The world in focus.THE WORLD IN FOCUS WORLD ALMANAC almanac, originally, a calendar with notations of astronomical and other data. Almanacs have been known in simple form almost since the invention of writing, for they served to record religious feasts, seasonal changes, and the like. Country-by-Country Statistics Compare Economics, Politics, Quality of Life Around the Globe DISCUSSION QUESTIONS * If you were the editor of The World in Focus, which data would you add to the tables? * If you were an aide to President Bush, which of the data would you use in making recommendations about trade with and aid to other countries? TEACHING OBJECTIVES To help students better understand what economic, social and political statistics reveal about history, culture and life in countries around the world. CLASSROOM STRATEGIES BEFORE READING: Ask students whether they encounter statistics in their daily lives, then ask: * Do you follow school or professional sports The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. teams? * Do you ever ride in a car? * Have you ever been treated by a medical doctor? * Do you go to the movies or buy CDs or DVDs? BACKGROUND: Tell students that statistics play a key role in every activity listed. Sports statistics determine which teams win championships--and which players are paid big salaries. States use statistics on auto use to make decisions about speed limits, road building and where traffic lights and signs should go. Physicians make determinations about treatment based on data collected from health studies. And statistics on movie and CD sales help determine entertainers' sales potential and salaries. BEHIND THE STATS: Data in one area may offer clues to data in other areas. Demonstrate this by having students identify countries with population increases around 3 percent and those below one percent. This indicator Indicator Anything used to predict future financial or economic trends. Notes: In the context of technical analysis, an indicator is a mathematical calculation based on a securities price and/or volume. The result is used to predict future prices. often provides clues to income and quality of life. (High population growth rates Growth Rates The compounded annualized rate of growth of a company's revenues, earnings, dividends, or other figures. Notes: Remember, historically high growth rates don't always mean a high rate of growth looking into the future. often signal low income and HDI HDI Human Development Index (UNDP yardstick of human welfare) HDI Help Desk Institute HDI Humpty Dumpty Institute (New York, New York) HDI High Density Interconnect .) Students can test this by matching high growth rates with per capita [Latin, By the heads or polls.] A term used in the Descent and Distribution of the estate of one who dies without a will. It means to share and share alike according to the number of individuals. GDP GDP (guanosine diphosphate): see guanine. and HDI. Discuss reasons for these links. HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS: Do students see anything in the tables about history--besides Date of Origin? Have them look in the Major Languages columns in South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Africa. What does the prevalence prevalence /prev·a·lence/ (prev´ah-lins) the number of cases of a specific disease present in a given population at a certain time. prev·a·lence n. of Spanish Spanish, river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, issuing from Spanish Lake, S Ont., Canada, NW of Sudbury, and flowing generally S through Biskotasi and Agnew lakes to Lake Huron opposite Manitoulin island. There are several hydroelectric stations on the river. in South America and French in Africa say about history? (Spain Spain, Span. España (āspä`nyä), officially Kingdom of Spain, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 40,341,000), 194,884 sq mi (504,750 sq km), including the Balearic and Canary islands, SW Europe. colonized Colonized This occurs when a microorganism is found on or in a person without causing a disease. Mentioned in: Isolation most of South America, France much of Africa.) In which African country is German spoken? (Namibia Namibia (nämĭb`ēə), officially Republic of Namibia, republic (2005 est. pop. 2,031,000), c.318,000 sq mi (823,620 sq km), SW Africa. was a German protectorate protectorate, in international law protectorate, in international law, a relationship in which one state surrenders part of its sovereignty to another. The subordinate state is called a protectorate. until 1915.) Upfront Quiz A quiz is a form of game or mind sport in which the players (as individuals or in teams) attempt to answer questions correctly. Quizzes are also brief assessments used in education and similar fields to measure growth in knowledge, abilities, and/or skills. 4 FILL IN THE BLANK Lacking something essential to fulfillment or completeness; unrestricted or open. A space left empty for the insertion of one or more words or marks in a written document that will effectuate its meaning or make it legally operative. > WORLD IN FOCUS > PAGES 24-33 OPEN BOOK TEST DIRECTIONS: Fill in the blank with the correct answer. 1. Males in the North American country Noun 1. North American country - any country on the North American continent North American nation country, land, state - the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" of have the same life expectancy Life Expectancy 1. The age until which a person is expected to live. 2. The remaining number of years an individual is expected to live, based on IRS issued life expectancy tables. as males in the U.S. 2. Two North American countries, and , have male and female life expectancies that are higher than those in the U.S. 3. The island country of (two words) has the smallest percentage of its population living in urban areas of any country in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . 4. This South American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of capital of sounds as though it might have been named for the first U.S. President. (It was actually named for a British king.) 5. Per capita GDP in the country referred to in question 4, above, is almost exactly one half that of, whose capital is Montevideo Montevideo (mŏntāvēthā`ō), city (1996 pop. 1,330,405), S Uruguay, capital and largest city of Uruguay, on the Río de La Plata. . 6. is the only European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. country identified as a dictatorship dictatorship Form of government in which one person or an oligarchy possesses absolute power without effective constitutional checks. With constitutional democracy, it is one of the two chief forms of government in use today. . 7. At 0.944, has the best Human Development Index rating in Europe Europe (y  r`əp), 6th largest continent, c.4,000,000 sq mi (10,360,000 sq km) including adjacent islands (1992 est. pop. 512,000,000). .
