ACOG - Bermuda  - IBM

Geography

Location: North America, group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, east of North Carolina (US)

Area:
total area: 50 sq km
land area: 50 sq km
comparative area: about 0.3 times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 103 km


People

Population: 61,629 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years:
15-64 years:
65 years and over:

Population growth rate: 0.76% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 15.07 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 7.3 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -0.13 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 13.16 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 75.03 years
male: 73.36 years
female: 76.97 years

Total fertility rate: 1.81 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: black 61%, white and other 39%

Religions: Anglican 37%, Roman Catholic 14%, African Methodist Episcopal (Zion)10%, Methodist 6%, Seventh-Day Adventist 5%, other 28%

Languages: English

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1970)
total population: 98%
male: 98%
female: 99%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Bermuda

Type: dependent territory of the UK

Capital: Hamilton

Independence: none (dependent territory of the UK)

Constitution: 8 June 1968


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $1.7 billion

National product real growth rate: 2.5%

National product per capita: $28,000

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.5%

Unemployment rate: 6%

Electricity:
capacity: 140,000 kW
production: 504 million kWh
consumption per capita: 7,745 kWh



Olympic Factoid
Closing Ceremony of the 1996 Games involved a crew of 2,100 who worked with more than 3,500 performers as well as thousands of athletes who celebrated on the field of Olympic Stadium.