ACOG - Brunei Darussalam  - IBM

Geography

Location: Southeastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and Malaysia

Area:
total area: 5,770 sq km
land area: 5,270 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than Delaware

Land boundaries: total 381 km, Malysia 381 km

Coastline: 161 km


People

Population: 292,266 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 34% (female 48,458; male 50,624)
15-64 years: 62% (female 85,581; male 95,955)
65 years and over: 4% (female 5,172; male 6,476)

Population growth rate: 2.63% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 25.83 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 5.07 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 5.49 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 24.7 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 71.24 years
male: 69.65 years
female: 72.91 years

Total fertility rate: 3.41 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Malay 64%, Chinese 20%, other 16%

Religions: Muslim (official) 63%, Buddhism 14%, Christian 8%, indigenous beliefsand other 15% (1981)

Languages: Malay (official), English, Chinese

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1991)
total population: 88%
male: 92%
female: 82%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Negara Brunei Darussalam
conventional short form: Brunei

Type: constitutional sultanate

Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan

Independence: 1 January 1984 (from UK)

Constitution: 29 September 1959 (some provisions suspended under a State of Emergency since December 1962, others since independence on 1 January 1984)


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $4.43 billion

National product real growth rate: -4%

National product per capita: $16,000

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.5%

Unemployment rate: 5%

Electricity:
capacity: 380,000 kW
production: 1.2 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 3,971 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.