Head of state: Queen Elizabeth II Prime minister: Portia Simpson-Miller
President: Danilo Turk
Population
2,889,187
1,996,617
Life Expectancy
73.430 years
77.480 years
Capital City
Kingston
Ljubljana
Largest city
Kingston (population: 937,700)
Ljubljana (population: 255,115)
Human Development Index
0.771
0.923
GDP per capita
$9,100 US
$29,000 US
Literacy Rate
87.9%
99.7%
Corruption Perception Index
3.1
6.7
Percentage of Women in Parliament
13.6%
10%
Wealthiest Citizens
Unemployment Rate
12.700%
11.800%
Death Penalty
Legal
Abolished
Political System
constitutional parliamentary democracy
parliamentary republic
Independence date
6 August 1962 (from UK)
25 June 1991 (from Yugoslavia)
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)
Catholic 57.8%, Muslim 2.4%, Orthodox 2.3%, other Christian 0.9%, unaffiliated 3.5%, other or unspecified 23%, none 10.1% (2002 census)
Languages
English, English patois
Slovenian 91.1%, Serbo-Croatian 4.5%, other or unspecified 4.4% (2002 census)
manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food
External Debt
$14,700,000,000 $
$61,230,000,000 US
Exchange Rate
Jamaican dollars (JMD) per US dollar - 72.236 (2008 est.), 69.034 (2007), 65.768 (2006), 62.51 (2005), 61.197 (2004)
euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.67 (2008 est.), 0.7345 (2007), tolars per US dollar - 190.85 (2006), 192.71 (2005), 192.38 (2004) note: Slovenia adopted the euro as its currency on 1 January 2007
Military Budget as percentage of GDP
0.600%
1.700%
Beijing Olympics Medal Count
11
5
Location
Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba
Central Europe, eastern Alps bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Austria and Croatia
Area
10,991 km sq
20,273 km sq
Coastline
1,022 km
47 km
Climate
tropical; hot, humid; temperate interior
Mediterranean climate on the coast, continental climate with mild to hot summers and cold winters in the plateaus and valleys to the east
