,272)

Population growth rate: 1.5% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 25.97 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 7.32 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -3.66 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 45.8 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 68.13 years
male: 63.92 years
female: 72.56 years

Total fertility rate: 3.31 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Kirghiz 52.4%, Russian 21.5%, Uzbek 12.9%, Ukrainian 2.5%, German 2.4%, other 8.3%

Religions: Muslim 70%, Russian Orthodox NA%

Languages: Kirghiz (Kyrgyz) - official language, Russian widely used

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1989)
total population: 97%
male: 99%
female: 96%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Kyrgyz Republic
conventional short form: Kyrgyzstan

Type: republic

Capital: Bishkek

Independence: 31 August 1991 (from Soviet Union)

Constitution: adopted 5 May 1993


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $8.4 billion

National product real growth rate: -24%

National product per capita: $1,790

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.4%

Unemployment rate: 0.7% includes officially registered unemployed; also large numbersof unregistered unemployed and underemployed workers

Electricity:
capacity: 3,660,000 kW
production: 12.7 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 2,700 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.