ACOG - Israel  - IBM

Geography

Location: Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Egypt and Lebanon

Area:
total area: 20,770 sq km
land area: 20,330 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than New Jersey

Land boundaries: total 1,006 km, Egypt 255 km, Gaza Strip 51 km, Jordan 238 km, Lebanon79 km, Syria 76 km, West Bank 307 km

Coastline: 273 km


People

Population: 5,433,134 (July 1995 est.)

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

Population growth rate: 1.4% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 20.39 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 6.38 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 8.4 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 78.14 years
male: 76 years
female: 80.39 years

Total fertility rate: 2.81 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Jewish 82% (Israel born 50%, Europe/Americas/Oceania born 20%, Africaborn 7%, Asia born 5%), non-Jewish 18% (mostly Arab) (1993 est.)

Religions: Judaism 82%, Islam 14% (mostly Sunni Muslim), Christian 2%, Druze andother 2%

Languages: Hebrew (official), Arabic used officially for Arab minority, Englishmost commonly used foreign language

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1992)
total population: 95%
male: 97%
female: 93%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: State of Israel
conventional short form: Israel

Type: republic

Capital: Jerusalem

Independence: 14 May 1948 (from League of Nations mandate under British administration)

Constitution: no formal constitution; some of the functions of a constitution arefilled by the Declaration of Establishment (1948), the basic laws of the parliament (Knesset), and the Israeli citizenship law


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $70.1 billion

National product real growth rate: 6.8%

National product per capita: $13,880

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 14.5%

Unemployment rate: 7.5%

Electricity:
capacity: 4,140,000 kW
production: 23 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 4,290 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.