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Geography

Location: Eastern Asia, islands bordering the East China Sea, Philippine Sea,South China Sea, and Taiwan Strait, north of the Philippines, off the southeastern coast of China

Area:
total area: 35,980 sq km
land area: 32,260 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than Maryland and Delaware combined

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 1,448 km


People

Population: 21,500,583 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 24% (female 2,543,134; male 2,665,878)
15-64 years: 68% (female 7,191,964; male 7,482,814)
65 years and over: 8% (female 734,535; male 882,258)

Population growth rate: 0.93% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 15.33 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 5.71 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -0.37 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 5.6 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 75.47 years
male: 72.17 years
female: 78.93 years

Total fertility rate: 1.81 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Taiwanese 84%, mainland Chinese 14%, aborigine 2%

Religions: mixture of Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist 93%, Christian 4.5%, other2.5%

Languages: Mandarin Chinese (official), Taiwanese (Min), Hakka dialects

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1980)
total population: 86%
male: 93%
female: 79%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Taiwan

Type: multiparty democratic regime; opposition political parties legalizedin March, 1989

Capital: Taipei

Independence:

Constitution: 1 January 1947, amended in 1992, presently undergoing revision


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $257 billion

National product real growth rate: 6%

National product per capita: $12,070

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.2%

Unemployment rate: 1.6%

Electricity:
capacity: 21,460,000 kW
production: 108 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 4,789 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.