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Geography

Location: Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Latvia and Russia

Area:
total area: 65,200 sq km
land area: 65,200 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than West Virginia

Land boundaries: total 1,273 km, Belarus 502 km, Latvia 453 km, Poland 91 km, Russia (Kaliningrad) 227 km

Coastline: 108 km


People

Population: 3,876,396 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 23% (female 426,616; male 444,556)
15-64 years: 65% (female 1,299,052; male 1,227,420)
65 years and over: 12% (female 313,217; male 165,535)

Population growth rate: 0.71% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 14.46 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 10.95 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 3.62 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 16.5 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 71.37 years
male: 66.68 years
female: 76.3 years

Total fertility rate: 2 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Lithuanian 80.1%, Russian 8.6%, Polish 7.7%, Byelorussian 1.5%, other2.1%

Religions: Roman Catholic, Lutheran, other

Languages: Lithuanian (official), Polish, Russian

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1989)
total population: 98%
male: 99%
female: 98%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Lithuania
conventional short form: Lithuania

Type: republic

Capital: Vilnius

Independence: 6 September 1991 (from Soviet Union)

Constitution: adopted 25 October 1992


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $13.5 billion

National product real growth rate: -0.5%

National product per capita: $3,500

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.1%

Unemployment rate: 4.5%

Electricity:
capacity: 6,190,000 kW
production: 18.9 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 4,608 kWh



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