ACOG - Djibouti  - IBM

Geography

Location: Eastern Africa, bordering the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, between Eritrea and Somalia

Area:
total area: 22,000 sq km
land area: 21,980 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than Massachusetts

Land boundaries: total 508 km, Eritrea 113 km, Ethiopia 337 km, Somalia 58 km

Coastline: 314 km


People

Population: 421,320 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 43% (female 90,070; male 90,631)
15-64 years: 55% (female 108,824; male 121,715)
65 years and over: 2% (female 4,900; male 5,180)

Population growth rate: 1.48% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 42.79 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 15.51 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -12.46 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 108.8 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 49.7 years
male: 47.83 years
female: 51.62 years

Total fertility rate: 6.15 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Somali 60%, Afar 35%, French, Arab, Ethiopian, and Italian 5%

Religions: Muslim 94%, Christian 6%

Languages: French (official), Arabic (official), Somali, Afar

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
total population: 48%
male: 63%
female: 34%


Government

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

Type: republic

Capital: Djibouti

Independence: 27 June 1977 (from France)

Constitution: multiparty constitution approved in referendum 4 September 1992


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $500 million

National product real growth rate: -3%

National product per capita: $1,200

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6%

Unemployment rate: over 30%

Electricity:
capacity: 90,000 kW
production: 170 million kWh
consumption per capita: 398 kWh



Olympic Factoid
More tickets were sold to the competitions of the 1996 Games than to any other Olympic Games or sports event in history. The 8.6 million ticket sales figures topped sales to the Los Angeles and Barcelona Games combined.