ACOG - Trinidad and Tobago  - IBM

Geography

Location: Caribbean, islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Venezuela

Area:
total area: 5,130 sq km
land area: 5,130 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Delaware

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 362 km


People

Population: 1,271,159 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 31% (female 191,627; male 198,225)
15-64 years: 64% (female 399,726; male 407,495)
65 years and over: 5% (female 40,577; male 33,509)

Population growth rate: 0.12% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 16.62 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 6.88 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -8.59 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 18.5 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 70.14 years
male: 67.75 years
female: 72.6 years

Total fertility rate: 2.01 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: black 43%, East Indian (a local term - primarily immigrants from northern India) 40%, mixed 14%, white 1%, Chinese 1%, other 1%

Religions: Roman Catholic 32.2%, Hindu 24.3%, Anglican 14.4%, other Protestant14%, Muslim 6%, none or unknown 9.1%

Languages: English (official), Hindi, French, Spanish

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
total population: 97%
male: 98%
female: 96%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
conventional short form: Trinidad and Tobago

Type: parliamentary democracy

Capital: Port-of-Spain

Independence: 31 August 1962 (from UK)

Constitution: 1 August 1976


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $15 billion

National product real growth rate: 3%

National product per capita: $11,280

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10.1%

Unemployment rate: 18.1%

Electricity:
capacity: 1,150,000 kW
production: 3.9 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 2,740 kWh



Olympic Factoid
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