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- * INHABITANTS : millions (1991).
- * POPULATION GROWTH RATE : the annual
- percentage change in a country's population
- for one year (1985-1990).
- * BIRTH RATE : number of births for 1000
- inhabitants for 1990.
- * DEATH RATE : number of deaths for 1000
- inhabitants for 1990.
- * INFANT MORTALITY RATE : number of died
- children before one year-old for 1000 births
- for a year (1991).
- * LIFE EXPECTANCY : number of years a newborn
- baby would live if patterns of mortality
- prevailing for all people at the time of its
- birth were to stay the same all his life
- (1991).
- * URBAN POPULATION : the people living in a
- city as a percentage of all inhabitants
- (1991).
- * DENSITY : number of inhabitants for one
- Km² (1991).
- * ILLITERACY RATE : percentage of the
- population age 15 or older who cannot read
- and write (1991).
- * PRIMARY WORKING POPULATION : the working
- population gathers people having a job and
- adult unemployed people who are searching a
- job. The primary sector gathers agriculture,
- forest activities and fishing. Primary working
- population is the people working in the
- primary sector as a percentage of working
- population (1991).
- * SECUNDARY WORKING POPULATION : this sector
- gathers industry, mines, building and energy.
- People working in this sector as a percentage
- of working population (1991).
- * TERTIARY WORKING POPULATION : this sector
- gathers other activities : commerce and
- office's activities (bank, cinema, government's
- office etc...). People working in this sector
- as a percentage of working population (1991).
- * SHARE OF A SECTOR IN GDP : the value added
- in a country's sector (primary, secundary,
- tertiary) as a percentage of Gross Domestic
- Product. The Gross Domestic Product considers
- the wealth created in a country during a year.
- (1990).
- * G.N.P. PER CAPITA : the Gross National Product
- considers the wealth created by contry's companies
- during a year, expressed in U.S. dollar, divided
- by the number of inhabitants (1991).
- * GNP GROWTH RATE : average annual percentage
- change in a country's real GNP per capita
- (1980-90).
- * INFLATION RATE : annual percentage change
- on prices 1990-1991. This rate changes very
- often from a year to another.
- * RELIGION : only the most important religion
- of the country. All christian and mussulman
- religions are grouped.
- * DAILY CALORIE SUPPLY PER CAPITA : the calorie
- content of the food produced and imported for
- domestic consumption divided by the country's
- population and expressed as a daily amount
- (1990).