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  • Govt. View of Birth Rate
  • GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$)
  • Area of Countries (square miles)
  • Population Per Square Mile
  • Capital City
  Govt. View of Birth Rated GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$) Area of Countries (square miles) Population Per Square Mile Capital City
WORLD   $6,650 51,789,601 118  
MORE DEVELOPED   20,520 19,814,584 60  
LESS DEVELOPED   3,300 31,975,017 155  
LESS DEVELOPED (Excl. China)   3,210 28,278,917 130  
AFRICA   1,790 11,698,111 70  
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA   1,370 9,379,573 72  

  Govt. View of Birth Rated GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$) Area of Countries (square miles) Population Per Square Mile Capital City
NORTHERN AFRICA   3,070 3,286,031 54  
Algeria H 4,840 919,591 34 Algiers
Egypt H 3,460 386,660 181 Cairo
Libya S — 679,359 8 Tripoli
Morocco H 3,320 172,413 169 Rabat
Sudan H — 967,494 33 Khartoum
Tunisia H 5,700 63,170 154 Tunis
Western Sahara — — 97,344 3 El Aaiún

  Govt. View of Birth Rated GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$) Area of Countries (square miles) Population Per Square Mile Capital City
WESTERN AFRICA   1,000 2,370,015 101  
Benin S 920 43,483 152 Porto-Novo
Burkina Faso H 960 105,792 116 Ouagadougou
Cape Verde H 4,450 1,556 287 Cidade de Praia
Côte d’Ivoire H 1,540 124,502 132 Abidjan
Gambia H 1,550 4,363 323 Banjul
Ghana H 1,850 92,100 216 Accra
Guinea H 1,870 94,927 80 Conakry
Guinea-Bissau H 630 13,946 88 Bissau
Liberia H — 43,000 75 Monrovia
Mali H 740 478,838 23 Bamako
Mauritania S 1,550 395,954 7 Nouakchott
Niger H 740 489,189 21 Niamey
Nigeria H 770 356,668 355 Abuja
Senegal H 1,400 75,954 127 Dakar
Sierra Leone H 440 27,699 196 Freetown
Togo S 1,380 21,927 235 Lomé

  Govt. View of Birth Rated GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$) Area of Countries (square miles) Population Per Square Mile Capital City
EASTERN AFRICA   850 2,456,184 102  
Burundi H 570 10,745 579 Bujumbura
Comoros H 1,430 861 692 Moroni
Djibouti H — 8,958 71 Djibouti
Eritrea H 1,040 45,405 95 Asmara
Ethiopia H 620 426,371 153 Addis Ababa
Kenya H 1,010 224,081 133 Nairobi
Madagascar H 790 226,656 71 Antananarivo
Malawi H 570 45,745 231 Lilongwe
Mauritius S 8,950 788 1,520 Port Louis
Mayotte — — 145 1,139 Mamoudzou
Mozambique H 810 309,494 63 Maputo
Reunion — — 969 744 St. Denis
Rwanda H 880 10,170 719 Kigali
Seychelles H — 174 449 Victoria
Somalia S — 246,201 30 Mogadishu
Tanzania H 500 364,900 99 Dar-es-Salaam
Uganda H 1,160 93,066 258 Kampala
Zambia H 720 290,583 34 Lusaka
Zimbabwe H 2,690 150,873 75 Harare

  Govt. View of Birth Rated GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$) Area of Countries (square miles) Population Per Square Mile Capital City
MIDDLE AFRICA   — 2,553,151 39  
Angola S 1,100 481,351 26 Luanda
Cameroon H 1,490 183,568 86 Yaoundé
Central African Republic S 1,150 240,533 15 Bangui
Chad S 840 495,753 18 N’Djamena
Congo H 540 132,046 24 Brazzaville
Congo, Dem. Rep. Of S — 905,351 59 Kinshasa
Equatorial Guinea S 3,910 10,830 43 Malabo
Gabon L 5,280 103,347 12 Libreville
Sao Tome and Principe H — 371 445 Sao Tome

