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Geography

Location: Southeastern Asia, archipelago between the Philippine Sea and the South China Sea, east of Vietnam

Area:
total area: 300,000 sq km
land area: 298,170 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than Arizona

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 36,289 km


People

Population: 73,265,584 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 38% (female 13,841,552; male 14,214,234)
15-64 years: 58% (female 21,603,818; male 20,923,307)
65 years and over: 4% (female 1,425,706; male 1,256,967)

Population growth rate: 2.23% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 30.42 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 6.97 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -1.14 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 49.6 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 65.65 years
male: 63.16 years
female: 68.25 years

Total fertility rate: 3.81 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Christian Malay 91.5%, Muslim Malay 4%, Chinese 1.5%, other 3%

Religions: Roman Catholic 83%, Protestant 9%, Muslim 5%, Buddhist and other 3%

Languages: Pilipino (official; based on Tagalog), English (official)

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
total population: 94%
male: 94%
female: 93%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of the Philippines
conventional short form: Philippines

Type: republic

Capital: Manila

Independence: 4 July 1946 (from US)

Constitution: 2 February 1987, effective 11 February 1987


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $161.4 billion

National product real growth rate: 4.3%

National product per capita: $2,310

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 7.1%

Unemployment rate: 9%

Electricity:
capacity: 6,770,000 kW
production: 20.4 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 278 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.