Its rating is also higher than that of the U.S.8. From his capital in Tripoli Tripoli, city, Lebanon Tripoli (trĭp`əlē) or Tarabulus (täräb` l , Colonel COLONEL. An officer in the army, next below a brigadier general, bears this title. Muammar al-Qaddafi Noun 1. Muammar al-Qaddafi - Libyan leader who seized power in a military coup d'etat in 1969; deposed the Libyan monarchy and imposed socialism and Islamic orthodoxy on the country (born in 1942)Gaddafi, Khadafy, Muammar el-Qaddafi, Qaddafi, Qadhafi runs a one-party Adj. 1. one-party - determined by a single party unilateral, one-sided - involving only one part or side; "unilateral paralysis"; "a unilateral decision" dictatorship in the North African North Africa A region of northern Africa generally considered to include the modern-day countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. North African adj. & n. Adj. 1. country of 9. French and are the two most commonly spoken European languages in Africa. 10. In terms of square miles A square mil is a unit of area, equal to the area of a square with sides of length one mil. A mil is one thousandth of an international inch. This unit of area is usually used in specifying the area of the cross section of a wire or cable. , is the largest country in Africa. 11. The smallest African country in terms of size is the island nation of With only 174 square miles, it is a little more than 2.5 times the size of Washington Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. , D.C. 12. , the third-most-important U.S. trading partner, has the highest per capita GDP in all of Asia. ANSWER KEY Upfront Quiz 4, page 6 1. Cuba Cuba (ky  `bə, Span. k`bä), officially Republic of Cuba, republic (2005 est. pop. 2. Canada/Costa Rica 3. Saint Lucia Saint Lucia (sānt l `shə, –sēə), island nation (2005 est. pop. 166,000), 238 sq mi (616 sq km), West Indies, one of the Windward Islands. The capital is Castries. 4. Georgetown Georgetown, city, Guyana Georgetown, city (1985 est. pop. 75,000), capital and largest city of Guyana, on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Demerara River. 5. Uruguay Uruguay, country, South America Uruguay (y `rəgwā, gwī, Span. r 6. Belarus Belarus or Byelarus (both: byĕ'lər s`), formerly Belorussia, officially Republic of Belarus, republic (2005 pop. 9,799,000), c. 7. Norway Norway, Nor. Norge, officially Kingdom of Norway, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 4,593,000), 125,181 sq mi (324,219 sq km), N Europe, occupying the western part of the Scandinavian peninsula. 8. Libya Libya (lĭb`ēə), officially Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahirya [state of the masses], republic (2005 est. pop. 5,766,000), 679,358 sq mi (1,759,540 sq km), N Africa. 9. English 1. English - (Obsolete) The source code for a program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable or executable binary produced from it by a compiler. The idea behind the term is that to a real hacker, a program written in his favourite programming language is 10. Sudan Sudan (s dăn`), officially Republic of Sudan, republic (2005 est. pop. 40,187,000), 967,494 sq mi (2,505,813 sq km), NE Africa. 11. Seychelles Seychelles (sāshĕlz`), officially Republic of Seychelles, republic (2005 est. pop. 81,000), c.110 sq mi (285 sq km), comprising approximately 100 islands in the Indian Ocean, c.600 mi (970 km) N of Madagascar and c. 12. Japan
North America
COUNTRY AREA (SQ MI) URBAN CAPITAL
POPULATION POP %
POP RISE
%/YEAR
Antigua & 170 37 St. John's
Barbuda 100,000 1.7
Bahamas 5,359 84 Nassau
300,000 1.3
Barbados 166 38 Bridgetown
300,000 0.6
Belize 8,865 45 Belmopan
300,000 2.3
Canada 3,846,670 79 Ottawa
31,600,000 0.3
Costa Rica 19,730 59 San Jose
4,200,000 1.4
Cuba 42,803 75 Havana
11,300,00 0.5
Dominica 290 71 Roseau
100,000 1.0
Dominican 18,815 61 Santo
Republic 8,700,000 1.9 Domingo
EL Salvador 8,124 58 San Salvador
6,600,000 2.3
Grenada 131 38 St. George's
100,000 1.2
Guatemala 42,042 39 Guatemala
12,400,000 2.6 City
Haiti 10,714 36 Port-au-Prince
7,500,000 1.8
Honduras 43,278 46 Tegucigalpa
6,900,000 2.9
Jamaica 4,243 52 Kingston
2,600,000 1.5
Mexico 756,062 75 Mexico City
104,900,000 2.4
Nicaragua 50,193 57 Managua
5,500,000 2.7
Panama 29,158 62 Panama City
3,000,000 1.8
Saint Kitts 139 43 Basseterre
& Nevis 50,000 1.2
Saint Lucia 239 30 Castries
200,000 1.1
Saint Vincent & 151 44 Kingstown
the Grenadines 100,000 1.1
Trinidad & 1,981 72 Port-of-Spain
Tobago 1,300,000 0.6
United States 3,717,796 79 Washington
291,500,000 0.6 D.C
COUNTRY MAJOR FORM OF GOVERNMENT
LANGUAGES & HEAD
Antigua & English, local Dominant party;
Barbuda dialects 1 Prime Minister
Lester Bird
Bahamas English, Creole Parliamentary democracy;
Prime Minister Perry
Christie
Barbados English Parliamentary democracy;
Prime Minister
Owen Arthur
Belize English, Spanish, Parliamentary democracy;
Mayan, Garifuna Prime Minister Said Musa
Canada English, French Parliamentary democracy;
Prime Minister Jean
Chretien
Costa Rica Spanish, English Presidential-legislative
democracy; President
Abel Pacheco de la
Espriella
Cuba Spanish Communist one-party
state; President
Fidel Castro
Dominica English, French Parliamentary democracy;
patois Prime Minister Pierre
Charles
Dominican Spanish Presidential-legislative
Republic democracy; President
Hipolito Mejia
EL Salvador Spanish, Nahua Presidential-legislative
democracy; President
Francisco Flores Perez
Grenada English, French Parliamentary democracy;
patois Prime Minister Keith
Mitchell
Guatemala Spanish, Amerindian President-legislative
dialects democracy; President
Alfonso Portillo Cabrera
Haiti Creole, French Dominant party;
President lean-Bertrand
Aristide
Honduras Spanish, Amerindian Presidential-legislative
dialects democracy; President
Ricardo Maduro
Jamaica English, Creole Parliamentary democracy;
Prime Minister Percival
James Patterson
Mexico Spanish, Mayan, other Presidential-legislative
