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World Data

Population:
6,830,586,985 (July 2010 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 27% (male 944,987,919/female 884,268,378)
15-64 years: 65.3% (male 2,234,860,865/female 2,187,838,153)
65 years and over: 7.6% (male 227,164,176/female 289,048,221) (2010 est.)

Median age:
total: 28.4 years
male: 27.7 years
female: 29 years (2009 est.)

Population growth rate:
1.133% (2009 est.)

Birth rate:
19.86 births/1,000 population (2009 est.)

Death rate:
8.37 deaths/1,000 population (2009 est.)

Urbanization:
urban population: 50.5% of total population
rate of urbanization: 1.85% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
ten largest urban agglomerations:

Tokyo (Japan) - 36,669,000; Delhi (India) - 22,157,000; Sao Paulo (Brazil) - 20,262,000; Mumbai (India) - 20,041,000; Mexico City (Mexico) - 19,460,000; New York-Newark (US) - 19,425,000; Shanghai (China) - 16,575,000; Kolkata (India) - 15,552,000; Dhaka (Bangladesh) - 14,648,000; Karachi (Pakistan) - 13,125,000 (2009) Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.07 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.79 male(s)/female
total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2009 est.)

Infant mortality rate:
total: 44.13 deaths/1,000 live births
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male: 46.19 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 41.92 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 66.12 years
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male: 64.29 years
female: 68.07 years (2009 est.)

Total fertility rate:
2.56 children born/woman (2009 est.)
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HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.8% (2007 est.)

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
33 million (2007 est.)

HIV/AIDS - deaths:
2 million (2007 est.)

Religions:
Christians 33.32% (of which Roman Catholics 16.99%, Protestants 5.78%, Orthodox 3.53%, Anglicans 1.25%), Muslims 21.01%, Hindus 13.26%, Buddhists 5.84%, Sikhs 0.35%, Jews 0.23%, Baha'is 0.12%, other religions 11.78%, non-religious 11.77%, atheists 2.32% (2007 est.)

Languages:
Mandarin Chinese 12.65%, Spanish 4.93%, English 4.91%, Arabic 3.31%, Hindi 2.73%, Bengali 2.71%, Portuguese 2.67%, Russian 2.16%, Japanese 1.83%, Standard German 1.35%, Javanese 1.27% (2008 est.)
note: percents are for "first language" speakers only

Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 82%
male: 87%
female: 77%
note: over two-thirds of the world's 785 million illiterate adults are found in only eight countries (Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan); of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, the Arab states, South and West Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, where around one-third of the men and half of all women are illiterate (2005 est.)

Economy - overview:

"Despite these challenges, the world economy also shows great promise. Technology has made possible further advances in all fields, from agriculture, to medicine, alternative energy, metallurgy, and transportation. Improved global communications have greatly reduced the costs of international trade, helping the world gain from the international division of labor, raise living standards, and reduce income disparities among nations. Much of the resilience of the world economy in 2009 resulted from government leaders around the world working in concert to stem the financial onslaught, knowing well the lessons of past economic failures."
Read complete CIA Economic Overview

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$70.29 trillion (2009 est.)
$70.84 trillion (2008 est.)
$68.81 trillion (2007 est.)
note: data are in 2009 US dollars

GDP (official exchange rate):
GWP (gross world product): $58.07 trillion (2009 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
-0.8% (2009 est.)
2.9% (2008 est.)
5% (2007 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$10,500 (2009 est.)
$10,700 (2008 est.)
$10,500 (2007 est.)
note: data are in 2009 US dollars

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 6%
industry: 30.6%
services: 63.4% (2009 est.)

Labor force:
3.179 billion (2009 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 37.5%
industry: 22.1%
services: 40.4% (2007 est.)

Unemployment rate:
8.7% (2009 est.)
7.2% (2008 est.)
note: 30% (2007 est.) combined unemployment and underemployment in many non-industrialized countries; developed countries typically 4%-12% unemployment

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2.5%
highest 10%: 29.5% (2003 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
22.7% of GDP (2009 est.)
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23.6% of GDP (2008 est.)

Public debt:
56% of GDP (2009 est.)
48.9% of GDP (2008 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
developed countries 0% to 4% typically; developing countries 5% to 20% typically; national inflation rates vary widely in individual cases; inflation rates have declined for most countries for the last several years, held in check by increasing international competition from several low wage countries and lower oil prices

Stock of money:
$12.35 trillion (31 December 2007)
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Stock of quasi money: $27.31 trillion (31 December 2007)
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Stock of domestic credit:
$69.9 trillion (31 December 2007)

Market value of publicly traded shares:
$NA (31 December 2009 est.)
$34.95 trillion (31 December 2008)
$64.56 trillion (31 December 2007 est.)

Industries:
dominated by the onrush of technology, especially in computers, robotics, telecommunications, and medicines and medical equipment; most of these advances take place in OECD nations; only a small portion of non-OECD countries have succeeded in rapidly adjusting to these technological forces; the accelerated development of new industrial (and agricultural) technology is complicating already grim environmental problems

Industrial production growth rate:
-2.7% (2009 est.)

Electricity - production:
19.25 trillion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - consumption:
17.93 trillion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - exports:
615.4 billion kWh (2008 est.)

Electricity - imports:
613.9 billion kWh (2008 est.)

Oil - production:
87.51 million bbl/day (2008 est.)

Oil - consumption:
84.34 million bbl/day (2008 est.)

Oil - exports:
61.96 million bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - imports:
66.5 million bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - proved reserves:
1.365 trillion bbl (1 January 2009 est.)

Natural gas - production:
3.127 trillion cu m (2008 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
3.073 trillion cu m (2008 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
949.9 billion cu m (2008 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
947.2 billion cu m (2008 est.

Natural gas - proved reserves:
182.1 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)

Exports:
$12.4 trillion (2009 est.)

$15.96 trillion (2008 est.)

Exports - commodities:
the whole range of industrial and agricultural goods and services
top ten - share of world trade: electrical machinery, including computers 14.8%; mineral fuels, including oil, coal, gas, and refined products 14.4%; nuclear reactors, boilers, and parts 14.2%; cars, trucks, and buses 8.9%; scientific and precision instruments 3.5%; plastics 3.4%; iron and steel 2.7%; organic chemicals 2.6%; pharmaceutical products 2.6%; diamonds, pearls, and precious stones 1.9%

Exports - partners:
US 12.7%, Germany 7.1%, China 6.2%, France 4.4%, Japan 4.2%, UK 4.1% (2008)

Imports:
$12.29 trillion (2009 est.)
$15.9 trillion (2008 est.)

Imports - commodities:
the whole range of industrial and agricultural goods and services top ten - share of world trade: see listing for

Imports - partners:
China 10.3%, Germany 8.6%, US 8.1%, Japan 5% (2008)

Debt - external:

$56.9 trillion (31 December 2009 est.)
$60.83 trillion (31 December 2008 est.)
note: this figure is the sum total of all countries' external debt, both public and private

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
$16.42 trillion (31 December 2008)
$15.32 trillion (31 December 2007 est.)

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
$17.03 trillion (31 December 2008 est.)
$16.03 trillion (31 December 2007 est.)

Additional information on all of these statistics are available on the CIA website.

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