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- real growth rate: NA%

      GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $NA

      GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: NA% industry: NA% services: NA%

      Population below poverty line: NA%

      Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA% highest 10%: NA%

      Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%

      Labor force: NA

      Labor force - by occupation: the Cocos Islands Cooperative Society Ltd. employs construction workers, stevedores, and lighterage workers; tourism employs others

      Unemployment rate: 60% (2000 est.)

      Budget: revenues: $NA expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA

      Industries: copra products and tourism

      Industrial production growth rate: NA%

      Electricity - production: NA kWh

      Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: NA% hydro: NA% other:

       NA% nuclear: NA%

      Electricity - consumption: NA kWh

      Agriculture - products: vegetables, bananas, pawpaws, coconuts

      Exports: $NA

      Exports - commodities: copra

      Exports - partners: Australia

      Imports: $NA

      Imports - commodities: foodstuffs

      Imports - partners: Australia

      Debt - external: $NA

      Economic aid - recipient: $NA

      Currency: Australian dollar (AUD)

      Currency code: AUD

      Exchange rates: Australian dollars per US dollar - 1.9354 (January 2002), 1.9320 (2001), 1.7173 (2000), 1.5497 (1999), 1.5888 (1998), 1.3439 (1997)

      Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June

      Communications Cocos (Keeling) Islands

      Telephones - main lines in use: 287 (1992)

      Telephones - mobile cellular: NA

      Telephone system: general assessment: connected within Australia's telecommunication system domestic: NA international: telephone, telex, and facsimile communications with Australia and elsewhere via satellite; 1 satellite earth station of NA type (2002)

      Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0 (2000)

      Radios: 300 (1992)

      Television broadcast stations: NA

      Televisions: NA

      Internet country code: .cc

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 2 (2000)

      Internet users: NA

      Transportation Cocos (Keeling) Islands

      Railways: 0 km

      Highways: total: 15 km (2001) paved: NA km unpaved: NA km

      Waterways: none

      Ports and harbors: none; lagoon anchorage only

      Merchant marine: none (2002 est.)

      Airports: 1 (2001)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2001)

      Military Cocos (Keeling) Islands

      Military - note: defense is the responsibility of Australia; the territory does have a five-person police force

      Transnational Issues Cocos (Keeling) Islands

      Disputes - international: none

      This page was last updated on 1 January 2002

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      Cameroon

      Introduction

      Cameroon

      Background: The former French Cameroon and part of British Cameroon merged in 1961 to form the present country. Cameroon has generally enjoyed stability, which has permitted the development of agriculture, roads, and railways, as well as a petroleum industry. Despite movement toward democratic reform, political power remains firmly in the hands of an ethnic oligarchy.

      Geography Cameroon

      Location: Western Africa, bordering the Bight of Biafra, between

       Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria

      Geographic coordinates: 6 00 N, 12 00 E

      Map references: Africa

      Area: total: 475,440 sq km water: 6,000 sq km land: 469,440 sq km

      Area - comparative: slightly larger than California

      Land boundaries: total: 4,591 km border countries: Central African

       Republic 797 km, Chad 1,094 km, Republic of the Congo 523 km, Equatorial

       Guinea 189 km, Gabon 298 km, Nigeria 1,690 km

      Coastline: 402 km

      Maritime claims: territorial sea: 50 NM

      Climate: varies with terrain, from tropical along coast to semiarid and hot in north

      Terrain: diverse, with coastal plain in southwest, dissected plateau in center, mountains in west, plains in north

      Elevation extremes: lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point:

       Fako (on Cameroon Mountain) 4,095 m

      Natural resources: petroleum, bauxite, iron ore, timber, hydropower

      Land use: arable land: 13% permanent crops: 3% other: 84% (1998 est.)

      Irrigated land: 330 sq km (1998 est.)

      Natural hazards: volcanic activity with periodic releases of poisonous gases from Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun volcanoes

      Environment - current issues: water-borne diseases are prevalent; deforestation; overgrazing; desertification; poaching; overfishing

      Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94 signed, but not ratified: Nuclear Test Ban

      Geography - note: sometimes referred to as the hinge of Africa; throughout the country there are areas of thermal springs and indications of current or prior volcanic activity; Mount Cameroon, the highest mountain in Sub-Saharan west Africa, is an active volcano

      People Cameroon

      Population: 16,184,748 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2002 est.)

      Age structure: 0-14 years: 42.1% (male 3,443,505; female 3,367,571) 15-64 years: 54.5% (male 4,431,524; female 4,392,155) 65 years and over: 3.4% (male 253,242; female 296,751) (2002 est.)

      Population growth rate: 2.36% (2002 est.)

      Birth rate: 35.66 births/1,000 population (2002 est.)

      Death rate: 12.08 deaths/1,000 population (2002 est.)

      Net migration rate: NA migrant(s)/1,000 population (2002 est.)

      Sex ratio: at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.02 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.01 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.85 male(s)/female total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2002 est.)

      Infant mortality rate: 68.79 deaths/1,000 live births (2002 est.)

      Life