indigenous languages democracy; President
Vicente Fox
Nicaragua Spanish, English, Presidential-legislative
Amerindian dialects democracy; President
Enrique Bolanos
Panama Spanish, English Presidential-legislative
democracy; President
Mireya Moscoso
Saint Kitts English Parliamentary democracy;
& Nevis Prime Minister Denzil
Douglas
Saint Lucia English, French Parliamentary democracy;
patois Prime Minister Kenny
Anthony
Saint Vincent & English, French Parliamentary democracy;
the Grenadines patois Prime Minister Ralph
Gonsalves
Trinidad & English, Hindi, Parliamentary democracy;
Tobago French, Spanish Prime Minister Patrick
Manning
United States English, Spanish Presidential-legislative
others democracy; President
George W. Bush
COUNTRY DATE OF LITERACY PER
ORIGIN RATE (%) CAPITA GDP
%OF POP. LIFE HDI
UNDER 15 EXPECTANCY
Antigua & 1981 90/88 $11,000
Barbuda 26 68/73 0.798
Bahamas 1973 95/97 $17,000
30 70/75 0.812
Barbados 1966 98/97 $14,500
22 70/76 0.888
Belize 1981 94/94 $4,900
41 65/69 0.776
Canada 1867 97(1) $29,400
18 77/82 0.937
Costa Rica 1821 96/96 $8,500
30 76/81 0.832
Cuba 1902 97/97 $2,300
21 74/78 0.806
Dominica 1978 94/94 $5,400
33 71/76 0.776
Dominican 1844 85/85 $6,100
Republic 35 68/70 0.737
EL Salvador 1821 83/78 $4,700
38 67/73 0.719
Grenada 1974 98/98 $5,000
35 NA 0.738
Guatemala 1821 78/63 63/69
42 63/69 0.652
Haiti 1804 55/51 $1,700
40 50/52 0.467
Honduras 1821 76/76 $2,600
42 67/74 0.667
Jamaica 1962 84/92 $3,900
31 73/77 0.757
Mexico 1810 94/91 $9,000
33 73/78 0.800
Nicaragua 1821 67/68 $2,500
42 66/71 0.643
Panama 1903 93/92 $6,000
32 72/77 0.788
Saint Kitts 1983 97/98 $8,800
& Nevis 31 68/74 0.808
Saint Lucia 1979 65/69 $5,400
31 70/74 0.775
Saint Vincent & 1979 96/96 $2,900
the Grenadines 37 71/74 0.755
Trinidad & 1962 99/98 $9.500
Tobago 25 68/73 0.802
United States 1776 97/97 $37,600
21 74/80 0,937
South America
COUNTRY AREA (SQ MI) URBAN CAPITAL
POP.%
POPULATION POP RISE
%/YEAR
Argentina 1,073,514 89 Buenos Aires
36,900,000 1.2
Bolivia 424,162 63 La Paz
8,600,000 2.3 and Sucre
Brazil 3,300,154 81 Brasilia
176,500,000 1.3
Chile 292,135 87 Santiago
15,800,000 1.2
Colombia 439,734 71 Bogota
44,200,000 1.8
Ecuador 109,483 61 Quito
12,600,000 2.1
Guyana 83,000 36 Georgetown
800,000 1.4
Paraguay 157,046 54 Asuncion
6,200,000 2.7
Peru 496,224 72 Lima
27,100,000 2.0
Suriname 63,039 69 Paramaribo
400,000 1.5
Uruguay 68,498 93 Montevideo
3,400,000 0.6
Venezuela 352,143 87 Caracas
25,700,000 1.9
COUNTRY MAJOR FORM OF GOVERNMENT
LANGUAGES & HEAD
Argentina Spanish, English, Presidential legislative
Italian, German, democracy; President
French Nestor Kirchner
Bolivia Spanish, Quechua, Presidential-legislative
Aymara democracy; President
Gonzalo Sanchez de
Lozada
Brazil Portuguese, Presidential-legislative
Amerindian dialects democracy; President
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva,
Chile Spanish Presidential-legislative
democracy; President
Ricardo Lagos Escobar
Colombia Spanish Presidential-legislative
democracy; President
Alvaro Unibe Velez
Ecuador Spanish, Amerindian Presidential-legislative
dialects democracy; President
Lucio Gutierrez
Guyana English, Amerindian Parliamentary democracy;
dialects President Bharrat Jagdeo
Paraguay Spanish, Guarani Presidential-legislative
democracy; President
Nicanor Duarte Frutos
Peru Spanish, Quechua, Presidential-legislative
Aymara democracy, President
Alejandro Toledo
Suriname Dutch, Sranang, Parliamentary democracy;
Tongo, Hindustani, President Ronald
English, Javanese Venetiaan
Uruguay Spanish, Portunol, Presidential-legislative
Brazilero democracy; President
Jorge Batlle
Venezuela Spanish, Amerindian Presidential-legislative
dialects democracy; President
Hugo Chavez
COUNTRY DATE OF LITERACY PER
ORIGIN RATE (%) CAPITA GDP
% OF POP LIFE HDI
UNDER 15 EXPECTANCY
Argentina 1816 97/97 $10,200
31 70/77 0.849
Bolivia 1825 93/82 $2,500
39 61/64 0.672
Brazil 1822 86/87 $7,600
30 65/73 0.777
Chile 1810 96/96 $10,000
26 73/79 0.831
Colombia 1810 92/93 $6,500
33 68/75 0.779
Ecuador 1822 94/91 $3,100
36 68/74 0.731
Guyana 1966 99/99 $4,000
30 60/67 0.740
Paraguay 1811 95/93 $4,200
39 69/73 0.751
Peru 1821 95/87 $4,800
34 66/71 0.752
Suriname 1975 95/91 I $3,500
32 67/72 0.762
Uruguay 1825 98/98 $7,800
24 71/79 0.834
Venezuela 1811 94/93 $5,500
34 71/77 0.775
Africa
COUNTRY AREA(SQ MI) URBAN CAPITAL
POP. %
POPULATION POP. RISE
%/YEAR
Algeria 919,591 49 Algiers
31,700,000 1.8
Angola 481,351 32 Luanda
13,100,000 2.9
Benin 43,483 40 Porto-Novo
7,000,000 2.7
Botswana 224,606 54 Gaborone
1,600,000 0.3
Burkina Faso 105,792 15 Ouagadougou
13,200,000 2.8
Burundi 10,745 8 Bujumbura
6,100,000 2.2
Cameroon 183,568 48 Yaounde
15,700,000 2.2
Cape Verde 1,556 53 Praia
500,000 2.3
Central African 240,533 39 Bangui
Republic 3,700,000 1.9
Chad 495,753 2.1 N' Djamena
9,300,000 3.2
Comoros 861 29 Moroni
600,000 3.5
Congo 132,046 41 Brazzaville
Republic 3,700,000 2.9
Congo 905,351 29 Kinshasa
Democratic Rep. 56,600,000 3.1
Cote d'lvoire 124,502 46 Yamoussoukro
17,000,000 1.9
Djibouti 8,958 83 Djibouti
700,000 2.0
Egypt * 386,660 43 Cairo
72,100,000 2.1
Equatorial 10,830 37 Malabo
Guinea 500,000 2.5
Eritrea 45,405 16 Asmara
4,400,000 2.8
Ethiopia 426,371 15 Addis Ababa
70,700,000 2.7
Gabon 103,347 73 Libreville
1,300,000 2.2
Gambia 4,363 37 Banjul
1,500,000 2.9
Ghana 92,100 37 Accra
20,500,000 2.1
Guinea 94,927 26 Conakry
9,000,000 2.7
Guinea-Bissau 13,946 22 Bissau
1,300,000 2.5
Kenya 224,081 20 Nairobi
31,600,000 2.0
Lesotho 11,718 17 Maseru
1,800,000 1.1
Liberia 43,000 45 Monrovia
3,300,000 3.1
Libya 679,359 86 Tripoli
5,500,000 2.4
Madagascar 226,656 22 Antananarivo
17,000,000 3.0
Malawi 45,745 14 Lilongwe
11,700,000 2.6
Mali 478,838 26 Bamako
11,600,000 3.0
Mauritania 395,954 55 Nouakchott,
2,900,000 2.9
Mauritius 788 43 Port Louis
1,200,000 0.9
Morocco 172,413 57 Rabat
30,400,000 1.6
Mozambique 309,494 29 Maputo
17,500,000 1.3
Namibia 318,259 27 Windhoek
1,900,000 2.1
Niger 489,189 17 Niamey
12,100,000 3.5
