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Geography

Location: Western Africa, southwest of Algeria

Area:
total area:
land area:
comparative area: slightly less than twice the size of Texas

Land boundaries: total 7,243 km, Algeria 1,376 km, Burkina 1,000 km, Guinea 858 km,Cote d'Ivoire 532 km, Mauritania 2,237 km, Niger 821 km, Senegal 419 km

Coastline: 0 km


People

Population: 9,375,132 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 48% (female 2,240,565; male 2,242,373)
15-64 years: 49% (female 2,416,952; male 2,165,043)
65 years and over: 3% (female 162,234; male 147,965)

Population growth rate: 2.89% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 51.88 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 19.93 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -3 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 104.5 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 46.37 years
male: 44.7 years
female: 48.09 years

Total fertility rate: 7.33 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Mande 50% (Bambara, Malinke, Sarakole), Peul 17%, Voltaic 12%, Songhai6%, Tuareg and Moor 10%, other 5%

Religions: Muslim 90%, indigenous beliefs 9%, Christian 1%

Languages: French (official), Bambara 80%, numerous African languages

Literacy: age 6 and over can read and write (1988)
total population: 19%
male: 27%
female: 12%


Government

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

Type: republic

Capital: Bamako

Independence: 22 September 1960 (from France)

Constitution: adopted 12 January 1992


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $5.4 billion

National product real growth rate: 2.4%

National product per capita: $600

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 35%

Unemployment rate:

Electricity:
capacity: 90,000 kW
production: 310 million kWh
consumption per capita: 33 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The volunteer staff of the 1996 Olympic Games totaled 50,152. They worked an estimated 850,000 shifts.