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Geography

Location: Central Europe, northwest of Romania

Area:
total area: 93,030 sq km
land area: 92,340 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Indiana

Land boundaries: total 1,989 km, Austria 366 km, Croatia 329 km, Romania 443 km, Serbiaand Montenegro 151 km (all with Serbia), Slovakia 515 km, Slovenia 82 km, Ukraine 103 km

Coastline: 0 km


People

Population: 10,318,838 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 18% (female 918,281; male 958,027)
15-64 years: 68% (female 3,534,218; male 3,440,036)
65 years and over: 14% (female 914,221; male 554,055)

Population growth rate: 0.02% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 12.65 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 12.44 deaths/1,000 population

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

Infant mortality rate: 11.9 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 71.9 years
male: 67.94 years
female: 76.06 years

Total fertility rate: 1.82 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Hungarian 89.9%, Gypsy 4%, German 2.6%, Serb 2%, Slovak 0.8%, Romanian0.7%

Religions: Roman Catholic 67.5%, Calvinist 20%, Lutheran 5%, atheist and other7.5%

Languages: Hungarian 98.2%, other 1.8%

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1980)
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 98%


Government

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

Type: republic

Capital: Budapest

Independence: 1001 (unification by King Stephen I)

Constitution: 18 August 1949, effective 20 August 1949, revised 19 April 1972; 18October 1989 revision ensured legal rights for individuals and constitutional checks on the authority of the prime minister and also established the principleof parliamentary oversight


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $58.8 billion

National product real growth rate: 3%

National product per capita: $5,700

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 21%

Unemployment rate: 10.4%

Electricity:
capacity: 6,740,000 kW
production: 31 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 3,012 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The volunteer staff of the 1996 Olympic Games totaled 50,152. They worked an estimated 850,000 shifts.