Nigeria 356,668 36 Abuja
133,900,000 2.8
Rwanda 10,170 5 Kigali
1.9
Sao Tome 371 44 Sao Tome
& Principe 200,000 3.5
Senegal 75,954 43 Dakar
10,600,000 2.7
Seychelles 174 63 Victoria
100,000 1.2
Sierra Leone 27,699 37 Freetown
5,700,000 2.5
Somalia 246,201 28 Mogadishu
8,000,000 2.9
South Africa 471,444 53 Cape Town,
44,000,000 0.9 Pretoria, and
Bloemfontein
Sudan 967,494 27 Khartoum
38,100,000 2.8
Swaziland 6,703 25 Mbabane and
1,200,000 1.5 Lobamda
Tanzania 364,900 22 Dar es
35,400,000 2.3 Salaam
Togo 21,927 31 Lome
5,400,000 2.7
Tunisia 63,170 63 Tunis
9,900,000 1.1
Uganda 93,066 12 Kampala
25,300,000 3.0
Zambia 290,583 36 Lusaka
10,900,000 2.2
Zimbabwe 150,873 32 Harare
12,600,000 1.2
COUNTRY MAJOR FORM OF GOVERNMENT
LANGUAGES & HEAD
Algeria Arabic, French, Dominant party; President
Berber dialects Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Angola Portuguese, Bantu, Presidential-parliamentary
others (transitional); President
Jose Eduardo dos Santos
Benin French, Fon, Presidential-legislative
Yoruba, others democracy; President
Mathieu Kerekou
Botswana English, Setswana Parliamentary democracy
and traditional chiefs;
President Festus Mogae
Burkina Faso French, Sudanic Presidential-parliamentary
language (transitional); President
Blaise Compaore
Burundi Kirundi, French, Dictatorship
Swahili (military-dominated);
President Domitien
Ndayizeye
Cameroon English, French, Dominant party;
African languages President Paul Biya
Cape Verde Portuguese, Crioulo Presidential-parliamentary
democracy; Prime
Minister Jose Maria Neves
Central African French, Sangho, Presidential-parliamentary
Republic Arabic, Hunsa, democracy; President
Swahilii Francois Bozize
Chad French, Arabic, Presidential-parliamentary
Sara, Sango, (military-dominated);
others President Idriss Deby
Comoros Arabic, French, Presidential
Comoran (military-dominated);
Col. Assoumani Azali
Congo French, Lingala, Military (transitional);
Republic Monokutuba, President Denis
kikongo, others Sassou-Nguesso
Congo French Lingala , Military backed
Democratic Rep. Kingwana, dictatorship; President
Kikongo, Tshiluba Joseph Kabila
Cote d'lvoire French, Dioula, Presidential-parliamentary
others (transitional); President
Laurent Gbagbo
Djibouti French, Arabic, Dominant party;
Somali, Afar President Ismail Omar
Guelleh
Egypt * Arabic, English, Dominant party;
French President Hosni Mubarak
Equatorial Spanish, French, Presidential
Guinea pidgin English, (military-dominated);
Fang, Bubi, lbo President Teodoro Obiang
Nguema Mbasogo
Eritrea Amharic, Arabic, Dominant party;
Afar, Tigrinya, President Isaias Afwerki
Tigre, many others
Ethiopia Amharic, Tigrinya, Dominant party;
Arabic, Orominga, Prime Minister
English, others Meles Zenawi
Gabon French, Fang, Dominant party;
Myene, Bateke, President Omar
others Bongo
Gambia English, Mandinka, Presidential-legislative
Wolof, Fula, (transitional); President
others Yahya Jammeh
Ghana English , Akan, Presidential-parliamentary
others democracy; President
John Agyekum Kufuor
Guinea French, various Dominant party;
African languages President Lansana
Conte
Guinea-Bissau Portuguese, Presidential-legislative
Criolo, others (transitional); Military
leader pending elections
Kenya English, Swahili, Presidential-parliamentary
many others President Mwai Kibaki
Lesotho Sesotho, English, Parliamentary and
Zulu, Xhosa traditional chiefs
(transitional); Prime
Minister Pakalitha Mosisili
Liberia English, Niger-Congo Presidential-parliamentary
language democracy (transitional);
Gyude Bryant, chairman
of interim government
Libya Arabic, Italian, One-party dictatorship;
English Colonel Muammar
al-Qaddafi
Madagascar French Malagasy Presidential-parliamentary
democracy President
Marc Ravalomanana
Malawi English, chichewa, Presidential-legislative
others democracy; President
Bakili Muluzi
Mali French, Bambara, Presidential-parliamentary
many others democracy; President
Amadou Toumani Toure
Mauritania Hasaniya Arabic, Presidential-parliamentary
Pular, Soninke, (military-influenced);
Wolot, Trench President Maaouya
Ould Sid Ahmed Taya
Mauritius English, Creole, Parliamentary democracy;
French, Hindi, Prime Minister Sir Anerood
Urdu, Hakka, Jugnauth
Bojpoori
Morocco Arabic, Berber Contitutional monarchy;
dialects, French King Muhammed VI
Mozambique Portuguese, African Presidential-parliamentary
language democracy; President
Joaquim Chissano
Namibia Afrikaans, German Presidential-parliamentary
English, local democracy; President
African language Sam Nujoma
Niger French, Hausa, Presidential-parliamentary
Djerma democracy (transitional);
President Mamadou
Tandja
Nigeria English, Hausa, Presidential-legislative
Yoruba, Ibo democracy (transitional);
Fulani President Olusegun
Obasanjo
Rwanda Kiryarwanda, Dominant party;
French, English President Paul Kagame
Kiswahili
Sao Tome Portuguese Presidential-parliamentary
& Principe democracy: President
Fradique de Menezes
Senegal French, Walof, Presidential-parliamentary
Pulaar, Dola, democracy; President
Mandingo Abdoulaye Wade
Seychelles English, French, Dominant party;
Creole President France-Albert
Rene
Sierra Leone English, Mende, Presidential-legislative
Temme, Krio democracy; President
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
Somalia Somali, Arabic, Limited government
Italian, English disputed by warlords
South Africa English, Afrikaans, Parliamentary democracy;
Zulu, Xhosa, President Thabo Mbeki
Swazi, Sotho,
others
Sudan Arabic, Nubian, Presidential-legislative
Ta Bedawie, (militay-dominated);
English, others President Omar Hassan
Ahmad al-Bashir
Swaziland English, siSwati Monarchy; King
Mswati III
Tanzania Kiswahili, English, Dominant party,
Arabic, many President Benjamin
others Mkapa
Togo French, Ewe, Dominant party;
Mina, Dagomba, President General
Kabye
Tunisia Arabic, French Gnassingbe Eyadema
Uganda English, Luganda, Dominant party; President
Swahili, others Yoweri Mwanawasa
