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Geography

Location: Western Europe, islands including the northern one-sixth of the island of Ireland between the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea, northwestof France

Area:
total area: 244,820 sq km
land area: 241,590 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Oregon

Land boundaries: total 360 km, Ireland 360 km

Coastline: 12,429 km


People

Population: 58,295,119 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 19% (female 5,572,189; male 5,843,192)
15-64 years: 65% (female 18,723,583; male 18,935,931)
65 years and over: 16% (female 5,471,383; male 3,748,841)

Population growth rate: 0.27% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 13.18 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 10.66 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0.17 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 7 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 77 years
male: 74.18 years
female: 79.95 years

Total fertility rate: 1.82 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: English 81.5%, Scottish 9.6%, Irish 2.4%, Welsh 1.9%, Ulster 1.8%,West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, and other 2.8%

Religions: Anglican 27 million, Roman Catholic 9 million, Muslim 1 million, Presbyterian800,000, Methodist 760,000, Sikh 400,000, Hindu 350,000, Jewish 300,000 (1991est.)

Languages: English, Welsh (about 26% of the population of Wales), Scottish formof Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland)

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


Government

Names:
conventional long form: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
conventional short form: United Kingdom

Type: constitutional monarchy

Capital: London

Independence: 1 January 1801 (United Kingdom established)

Constitution: unwritten; partly statutes, partly common law and practice


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $1.0452 trillion

National product real growth rate: 4.2%

National product per capita: $17,980

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.4%

Unemployment rate: 9.3%

Electricity:
capacity: 65,360,000 kW
production: 303 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 5,123 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.