Head of state: Queen Elizabeth II Prime minister: Portia Simpson-Miller
President : Thein Sein
Population
2,889,187
54,584,650
Life Expectancy
73.430 years
65.240 years
Capital City
Kingston
Rangoon (Yangon)
Largest city
Kingston (population: 937,700)
Rangoon (population: 4,477,640)
Human Development Index
0.771
NA
GDP per capita
$9,100 US
$1,300 US
Literacy Rate
87.9%
89.9%
Corruption Perception Index
3.1
NA
Percentage of Women in Parliament
13.6%
NA
Wealthiest Citizens
Unemployment Rate
12.700%
5.500%
Death Penalty
Legal
NA
Political System
constitutional parliamentary democracy
military junta
Independence date
6 August 1962 (from UK)
4 January 1948 (from UK)
Religions
Protestant 62.5% (Seventh-Day Adventist 10.8%, Pentecostal 9.5%, Other Church of God 8.3%, Baptist 7.2%, New Testament Church of God 6.3%, Church of God in Jamaica 4.8%, Church of God of Prophecy 4.3%, Anglican 3.6%, other Christian 7.7%), Roman Catholic 2.6%, other or unspecified 14.2%, none 20.9%, (2001 census)
Buddhist 89%, Christian 4% (Baptist 3%, Roman Catholic 1%), Muslim 4%, animist 1%, other 2%
Languages
English, English patois
Burmese, minority ethnic groups have their own languages
Jamaican dollars (JMD) per US dollar - 72.236 (2008 est.), 69.034 (2007), 65.768 (2006), 62.51 (2005), 61.197 (2004)
kyats (MMK) per US dollar - 1,205 (2008 est.), 1,296 (2007), 1,280 (2006), 5.761 (2005), 5.7459 (2004) note: unofficial exchange rates ranged in 2004 from 815 kyat/US dollar to nearly 970 kyat/US dollar, and by yearend 2005, the unofficial exchange rate was 1,075 kyat/US dollar; data shown for 2003-05 are official exchange rates
Military Budget as percentage of GDP
0.600%
2.100%
Beijing Olympics Medal Count
11
0
Location
Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba
Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Bangladesh and Thailand
Area
10,991 km sq
676,578 km sq
Coastline
1,022 km
1,930 km
Climate
tropical; hot, humid; temperate interior
tropical monsoon; cloudy, rainy, hot, humid summers (southwest monsoon, June to September); less cloudy, scant rainfall, mild temperatures, lower humidity during winter (northeast monsoon, December to April)
