|
Country
|
Maldives | 
Greece |
|
Leader
|
President: Mohamed Nasheed
|
President: Karolos Papoulias
|
|
Population
|
394,451
| 10,767,827
|
|
Life Expectancy
|
74.690 years
| 80.050 years
|
|
Capital City
|
Male
| Athens
|
|
Largest city
|
| Male (population: 84,972) | Athens (population: 729,137) |
|
Human Development Index
|
0.749
| 0.947
|
| GDP per capita |
$8,800 US
| $26,600 US
|
|
Literacy Rate
|
96.3%
| 96%
|
|
Corruption Perception Index
|
2.8
| 4.7
|
|
Percentage of Women in Parliament
|
12%
| 14.7%
|
| Wealthiest Citizens |
NA
| Spiro Latsis & family ($3.8bn US)
|
| Unemployment Rate |
14.500%
| 17.300%
|
|
Death Penalty
|
Abolished in practice
| Abolished
|
| |
|
Political System
|
republic
| parliamentary republic
|
|
Independence date
|
26 July 1965 (from UK)
| 1829 (from the Ottoman Empire)
|
| Religions |
Sunni Muslim
| Greek Orthodox 98%, Muslim 1.3%, other 0.7%
|
| Languages |
Maldivian Dhivehi (dialect of Sinhala, script derived from Arabic), English spoken by most government officials
| Greek 99% (official), other 1% (includes English and French)
|
| Exports |
fish
| food and beverages, manufactured goods, petroleum products, chemicals, textiles
|
| External Debt |
$943,000,000 $
| $583,300,000,000 US
|
| Exchange Rate |
rufiyaa (MVR) per US dollar - NA (2007), 12.8 (2006), 12.8 (2005), 12.8 (2004), 12.8 (2003)
| euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.6734 (2008 est.), 0.7345 (2007), 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004)
|
| Military Budget as percentage of GDP |
5.500%
| 4.300%
|
| Beijing Olympics Medal Count |
0
| 4
|
| Location |
Southern Asia, group of atolls in the Indian Ocean, south-southwest of India
| Southern Europe, bordering the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea, between Albania and Turkey
|
| Area |
298 km sq
| 131,957 km sq
|
| Coastline |
644 km
| 13,676 km
|
| Climate |
tropical; hot, humid; dry, northeast monsoon (November to March); rainy, southwest monsoon (June to August)
| temperate; mild, wet winters; hot, dry summers
|
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