Zambia English, Bemba, Dominant party; President
Tonga. others Zine el Abiding Ben Ali
Zimbabwe English, Shona, Dominant party;
Sindebele, others President Robert
Mugabe
COUNTRY DATE OF LITERACY PER
ORIGIN RATE (%) CAPITA GDP
% OF POP. LIFE HDI
UNDER 15 EXPECTANCY
Algeria 1962 79/61 $5,300
35 68/71 0.704
Angola 1975 56/28 $1,600
47 39/41 0.377
Benin 1960 56/27 $1,070
47 50/52 0.411
Botswana 1966 77/82 $9,500
40 36/38 0.614
Burkina Faso 1960 37/11 $1,080
49 43/46 0.330
Burundi 1962 59/45 $600
48 42/44 0.337
Cameroon 1960 85/73 $1,700
43 47/49 0.499
Cape Verde 1975 86/69 $1,400
41 66/73 0.727
Central African 1960 63/40 $1,300
Republic 44 42/44 0.363
Chad 1960 56/40 $1,100
48 47/51 0.376
Comoros 1975 64/49 $720
46 54/59 0.528
Congo 1960 90/78 $900
Republic 46 49/51 0.502
Congo 1960 76/55 $610
Democratic Rep. 43 46/51 0.363
Cote d'lvoire 1960 58/44 $1,500
46 41/46 0.396
Djibouti 1977 78/58 $1,300
43 42/44 0.462
Egypt * 1922 68/47 $3,900
36 66/70 0.648
Equatorial 1968 93/78 $2,700
Guinea 43 52/56 0.664
Eritrea 1993 70/48 $740
44 52/57 0.446
Ethiopia 1000 B.C. 50/35 $750
44 41/43 0.359
Gabon 1960 74/53 $5,700
42 57/61 0.653
Gambia 1965 48/33 $1,800
45 51/55 0.463
Ghana 1957 83/67 $2,100
43 56/58 0.567
Guinea 1958 50/22 $2,000
45 48/50 0.425
Guinea-Bissau 1973 58/27 $800
44 43/46 0.373
Kenya 1963 91/80 $1,020
44 46/46 0.489
Lesotho 1966 75/95 $2,700
43 37/38 0.510
Liberia 1847 73/42 $1,100
43 47/50 NA
Libya 1951 92/72 $7,600
36 73/78 0.783
Madagascar 1960 76/63 $760
45 53/57 0.468
Malawi 1964 76/50 $670
46 39/40 0.387
Mali 1960 54/40 $860
47 44/47 0.337
Mauritania 1960 52/32 $1,900
44 53/55 0.454
Mauritius 1968 89/83 $11,000
25 68/75 0.779
Morocco 1956 64/39 $3,900
32 68/72 0.606
Mozambique 1975 64/33 $1,000
45 33/34 0.356
Namibia 1990 84/84 $6,900
43 50/49 0.627
Niger 1960 26/10 $830
50 45/46 0.292
Nigeria 1960 76/61 $875
44 52/52 0.463
Rwanda 1962 76/65 $1,200
43 39/41 0.422
Sao Tome 1975 85/62
& Principe 48 64/67 0.639
Senegal 1960 50/31 $1,500
44 52/55 0.430
Seychelles 1976 56/60 $7,800
29 67/73 0.840
Sierra Leone 1961 45/18 $580
45 40/46 0.275
Somalia 1960 50/26 $550
45 45/48 NA
South Africa 1910 87/86 $10,000
34 53/54 0.684
Sudan 1956 72/51 $1,420
45 56/58 0.503
Swaziland 1968 83/81 $4,400
42 47/44 0.547
Tanzania 1964 86/71 $630
45 44/46 0.400
Togo 1960 75/47 $1,500
46 53/56 0.501
Tunisia 1956 84/64 $6,500
29 71/75 0.740
Uganda 1962 80/60 $1,260
51 43/46 0.489
Zambia 1964 87/75 $890
47 41/40 0.386
Zimbabwe 1980 94/87 $2,400
40 43/40 0.496
Europe
AREA (SQ MI) URBAN POP.%
COUNTRY PUPULATION POP. RISE CAPITAL
%YEAR
Albania 11,100 46 Tirana
3,100,000 1.1
Andorra 174 92 Andorra
100,000 0.8 la Vella
Austria 32,378 54 Vienna
8,200,000 0.0
Belarus 80,154 71 Minsk
9,900,000 -0.5
Belgium 11,787 97 Brussels
10,400,000 0.1
Bosnia & 19,741 40 Sarajevo
Herzegovina 3,900,000 0.2
Bulgaria 42,822 69 Sofia
7,500,000 -0.6
Croatia 21,830 54 Zagreb
4,300,000 -0.2
Czech 30,448 77 Prague
Republic 10,200,000 -0.2
Denmark 16,637 72 Copenhagen
5,400,000 0
Estonia 17,413 67 Tallinn
1,400,000 -0.4
Finland 130,560 62 Helsinki
5,200,000 62
France 212,934 0.1 Paris
59,800,000 74
Germany 137,830 0.4 Berlin
82,600,000 86
Greece 50,950 -0.1 Athens
11,000,000 59
Hungary 35,919 0.0 Budapest
10,100,000 65
Iceland 39,768 -0.4 Reykjavik
300,000 94
Ireland 27,135 0.8 Dublin
4,000,000 58
Italy 116,320 0.7 Rome
57,200,000 90
Latvia 24,942 -0.1 Riga
2,300,000 68
Liechtenstein 62 -0.5 Vaduz
40,000 21
Lithuania 25,174 0.5 Vilnius
3,500,000 67
Luxembourg 999 88 Luxembourg
500,000 0.4
Macedonia 9,927 59 Skopje
2,100,000 0.5
Malta 124 91 Valletta
400,000 0.2
Moldova 13,012 46 Chisinau
4,300,000 -0.1
Monaco 1 100 Monaco
30,000 0.60
Netherlands 15,768 62 Amsterdam
16,200,000 0.4
Norway 125,050 74 Oslo
4,600,000 0.3
Poland 124,807 62 Warsaw
38,600,000 0.0
Portugal 35,514 48 Lisbon
10,400,000 0.1
Romania 92,042 55 Bucharest
21,600,000 -0.3
Russia 6,592,819 73 Moscow
145,500,000 -0.7
San Marino 23 84 San Marino
30,000 0.4
Serbia & 39,448 52 Belgrade
Montenegro 10,700,000 0.2
Slovakia 18,923 57 Bratislava
5,400,000 0
Slovenia 7,819 50 Ljubljana
2,000,000 -0.1
Spain 195,363 64 Madrid
41,300,000 0.1
Sweden 173,730 84 Stockholm
9,000,000 0.0
Switzerland 15,942 68 Bern
7,300,000 0.2
Ukraine 233,089 67 Kiev
47,800,000 -0.8
United 94,548 90 London
Kingdom 59,200,000 0.1
(England,
Scotland,
Wales,
N. Ireland)
Vatican City 109 acres NA Vatican City
911 1
MAJOR FORMS OF GOVERNMENT
COUNTRY LANGUAGE & HEAD
Albania Albanian, Greek Presidential-parliamentary
democracy
President Alfred Moisiu
Andorra Catalan, French, Presidential-parliamentary
Castilian democracy
Executive Council President
Marc Forne Molne
Austria German Parliamentary democracy;
Chancellor
Wolfgang Schussel
Belarus Byelorussian, Presidential dictatorship;
Russian, others President
Aleksandr Lukashenko
Belgium Flemish. French. Parliamentary democracy,
German Prime Minister
Guy Verhofstadt
Bosnia & Serbo-Croatian Presidential-parliamentary
Herzegovina (transitional);
rotating Chairman
of the Presidency (2)
Bulgaria Bulgarian, others Parliamentary democracy;
Prime Minister Simeon
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Croatia Serbo-Croatian Presidential-parliamentary
democracy
President Stjepan Mesic
Czech Czech , Slovak Parliamentary denmcracy:
Republic Prime Minister
Vladimir Spidla
Denmark Danish, Parliamentary democracy;
Greenlandic, Prime Minister Anders
Faroese, German Fogh Rasmussen
Estonia Estonian, Parliamentary democracy;
Ukrainian, Prime Minister Juhan Parts
Russian, others
Finland Finnish, Swedish, Presidential-parliamentary
Lapp, Russian democracy
President Tarja Halonen
France French, Presidential-parliarnentary
regional dialects democracy
President Jacques Chirac
Germany German Parliamentary democracy;
Chancellor Gerhard Schroder
Greece Greek , English, Parliamentary democracy;
French Prime Minister
Konstandinos Simitis
Hungary Hungarian, others Parliamentary democracy;
President Ferenc Madl
Iceland Icelandic Parliamentary democracy;