  Govt. View of Birth Rated GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$) Area of Countries (square miles) Population Per Square Mile Capital City
SOUTHERN AFRICA   8,160 1,032,730 49  
Botswana H 6,540 224,606 7 Gaborone
Lesotho H 2,350 11,718 186 Maseru
Namibia H 5,580 318,259 6 Windhoek
South Africa H 8,710 471,444 92 Pretoria
Swaziland H 4,380 6,703 165 Mbabane

  Govt. View of Birth Rated GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$) Area of Countries (square miles) Population Per Square Mile Capital City
NORTH AMERICA   31,260 7,699,508 41  
Canada S 25,440 3,849,670 8 Ottawa
United States S 31,910 3,717,796 77 Washington, DC

  Govt. View of Birth Rated GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$) Area of Countries (square miles) Population Per Square Mile Capital City
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN   6,460 7,946,684 66  
CENTRAL AMERICA   6,900 957,452 144  
Belize S 4,750 8,865 29 Belmopan
Costa Rica S 7,880 19,730 188 San Jose
El Salvador H 4,260 8,124 788 San Salvador
Guatemala H 3,630 42,042 309 Guatemala
Honduras H 2,270 43,278 155 Tegucigalpa
Mexico H 8,070 756,062 132 Mexico City
Nicaragua H 2,060 50,193 104 Managua
Panama S 5,450 29,158 100 Panama City

  Govt. View of Birth Rated GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$) Area of Countries (square miles) Population Per Square Mile Capital City
CARIBBEAN   — 90,653 410  
Antigua and Barbuda S 9,870 170 394 St. John’s
Bahamas H 15,500 5,359 58 Nassau
Barbados S 14,010 166 1,620 Bridgetown
Cuba S — 42,803 264 Havana
Dominica S 5,040 290 262 Roseau
Dominican Republic H 5,210 18,815 456 Santo Domingo
Grenada H 6,330 131 678 St. George’s
Guadeloupe — — 660 691 Basse-Terre
Haiti H 1,470 10,714 650 Port-au-Prince
Jamaica H 3,390 4,243 624 Kingston
Martinique — — 425 897 Fort-de-France
Netherlands Antilles — — 309 722 Willemstad
Puerto Rico — — 3,456 1,139 San Juan
St. Kitts-Nevis H 10,400 139 281 Basseterre
Saint Lucia H 5,200 239 656 Castries
St. Vincent and the Grenadines H 4,990 151 757 Kingstown
Trinidad and Tobago H 7,690 1,981 656 Port-of-Spain

  Govt. View of Birth Rated GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$) Area of Countries (square miles) Population Per Square Mile Capital City
SOUTH AMERICA   6,730 6,898,579 51  
Argentina S 11,940 1,073,514 35 Buenos Aires
Bolivia S 2,300 424,162 20 La Paz
Brazil S 6,840 3,300,154 52 Brasilia
Chile S 8,410 292,135 53 Santiago
Colombia S 5,580 439,734 98 Bogota
Ecuador H 2,820 109,483 118 Quito
French Guiana — — 34,749 6 Cayenne
Guyana S 3,330 83,000 8 Georgetown
Paraguay H 4,380 157,046 36 Asunción
Peru H 4,480 496,224 53 Lima
Suriname S 3,780 63,039 7 Paramaribo
Uruguay L 8,750 68,498 49 Montevideo
Venezuela S 5,420 352,143 70 Caracas

