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Geography

Location: Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal,between Bangladesh and Thailand

Area:
total area: 678,500 sq km
land area: 657,740 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Texas

Land boundaries: total 5,876 km, Bangladesh 193 km, China 2,185 km, India 1,463 km,Laos 235 km, Thailand 1,800 km

Coastline: 1,930 km


People

Population: 45,103,809 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 36% (female 7,963,544; male 8,285,459)
15-64 years: 60% (female 13,478,211; male 13,404,987)
65 years and over: 4% (female 1,080,922; male 890,686)

Population growth rate: 1.84% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 28.02 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 9.63 deaths/1,000 population

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

Infant mortality rate: 61.6 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 60.47 years
male: 58.38 years
female: 62.69 years

Total fertility rate: 3.58 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Burman 68%, Shan 9%, Karen 7%, Rakhine 4%, Chinese 3%, Mon 2%, Indian2%, other 5%

Religions: Buddhist 89%, Christian 4% (Baptist 3%, Roman Catholic 1%), Muslim4%, animist beliefs 1%, other 2%

Languages: Burmese; minority ethnic groups have their own languages

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
total population: 81%
male: 89%
female: 72%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Union of Burma
conventional short form: Burma

Type: military regime

Capital: Rangoon (regime refers to the capital as Yangon)

Independence: 4 January 1948 (from UK)

Constitution: 3 January 1974 (suspended since 18 September 1988); National Convention started on 9 January 1993 to draft a new constitution; chapter headings and three of 15 sections have been approved


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $41.4 billion

National product real growth rate: 6.4%

National product per capita: $930

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 38%

Unemployment rate:

Electricity:
capacity: 1,100,000 kW
production: 2.6 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 55 kWh



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