Prime Minister David Oddsson
Ireland English. Gaelic Parliamentary democracy;
Prime Minister Bertie Ahern
Italy Italian, German, Parliamentary democracy:
French, Slovene Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi
Latvia Lettish, Parliamentary democracy;
Lithuanian, Prime Minister Einars Repse
Russian, others
Liechtenstein German. Alemannic Constitutional monarchy:
dialect Prince Hans Adam II
Lithuania Lithuanian, Parliamentary democracy;
Polish, President Rolandas Paksas
Russian
Luxembourg Luxembourgan, Parlia,entary democracy;
German, French, Prime Minister
English Jean-ClaudeJuncker
Macedonia Macedonian, Parliamentary democracy;
Albanian, others Prime Minister
Branko Crvenkovski
Malta Maltese, English Parliamentary deniocracy,
Prime Minister Eddie
Fenech Adami
Moldova Moldovan, Parliamentary democracy;
Russian, Gagauz President Vladimir Voronin
Monaco French, English, Constitutional monarchy;
Italian Prince Rainier III
Monegasque
Netherlands Dutch Parliamentary democracy;
Prime Minister Jan
Peter Balkenende
Norway Norwegian, Lapp, Parliamentary democracy;
Finnish Prime Minister Kjell
Magne Bondevik
Poland Polish Presidential-parliamentary
democracy
President Aleksander
Kwasniewski
Portugal Portuguese Presidential-parliamentary
democracy
Prime Minister Jose Manuel
Durao Barraso
Romania Romanian, Presidential-parliamentary
Hungarian democracy
German Prime Minister Adrian Nastase
Russia Russian, others Presidential-parliamentary
democracy
President Vladimir Putin
San Marino Italian Parliamentary democracy:
Co-Captains, Regent elected
every six months from
the Great and General Council
Serbia & Serbo-Croatian, Parliamentary democracy
Montenegro Albanian, (transitional);
President Svetozar Marovic
Slovakia Slovak, Hungarian Parliamentary democracy; '
Prime Minister
Mikulas Dzurinda
Slovenia Slovenian, Serbo- Parliamentary democracy;
Croatian, others Prime Minister Anton Rop
Spain Spanish, Catalan, Parliamentary democracy;
Galician, Basque Prime Minister
Jose Maria Aznar
Sweden Swedish, Lapp, Parliamentary democracy;
Finnish Prime Minister Gman Persson
Switzerland German, French, Parliamentary democracy;
Italian, Romansch rotating President from
Romansch, others 7-member Federal Council
Ukraine Ukranian, Presidential-parliamentary
Russian, Romanian, democracy
Romanian, Polish President Leonid Kuchma
United Kingdom Hungarian Parliamentary democracy;
(England, Prime Minister Tony Blair
Scotland,
Wales,
N. Ireland)
Vatican City Italian, Latin, Papal state; Pope John Paul II
others
DATE OF ORIGIN LITERACY RATE (%) PER CAPITA
COUNTRY % OF POP. LIFE GDP
UNDER 15 EXPECTANCY HDI
Albania 1912 93/80 $4,500
32 72/76 0.735
Andorra 1278 99 $19,000
15 NA NA
Austria 1156 98 $27,700
16 76/82 0.929
Belarus 1991 99/99 $8,200
18 63/75 0.804
Belgium 1830 98 $29,000
18 78/81 0.937
Bosnia & 1992 NA $1,900
Herzegovina 19 69/74 0.777
Bulgaria 1908 99/98 $6,600
15 69/75 0.795
Croatia 1991 99/98 $8,800
17 71/78 0.818
Czech 1993 99 $15,300
Republic 16 72/78 0.861
Denmark 900s 99 $29,000
19 75/79 0.930
Estonia 1991 99/99 $10,900
17 65/76 0.833
Finland 1917 99 $26,200
18 75/82 0.930
France 486 99/99 $25,700
19 76/83 0.925
Germany 1871 99 $26,600
15 75/81 0.921
Greece 1829 99/97 $19,000
14 76/81 0.892
Hungary 1001 99/99 $13,300
16 68/76 0.837
Iceland 1944 99 $25,000
23 78/82 0.942
Ireland 1921 98 $30,500
21 75/80 0.930
Italy 1861 99/98 $25,000
14 77/83 0.916
Latvia 1991 99/99 $8,300
17 65/76 0.811
Liechtenstein 1719 99/99 $25,000
18 NA NA
Lithuania 1991 99/99 $8,400
19 66/77 0.824
Luxembourg 1839 99/99 $44,000
19 75/81 0.930
Macedonia 1991 NA $5,000
22 71/75 0.784
Malta 1964 92/94 $17,000
19 74/80 0.856
Moldova 1991 99/99 $2,500
22 65/72 0.700
Monaco 1419 99 $27,000
15 NA NA
Netherlands 1579 99 $26,900
19 76/81 0.938
Norway 1905 99 $31,800
20 76/82 0.944
Poland 1918 99/99 $9,500
18 70/78 0.841
Portugal 1140 96/91 $18,000
16 74/80 0.896
Romania 1878 99/98 $7,400
18 67/74 0.773
Russia 1991 99/99 $9,300
18 59/72 0.779
San Marino 301 97/95 $34,600
15 77/84 NA
Serbia & 1992 97/89 $2,370
Montenegro 20 70/75 NA
Slovakia 1993 NA $12,200
19 70/78 0.836
Slovenia 1991 99/99 $18,000
16 72/80 0.881
Spain 1492 99/97 $20,700
15 76/83 0.918
Sweden 1523 99 $25,400
18 78/82 0.941
Switzerland 1291 99 $31,700
17 77/83 0.932
Ukraine 1991 99/99 $4,500
17 62/74 0.766
United circa 99 $25,300
Kingdom 900 75/80 0.930
(England, 19
Scotland,
Wales,
N. Ireland)
Vatican City 1929 100 NA
NA NA NA
Middle East *
COUNTRY AREA (SQ MI) URBAN CAPITAL
POP.%
POPULATION POP RISE
%/YEAR
Bahrain 266 87 Manama
700,000 1.8
Cyprus 3,571 66 Nicosia
900,000 0.6
Egypt 386,660 43 Cairo
72,100,000 2.1
Iran 630,575 66 Tehran
66,600,000 1.2
Iraq 169,236 68 Baghdad
24,200,000 2.5
Israel(4) 8,131 91 Jerusalem
6,700,000 1.5
Jordan 34,444 79 Amman
5,500,000 2.4
Kuwait 6,880 100 Kuwait City
2,400,000 1.7
Lebanon 4,015 88 Beirut
4,200,000 1.4
Oman 82,031 72 Muscat
2,600,000 2.5
Qatar 4,247 91 Doha
600,000 1.6
Saudi Arabia 829,996 83 Riyadh
24,100,000 2.9
Syria 71,498 50 Damascus
17,500,000 2.4
Turkey 299,158 59 Ankara
71,200,000 1.5
United Arab 32,278 78 Abu Dhabi
Emirates 3,900,000 1.4
Yemen 203,849 26 Sanaa
19,400,000 3.3
COUNTRY MAJOR FORM OF GOVERNMENT
LANGUAGES & HEAD
Bahrain Arabic, English, Monarchy; Emir Hamad
Farsi, Urdu bin 'Isa AI Khalifah
Cyprus Greek, Turkish, Presidential-parliamentary
English democracy; President
Tassos Papadopoulos
Egypt Arabic, English, Dominant party;
French President Hosni Mubarak
Iran Farsi, Turkic, Presidential-parliamentary
Kurdish, Luri, under Islamic religious
others control: President Mohammad
Iraq Arabic, Kurdish, Khatami Transitional Interim
Assyrian, Armenian Governing Council
Israel(4) Hebrew, Arabic, Presidential-parliamentary
English democracy; Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon
Jordan Arabic, English Constitutional monarchy;
King Abdullah II
Kuwait Arabic, English Monarchy; Emir Sheikh Jabir
AI Ahmad AI Jabir AI Sabah