  Govt. View of Birth Rated GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$) Area of Countries (square miles) Population Per Square Mile Capital City
ASIA   $3,930 12,262,691 303  
ASIA (Excl. China)   4,130 8,566,591 286  
WESTERN ASIA   4,810 1,823,873 106  
Armenia L 2,360 11,506 330 Yerevan
Azerbaijan S 2,450 33,436 243 Baku
Bahrain S — 266 2,688 Manama
Cyprus L 19,080 3,571 247 Nicosia
Georgia L 2,540 26,911 203 Tbilisi
Iraq S — 169,236 139 Baghdad
Israel L 18,070 8,131 791 Jerusalem
Jordan H 3,880 34,444 150 Amman
Kuwait S — 6,880 297 Kuwait
Lebanon S — 4,015 1,061 Beirut
Oman H — 82,031 29 Muscat
Palestinian Territory — — 2,417 1,365 —
Qatar S — 4,247 139 Doha
Saudi Arabia S 11,050 829,996 25 Riyadh
Syria S 3,450 71,498 231 Damascus
Turkey H 6,440 299,158 221 Ankara
United Arab Emirates S — 32,278 103 Abu Dhabi
Yemen H 730 203,849 88 Sana’a

  Govt. View of Birth Rated GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$) Area of Countries (square miles) Population Per Square Mile Capital City
SOUTH CENTRAL ASIA   2,250 4,157,320 362  
Afghanistan H — 251,772 106 Kabul
Bangladesh H 1,530 55,598 2,401 Dhaka
Bhutan H 1,260 18,147 50 Thimphu
India H 2,230 1,269,340 814 New Delhi
Iran H 5,520 630,575 108 Tehran
Kazakhstan L 4,790 1,049,151 14 Astana
Kyrgyzstan S 2,420 76,641 65 Bishkek
Maldives H — 116 2,495 Malé
Nepal H 1,280 56,826 413 Kathmandu
Pakistan H 1,860 307,375 472 Islamabad
Sri Lanka S 3,230 25,332 771 Colombo
Tajikistan H — 55,251 112 Dushanbe
Turkmenistan S 3,340 188,456 29 Ashkhabad
Uzbekistan S 2,230 172,741 145 Tashkent

  Govt. View of Birth Rated GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$) Area of Countries (square miles) Population Per Square Mile Capital City
SOUTHEAST ASIA   3,210 1,735,448 299  
Brunei S — 2,228 156 Bandar Seri Begawan
Cambodia H 1,350 69,900 187 Phnom Penh
East Timor — — 5,741 134 Dili
Indonesia H 2,660 735,355 280 Jakarta
Laos H 1,430 91,429 59 Vientiane
Malaysia H 7,640 127,317 178 Kuala Lumpur
Myanmar S — 261,228 183 Yangon
Philippines H 3,990 115,830 666 Manila
Singapore L 22,640 239 17,320 Singapore City
Thailand S 5,950 198,116 315 Bangkok
Vietnam H 1,860 128,066 623 Hanoi

  Govt. View of Birth Rated GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$) Area of Countries (square miles) Population Per Square Mile Capital City
EAST ASIA   5,750 4,546,050 331  
China S 3,550 3,696,100 344 Beijing
China, Hong Kong SARe — 22,570 413 16,743 —
China, Macao SARe — 16,940 8 56,721 Macao
Japan L 25,170 145,869 872 Tokyo
Korea, North S — 46,541 472 Pyongyang
Korea, South S 15,530 38,324 1,274 Seoul
Mongolia S 1,610 604,826 4 Ulan Bator
Taiwan — — 13,969 1,608 Taipei

  Govt. View of Birth Rated GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$) Area of Countries (square miles) Population Per Square Mile Capital City
EUROPE   14,970 8,875,867 82  
NORTHERN EUROPE   21,460 675,794 142  
Denmark S 25,600 16,637 322 Copenhagen
Estonia L 8,190 17,413 78 Tallinn
Finland S 22,600 130,560 40 Helsinki
Iceland S 27,210 39,768 7 Reykjavik
Ireland S 22,460 27,135 142 Dublin
Latvia L 6,220 24,942 95 Riga
Lithuania L 6,490 25,174 147 Vilnius
Norway S 28,140 125,050 36 Oslo
Sweden S 22,150 173,730 51 Stockholm
United Kingdom S 22,220 94,548 635 London

