ACOG - Sao Tome and Principe - IBM

Geography

Location: Western Africa, island in the Atlantic Ocean, straddling the equator,west of Gabon

Area:
total area: 960 sq km
land area: 960 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than 5.5 times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 209 km


People

Population: 140,423 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 40% (female 27,995; male 28,452)
15-64 years: 55% (female 38,846; male 38,619)
65 years and over: 5% (female 3,615; male 2,896)

Population growth rate: 2.62% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 34.94 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 8.7 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 62.1 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 63.65 years
male: 61.76 years
female: 65.59 years

Total fertility rate: 4.44 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: mestico, angolares (descendents of Angolan slaves), forros (descendentsof freed slaves), servicais (contract laborers from Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde), tongas (children of servicais born on the islands), Europeans (primarily Portuguese)

Religions: Roman Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, Seventh-Day Adventist

Languages: Portuguese (official)

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1991)
total population: 73%
male: 85%
female: 62%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe
conventional short form: Sao Tome and Principe

Type: republic

Capital: Sao Tome

Independence: 12 July 1975 (from Portugal)

Constitution: approved March 1990; effective 10 September 1990


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $133 million

National product real growth rate:

National product per capita: $1,000

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 27%

Unemployment rate:

Electricity:
capacity: 5,000 kW
production: 17 million kWh
consumption per capita: 105 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The Mother Nature was kind to Olympic athletes and spectators. The average high temperature during the Games was 89 degrees with an average low of 72 degrees. Highest temperature registered (20 July) - 99 degrees. Lowest high temperature registered is 79 degrees (28 July).