Lebanon Arabic, French, Presidential- parliamentary
Armenian, English with heavy Syrian influence;
President Emil Lahoud
Oman Arabic, English, Monarchy; Prime Minister
Baluchi, Urdu, and Sultan Qabus
others Arabic bin Said AI Said
Qatar Arabic, English Monarchy; Emir Hamad
bin Khalitah AI Thani
Saudi Arabia Arabic Monarchy; King and Prirne
Minister Fahd bin
Abd al-Aziz Al-Sand
Syria Arabic, Kurdish, Dominant party
Armenian, French, (military-dominated);
others President Bashar al-Assad
Turkey Turkish, Kurdish, Parliamentary democracy;
Arabic Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan
United Arab Arabic, Farsi, Federation of traditional
Emirates English, Hindi, monarchies; President
Urdu Sheikh Zayid bin Sultan
AI Nahayyan
Yemen Arabic Dominant party;
President Aii
Abdullah Saleh
COUNTRY DATE OF LITERACY PER
ORIGIN RATE (%) CAPITA GDP
% OF POP. LIFE
UNDER 15 EXPECTANCY HDI
Bahrain 1971 92/85 $14,000
28 73/75 0.839
Cyprus 1960 99/96 $15,000 Greek(3)
22 75/80 0.891
Egypt 1922 68/47 $3,900
36 66/70 0.648
Iran 1502 56/24 $2,400
33 56/59 NA
Iraq 1932 86/73 $7,000
47 68/70 0.719
Israel(4) 1948 97/94 $19,000
28 77/81 0.905
Jordan 1946 96/86 $4,300
40 69/71 0.743
Kuwait 1961 85/82 $15,000
26 77/79 0.820
Lebanon 1943 93/82 $5,400
28 72/75 0.752
Oman 1650 83/67 $8,300
34 72/75 0.755
Qatar 1971 81/85 $21,500
26 70/75 0.826
Saudi Arabia 1932 85/71 $10,500
43 11/73 0.769
Syria 1946 90/64 $18,000
40 69/71 NA
Turkey 1923 94/79 $7,000
30 66/71 0.734
United Arab 1971 76/82 $2 2,000
Emirates 26 73/77 0.816
Yemen 1990 71/30 $1,840
48 58/62 0.470
Asia
COUNTRY AREA(SQ MI) URBAN Capital
POPULATION POP. RISE
%/YEAR
Afghanistan 251,772 22 Kabul
28,700,000 2.4
Armenia 11,506 64 Yerevan
3,200,000 0.6
Azerbaijan 33,436 51 Baku
8,200,000 0.8
Bangladesh 55,598 23 Dhaka
146,700,000 2.2
Bhutan 18,147 16 Thimphu
900,000 2.5
Brunei 2,228 67 Bandar Seri
400,000 1.9 Begawan
Cambodia 69,900 16 Phnom Penh
12,600,000 1.8
China 3,696,100 39 Beijing
1,288,700,000 0.6
East Timor 5,741 8 Dili
800,000 1.3
Georgia 26,911 58 Tbilisi
4,700,00 -0.0
India 1,269,340 28 New Delhi
1,068,600,000 1.7
Indonesia 735,355 40 Jakarta
220,500,000 1.6
Japan 145,869 78 Tokyo
127,500,000 0.1
Kazakhstan 1,045,151 56 Astana
14,800,000 0.5
Korea, North 46,541 59 Pyongyang
22,700,000 0.6
Korea South 38,324 79 Seoul
47,900,000 0.7
Kyrgyzstan 76,641 35 Bishkek
5,000,000 1.3
Laos 91,429 17 Vientiane
5,600,000 2.3 Kuala
Malaysia 127,317 57 Lumpur
25,100,000 12.1
Maldives 116 27 Male
300,000 2.0
Mongolia 604,826 57 Ulaanbaatar
2,500,000 1.1
Myanmar 261,228 27 Yangon
(Burma) 49,500,000 1.4 (Rangoon)
Nepal 56,826 11 Kathmandu
25,200,000 2.4
Pakistan 307,375 34 lslamabad
149,100,000 2.7
PhiLippines 115,830 47 Manila
81,600,000 2.2
Singapore 239 100 Singapore
4,200,000 0.7
Sri Lanka 25,332 30 Colombo
19,300,000 1.3
Taiwan 13,969 78 Taipei
22,600,000 0.5
Tajikistan 55,251 27 Dushanbe
6,600,000 1.4
Thailand 198,116 31 Bangkok
63,100,000 0.7
Turkmenistan 188,456 44 Ashgabat
5,700,000 1.3
Uzbekistan 172,741 38 Tashkent
25,700,000 1.5
Vietnam 128,066 25 Hanoi
80,800,000 1.3
COUNTRY MAJOR FORM OF GOVERNMENT
LANGUAGES & HEAD
Afghanistan Pashtu, Afghan Persian, Transitional ; President
Turkic, others Hamid Karzai
Armenia Armenian, Russian, Presidential-
others parliamentary democracy;
President Robert
Kocharyan
Azerbaijan Azeri, Russian, Presidential (Dominant
Armenian, others party); President Heydar
Aliyev
Bangladesh Bengali, English Parliamentary democracy;
Prime Minister Khaleda
Zia
Bhutan Dzongkha, Tibetan, Monarchy: King Jigme
and Nepalese dialects Singye Wangchuck
Brunei Malay, English, Monarchy; Sultan and
Chinese Prime Minister Sir Muda
Hassanal Bolkiah
Mu'izzadin Waddaulah
Cambodia Khmer, French Dominant party;
Prime Minister Hun Sen
China Mandarin, other Communist one party
Chinese dialects, state; President Hu
other languages Jintao
East Timor Tetun, Portuguese, Presidential-
Indonesian, English parliamentary democracy
President (transitional);
Xanana Gusmao
Georgia Georgian, Russian, Presidential-
Armenian, Azeri parliamentary democracy;
Ossetian, others President Eduard
Shevardnadze
India Hindu, English, Parliamentary democracy;
many others Prime Minister Atal
Bihari Vajpayee
Indonesia Bahasa Indonesian, Parliamentary democracy;
English, Dutch, President Megawati
others Sukarnoputri
Japan Japanese Parliamentary democracy;
Prime Minister Junichiro
Koizumi
Kazakhstan Kazakh, Rusian, Dominant party; President
Ukrainian, others Nursultan Nazarbayev
Korea, North Korean Communist dictatorship;
General Secretary Kim
Jong II
Korea South Korean, English Presidential-
parliamentary democracy;
President No Muh-hyun
Kyrgyzstan Kirghiz, Russian Presidential
dictatorship; President
Askar Akayev
Laos Lao, French, Communist one-party
English, others state; President
Khamtai Siphandon
Malaysia Malay, English, Dominant party; Prime
Chinese dialects, Minister Datuk Seri
many others Mahathir bin Mohamad
Maldives Maldivian Divehi, Presidential
English dictatorship; President
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
Mongolia Khalkha Mongol, Presidential-
Turkic, Russian, parliamentary democracy;
Chinese Prime Minister Nambaryn
Enkhbayar
Myanmar Burmese, others Military; Prime Minister
[Burma] General Than Shwe
Nepal Nepali, others Parliamentary democracy
and Constitutional
monarchy; Prime Minister
Surya Bahadur Thapa
Pakistan Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Military; President
Siraiki, English, General Pervez Musharraf
others
Philippines Filipino, English Presidential-legislative
democracy; President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Singapore Chinese, Malay, Dominant party; Prime
Tamil, English Minister Goh Chok Tong
Sri Lanka Tamil, Sinhala, Presidential-
English parliamentary democracy;
President Chandrika
Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
Taiwan Mandarin Chinese Presidential-
Taiwanese, others parliamentary democracy;
President Chen Shui-bian
