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Geography

Location: Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia

Area:
total area: 56,538 sq km
land area: 56,410 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than West Virginia

Land boundaries: total 2,028 km, Bosnia and Herzegovina 932 km, Hungary 329 km, Serbiaand Montenegro 266 km (241 km with Serbia; 25 km with Montenego), Slovenia501 km

Coastline: 5,790 km


People

Population: 4,665,821 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 19% (female 418,272; male 442,064)
15-64 years: 68% (female 1,592,187; male 1,588,455)
65 years and over: 13% (female 394,650; male 230,193)

Population growth rate: 0.13% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 11.02 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 10.55 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0.77 migrant(s)/1,000 population

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

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 74.02 years
male: 70.59 years
female: 77.65 years

Total fertility rate: 1.62 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Croat 78%, Serb 12%, Muslim 0.9%, Hungarian 0.5%, Slovenian 0.5%, others 8.1% (1991)

Religions: Catholic 76.5%, Orthodox 11.1%, Slavic Muslim 1.2%, Protestant 0.4%,others and unknown 10.8%

Languages: Serbo-Croatian 96%, other 4%

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1991)
total population: 97%
male: 99%
female: 95%


Government

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

Type: parliamentary democracy

Capital: Zagreb

Independence: 25 June 1991 (from Yugoslavia)

Constitution: adopted on 22 December 1990


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $12.4 billion

National product real growth rate: 3.4%

National product per capita: $2,640

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3%

Unemployment rate: 17%

Electricity:
capacity: 3,570,000 kW
production: NA kWh
consumption per capita:



Olympic Factoid
Closing Ceremony of the 1996 Games involved a crew of 2,100 who worked with more than 3,500 performers as well as thousands of athletes who celebrated on the field of Olympic Stadium.