aths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 71.01 years

male: 69.76 years

female: 72.32 years (2001 est.)

Total fertility rate: 6.42 children born/woman (2001 est.)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: NA%

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: NA

HIV/AIDS - deaths: NA

Nationality: noun: NA

adjective: NA

Ethnic groups: Palestinian Arab and other 99.4%, Jewish 0.6%

Religions: Muslim (predominantly Sunni) 98.7%, Christian 0.7%,
Jewish 0.6%

Languages: Arabic, Hebrew (spoken by Israeli settlers and many
Palestinians), English (widely understood)

Literacy: definition: NA

total population: NA%

male: NA%

female: NA%

Gaza Strip Government

Country name: conventional long form: none

conventional short form: Gaza Strip

local long form: none

local short form: Qita Ghazzah

Gaza Strip Economy

Economy - overview: Economic output in the Gaza Strip - which comes
under the responsibility of the Palestinian Authority since the
Cairo Agreement of May 1994 - declined perhaps one-third between
1992 and 1996. The downturn was largely the result of Israeli
closure policies - the imposition of generalized border closures in
response to security incidents in Israel - which disrupted
previously established labor and commodity market relationships
between Israel and the WBGS (West Bank and Gaza Strip). The most
serious negative social effect of this downturn was the emergence of
high unemployment; unemployment in the WBGS during the 1980s was
generally under 5%; by 1995 it had risen to over 20%. Since 1997
Israel's use of comprehensive closures has decreased and, in 1998,
Israel implemented new policies to reduce the impact of closures and
other security procedures on the movement of Palestinian goods and
labor. These changes fueled an almost three-year long economic
recovery in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; real GDP grew by 5% in
1998 and 6% in 1999. Recovery was upended in the last quarter of
2000 with the outbreak of Palestinian violence, which triggered
tight Israeli closures of Palestinian self-rule areas and a severe
disruption of trade and labor movements.

GDP: purchasing power parity - $1.11 billion (2000 est.)

GDP - real growth rate: -7.5% (2000 est.)

GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $1,000 (2000 est.)

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 9%

industry: 28%

services: 63% (1999 est., includes W