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GeographyLocation: Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Egypt and Lebanon
Area: 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
PeoplePopulation: 5,433,134 (July 1995 est.)
Age structure:
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 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)
Government
Names:
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
EconomyNational 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:
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