ACOG - Tunisia  - IBM

Geography

Location: Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Algeria and Libya

Area:
total area: 163,610 sq km
land area: 155,360 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than Georgia

Land boundaries: total 1,424 km, Algeria 965 km, Libya 459 km

Coastline: 1,148 km


People

Population: 8,879,845 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 35% (female 1,507,866; male 1,563,411)
15-64 years: 60% (female 2,665,586; male 2,672,712)
65 years and over: 5% (female 226,201; male 244,069)

Population growth rate: 1.69% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 22.52 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 4.86 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -0.74 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 32.3 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 73.25 years
male: 71.16 years
female: 75.44 years

Total fertility rate: 2.73 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Arab-Berber 98%, European 1%, Jewish less than 1%

Religions: Muslim 98%, Christian 1%, Jewish 1%

Languages: Arabic (official and one of the languages of commerce), French (commerce)

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1989)
total population: 57%
male: 69%
female: 45%


Government

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

Type: republic

Capital: Tunis

Independence: 20 March 1956 (from France)

Constitution: 1 June 1959; amended 12 July 1988


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $37.1 billion

National product real growth rate: 4.4%

National product per capita: $4,250

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.5%

Unemployment rate: 16.2%

Electricity:
capacity: 1,410,000 kW
production: 5.4 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 595 kWh



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