Tajikistan Tajik, Russian Presidential
(traditional); President
Emomali Rahmonov
Thailand Thai, English, Parliamentary democracy;
regional dialects Prime Minister Thaksin
Shinawatra
Turkmenistan Turkmen, Uzbek, Presidential
Russian, others dictatorship; President
Saparmurad Niyazov
Uzbekistan Uzbek. Russian, Presidential (dominant
Tajlk, others party); President
Islam Karimov
Vietnam Vietnamese, French, Communist one-party
Chinese, English, state; Prime Minister
Khmer, others Phan Van Khai
COUNTRY DATE OF LITERACY PER
ORIGIN RATE (%) CAPITA GDP
% OF POP. LIFE HDI
UNDER15 EXPECTANCY
Afghanistan 1919 51/21 $700
43 47/45 NA
Armenia 1918 99/98 $3,800
24 70/74 0.729
Azerbaijan 1991 99/96 $3,500
29 69/75 0.74
Bangladesh 1971 54/32 $1,700
40 59/59 0.50
Bhutan 1949 56/28 $1,300
39 66/66 0.511
Brunei 1984 95/89 $18,600
31 74/79 0.87
Cambodia 1949 81/60 $1,500
43 54/58 0.556
China 1912 93/79 $4,400
22 69/73 0.72
East Timor 2002 48 500
44 48/49 NA
Georgia 1991 99/98 $3,100
20 75/80 0.75
India 1947 70/48 $2,540
36 62/64 0.59
Indonesia 1945 93/84 $3,100
31 66/70 0.68
Japan 660 B.C. 99 28,000
14 78/85 0.932
Kazakhstan 1991 99/98 $6,300
29 58/71 0.77
Korea, North 1945 99/99 $1,000
27 61/66 NA
Korea, South 1945 99/97 $19,400
21 72/80 0.88
Kyrgyzstan 1991 99/96 $2,800
35 65/72 0.73
Laos 1949 68/38 $1,700
43 52/55 0.53
Malaysia 1957 92/85 $9,300
34 70/75 0.79
Maldives 1965 97/97 $3,900
39 71/72 $0.75
Mongolia 1921 99/99 $1,840
36 63/68 0.66
Myanmar 1948 89/78 1,600
[Burma] 33 54/60 0.55
Nepal 1768 63/28 $1,400
41 59/58 0.50
Pakistan 1947 60/31 $2,100
42 60/60 0.50
Philippines 1946 96/96 $4,200
37 67/72 0.75
Singapore 1965 97/90 $24,000
21 77/81 0.88
Sri Lanka 1948 95/90 $3,700
27 70/74 0.730
Taiwan 1947 93/79 $3,500
20 73/79 0.69
Tajikistan 1991 99/99 $1,250
42 66/71 0.68
Thailand 1238 98/95 $6,900
23 68/75 0.77
Turkmenistan 1991 99/97 $5,500
38 63/70 0.75
Uzbekistan 1991 99/99 $2,500
38 68/73 0.729
Vietnam 1945 96/92 $2,250
30 70/73 0.688
Oceania
COUNTRY AREA (SQ MI) URBAN CAPITAL
POPULATION POP. %
POP.RISE
%/YEAR
Australia 2,988,888 85 Canberra
19,900,000 0.6
Fiji 7,054 46 Suva
900,000 1.9
Kiribati 282 37 Tarawa
100,000 2.5
Marshall 69 68 Majuro
Islands 100,000 3.7
Micronesia 270 27 Palikir
100,000 2.3
Nauru 9 100 Yaren District
10,000 2.1
New Zealand 104,452 77 Wellington
4,000,000 0.7
Palau 178 71 Koror
20,000 1.3
Papua New 178,703 15 Port
Guinea 5,500,000 2.5 Moresby
Samoa 1,097 21 Apia
200,000 2.4
Solomon 11,158 13 Honiara
Islands 500,000 3.1
Tonga 290 32 Nuku'alofa
100,000 2.1
Tuvalu 10 42 Funafuti
10,000 14
Vanuatu 4,707 21 Port-Vila
200,000 2.7
COUNTRY MAJOR FORM OF GOVERNMENT
LANGUAGES & HEAD
Australia English, Aboriginal Parliamentary
languages democracy; Prime
Minister John Howard
Fiji English,Fijian, Parliamentary democracy
Hindustani and traditional chiefs;
Prime Minister Laisenia
Qarase
Kiribati English, Gilbertese Presidential-
legislative democracy;
President Anote Tong
Marshall English, Marshallese Parliamentary democracy
Islands dialects, Japanese and traditional chiefs;
President Kessai Note
Micronesia English, Trukese, Parliamentary democracy;
Pohnpein, Yapese, President Joseph J.
Kosraean Urusemal
Nauru Nauruan, English Parliamentary democracy;
President Rene Harris
New Zealand English, Maori Parliamentary democracy;
Prime Minister Helen
Clark
Palau English, Presidential democracy
Sonsorol'ese, and traditional chiefs;
Palauan, others President Tommy
Remengesau
Papua New English, pidgin Parliamentary democracy
Guinea English, Motu, Prime Minister Sir
many others Michael Somare
Samoa Samoan, English Parliamentary democracy
and traditional chiefs;
Prime Minister Tuilaepa
Sailele Malielegaoi
Solomon Melanesian pidgin, Parliamentary democracy;
Islands English, others Prime Minister Sir
Allan Kamakeza
Tonga Tongan, English Monarchy; King
Taufa'ahau Tupou IV
Parliamentary democracy;
Tuvalu Tuvaluan, English Prime Minister Saufatu
Sopoanga Parliamentary
democracy;
Vanuatu English, French, Prime Minister Edward
Bislama Natapei
COUNTRY DATE OF LITERACY PER
ORIGIN RATE (%) CAPITA GDP
% OF POP. LIFE HDI
UNDER 15 EXPECTANCY
Australia 1901 99/99 $27,000
20 77/82 0.939
Fiji 1970 96/92 $5,500
35 65/69 0.754
Kiribati 1979 NA $840
41 59/65 NA
Marshall 1986 94/94 $1,600
Islands 43 66/69 NA
Micronesia 1986 91/88 $2,000
40 67/69 NA
Nauru 1968 NA $5,000
41 57/65 NA
New Zealand 1907 99 $20,200
22 76/81 0.917
Palau 1994 93/90 $9,000
27 66/72 NA
Papua New 1975 72/59 $2,300
Guinea 39 56/58 0.548
Samoa 1962 99/99 $5,600
41 66/73 0.775
Solomon 1978 NA $1,700
Islands 44 69/74 0.632
Tonga 1970 98/99 $2,200
41 67/68 NA
Tuvalu 1978 NA $1,100
34 64/69 NA
Vanuatu 1980 57/48 $2,900
42 66/69 0.568
(1)A single figure represents a percentage for the population as a
whole; breakdown by gender not available
(2)Bosnia has a three-member collective presidency (one Croat, one
Muslim, and one Serb). Chairman rotates every nine months.
(3)Figures are broken down into Greek and Turkish populations,
respectively.
(4)Israel's area and population do not include the occupied
territories of Gaza and the West Bank.
* Because Egypt is located in Africa but is often thought of as
part of the Middle East, it is listed in both places.
Sources: For area, population, urban population, annual population
rise, percent of population under 15 and life expectancy: 2003
World Population Data Sheet, Population Reference Bureau * For
capital major languages, date of origin, literacy rate and per
capita GDP: The World Factbook 2003 (Central Intelligence Agency)
* For forms of government: Based on information from Freedom in
the World2003, a publication of Freedom House (a nonprofit hurtment
and its Web site(www.state.gov) * For heads of government: Based on
information from the GeoCities "Rulers" Web site (www.rulers.org),
the State Department, the CIA Chiefs of State Web's For HDI: Human
Development Report 2003 (United Nations Development Program)
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