emale 65 years and over:
0.78 male(s)/female total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2002 est.)

Infant mortality rate: 51.55 deaths/1,000 live births (2002 est.)

Life expectancy at birth: 65.67 years (2002 est.) male: Total fertility
rate: 2.7 children born/woman (2002 est.)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: NA%

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

HIV/AIDS - deaths: NA

Religions: Christians 32.88% (of which Roman Catholics 17.39%,
Protestants 5.62%, Orthodox 3.54%, Anglicans 1.31%), Muslims 19.54%,
Hindus 13.34%, Buddhists 5.92%, Sikhs 0.38%, Jews 0.24%, other religions
12.6%, non-religious 12.63%, atheists 2.47% (2000 est.)

Languages: Chinese, Mandarin 14.37%, Hindi 6.02%, English 5.61%, Spanish
5.59%, Bengali 3.4%, Portuguese 2.63%, Russian 2.75%, Japanese 2.06%,
German, Standard 1.64%, Korean 1.28%, French 1.27% (2000 est.) note:
percents are for "first language" speakers only

Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total
population: 77% male: 83% female: 71% (1995 est.)

Government World

Administrative divisions: 268 nations, dependent areas, other, and
miscellaneous entries

Legal system: all members of the UN plus Switzerland are parties to
the statute that established the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
or World Court

Economy World

Economy - overview: Growth in global output (gross world product, GWP)
fell from 4.8% in 2000 to 2.2% in 2001. The causes: slowdowns in the US
economy (21% of GWP) and in the 15 EU economies (20% of GWP); continued
stagnation in the Japanese economy (7.3% of GWP); and spillover effects
in the less developed regions of the world. China, the second largest
economy in the world (12% of GWP), proved an exception, continuing its
rapid annual growth, officially announced as 7.3% but estimated by many
observers as perhaps two percentage points lower. Russia (2.6% of GWP),
with 5.2% growth, continued to make uneven progress, its GDP per capita
still only one-third that of the leading industrial nations. The other 14
successor nations of the USSR and the other old Warsaw Pact nations again
experienced widely divergent growth rates; the three Baltic nations were
strong performers, in the 5% range of growth. The developing nations also
varied in their growth results, with many countries facing population
increases that eat up gains in output. Externally, the nation-state, as
a bedrock economic-political institution, is steadily