  Govt. View of Birth Rated GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$) Area of Countries (square miles) Population Per Square Mile Capital City
WESTERN EUROPE   23,840 427,702 429  
Austria L 24,600 32,378 251 Vienna
Belgium S 25,710 11,787 872 Brussels
France L 23,020 212,934 278 Paris
Germany L 23,510 137,830 597 Berlin
Liechtenstein S — 62 534 Vaduz
Luxembourg L 41,230 999 446 Luxembourg
Monaco S — 1 45,333 —
Netherlands S 24,410 15,768 1,018 Amsterdam
Switzerland L 28,760 15,942 453 Bern

  Govt. View of Birth Rated GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$) Area of Countries (square miles) Population Per Square Mile Capital City
EASTERN EUROPE   6,770 7,264,035 42  
Belarus L 6,880 80,154 125 Minsk
Bulgaria L 5,070 42,822 190 Sofia
Czech Republic L 12,840 30,448 337 Prague
Hungary L 11,050 35,919 278 Budapest
Moldova S 2,100 13,012 328 Chisinau
Poland L 8,390 124,807 310 Warsaw
Romania L 5,970 92,042 243 Bucharest
Russia L 6,990 6,592,819 22 Moscow
Slovakia L 10,430 18,923 286 Bratislava
Ukraine L 3,360 233,089 211 Kiev

  Govt. View of Birth Rated GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$) Area of Countries (square miles) Population Per Square Mile Capital City
SOUTHERN EUROPE   16,520 508,337 286  
Albania S 3,240 11,100 310 Tirana
Andorra S — 174 380 Andorra la Vella
Bosnia-Herzegovina L — 19,741 173 Sarajevo
Croatia L 7,260 21,830 197 Zagreb
Greece L 15,800 50,950 214 Athens
Italy L 22,000 116,320 497 Rome
Macedoniaf H 4,590 9,927 205 Skopje
Malta S — 124 3,157 Valletta
Portugal L 15,860 35,514 282 Lisbon
San Marino S — 23 1,166 San Marino
Slovenia S 16,050 7,819 256 Ljubljana
Spain L 17,850 195,363 204 Madrid
Yugoslavia S — 39,448 270 Belgrade

  Govt. View of Birth Rated GNI PPP Per Capita, 1999, (US$) Area of Countries (square miles) Population Per Square Mile Capital City
OCEANIA   17,880 3,306,741 9  
Australia S 23,850 2,988,888 6 Canberra
Federated States of Micronesia H — 270 444 Palikir
Fiji S 4,780 7,054 119 Suva
French Polynesia — 22,200 1,544 153 Papeete
Guam — — 212 744 Agana
Kiribati H — 282 337 Tarawa
Marshall Islands H — 69 1,007 Majuro
Nauru S — 9 1,412 Yaren
New Caledonia — 21,130 7,174 30 Noumea
New Zealand S 17,630 104,452 37 Wellington
Palau S — 178 107 Koror
Papua-New Guinea H 2,260 178,703 28 Port Moresby
Solomon Islands H 2,050 11,158 41 Honiara
Tonga S — 290 349 Nuku’alofa
Tuvalu H — 10 1,100 Funafuti
Vanuatu S 2,880 4,707 44 Port-Vila
Western Samoa H 4,070 1,097 155 Apia

Notes

(—) indicates data unavailable or inapplicable

z = Less than 0.5 percent

a Infant deaths per 1,000 live births. Rates shown with decimals indicate national statistics reported as completely registered, while those without are estimates from the sources cited on reverse. Rates shown in italics are based upon less than 50 annual infant deaths and, as a result, are subject to considerable yearly variability.

b Average number of children born to a woman during her lifetime

c A = complete data … D = little or no data

d H = too high; S = satisfactory; L = too low

e Special Administrative Region

f The former Yugoslav Republic

* Data prior to 1995 are shown in italics.

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