ACOG - Kuwait  - IBM

Geography

Location: Middle East, bordering the Persian Gulf, between Iraq and Saudi Arabia

Area:
total area: 17,820 sq km
land area: 17,820 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than New Jersey

Land boundaries: total 464 km, Iraq 242 km, Saudi Arabia 222 km

Coastline: 499 km


People

Population: 1,817,397 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 34% (female 302,908; male 319,659)
15-64 years: 64% (female 467,163; male 697,849)
65 years and over: 2% (female 13,476; male 16,342)

Population growth rate: 7.46% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 21.07 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 2.2 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 55.71 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 11.5 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 75.64 years
male: 73.33 years
female: 78.06 years

Total fertility rate: 2.93 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Kuwaiti 45%, other Arab 35%, South Asian 9%, Iranian 4%, other 7%

Religions: Muslim 85% (Shi'a 30%, Sunni 45%, other 10%), Christian, Hindu, Parsi,and other 15%

Languages: Arabic (official), English widely spoken

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1985)
total population: 74%
male: 78%
female: 69%


Government

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

Type: nominal constitutional monarchy

Capital: Kuwait

Independence: 19 June 1961 (from UK)

Constitution: approved and promulgated 11 November 1962


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $30.7 billion

National product real growth rate: 9.3%

National product per capita: $16,900

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3%

Unemployment rate: NEGL%

Electricity:
capacity: 7,070,000 kW
production: 11 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 6,007 kWh



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