ACOG - Bahrain  - IBM

Geography

Location: Middle East, archipelago in the Persian Gulf, east of Saudi Arabia

Area:
total area: 620 sq km
land area: 620 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than 3.5 times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 161 km


People

Population: 575,925 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 31% (female 87,398; male 89,976)
15-64 years: 67% (female 152,363; male 231,586)
65 years and over: 2% (female 7,051; male 7,551)

Population growth rate: 2.58% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 24.12 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 3.31 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 4.95 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 18 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 73.94 years
male: 71.46 years
female: 76.49 years

Total fertility rate: 3.12 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Bahraini 63%, Asian 13%, other Arab 10%, Iranian 8%, other 6%

Religions: Shi'a Muslim 70%, Sunni Muslim 30%

Languages: Arabic, English, Farsi, Urdu

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1991)
total population: 84%
male: 89%
female: 77%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: State of Bahrain
conventional short form: Bahrain

Type: traditional monarchy

Capital: Manama

Independence: 15 August 1971 (from UK)

Constitution: 26 May 1973, effective 6 December 1973


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $7.1 billion

National product real growth rate: 2.2%

National product per capita: $12,100

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2%

Unemployment rate: 15%

Electricity:
capacity: 1,050,000 kW
production: 3.3 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 5,453 kWh



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