ACOG - United States of America - IBM

Geography

Location: North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and Mexico

Area:
total area: 9,372,610 sq km
land area: 9,166,600 sq km
comparative area: about half the size of Russia; about three-tenths the size of Africa;about one-half the size of South America (or slightly larger than Brazil); slightly smaller than China; about two and one-half times the size of WesternEurope

Land boundaries: total 12,248 km, Canada 8,893 km (including 2,477 km with Alaska),Cuba 29 km (US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay), Mexico 3,326 km

Coastline: 19,924 km


People

Population: 263,814,032 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 22% (female 28,391,451; male 29,845,630)
15-64 years: 65% (female 86,454,415; male 85,474,002)
65 years and over: 13% (female 19,949,978; male 13,698,559)

Population growth rate: 1.02% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 15.25 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 8.38 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 3.34 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 7.88 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 75.99 years
male: 72.8 years
female: 79.7 years

Total fertility rate: 2.08 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: white 83.4%, black 12.4%, Asian 3.3%, Native American 0.8% (1992)

Religions: Protestant 56%, Roman Catholic 28%, Jewish 2%, other 4%, none 10% (1989)

Languages: English, Spanish (spoken by a sizable minority)

Literacy: age 15 and over has completed five or more years of schooling (1979)
total population: 97%
male: 97%
female: 97%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: United States of America
conventional short form: United States

Type: federal republic; strong democratic tradition

Capital: Washington, DC

Independence: 4 July 1776 (from England)

Constitution: 17 September 1787, effective 4 March 1789


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $6.7384 trillion

National product real growth rate: 4.1%

National product per capita: $25,850

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.6%

Unemployment rate: 5.5%

Electricity:
capacity: 695,120,000 kW
production: 3.1 trillion kWh
consumption per capita: 11,236 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.