Saint Kitts and Nevis and Burma Comparison - Examine Similarities and Differences

Country
	Burma
Leader
Prime minister: Denzil Douglas	President: Thein Sein
Population
51,134	55,167,330
Life Expectancy
75.070 years	65.600 years
Capital City
	Rangoon (Yangon)
Largest city
Basseterre (population: 12,920)	Rangoon (population: 4,477,640)
Human Development Index
0.83	NA
GDP per capita
	$1,400 US
Literacy Rate
97.8%	89.9%
Corruption Perception Index

Percentage of Women in Parliament
6.7%	NA
Wealthiest Citizens

Unemployment Rate
	5.400%
Death Penalty
Legal	NA

Political System
parliamentary democracy	military junta
Independence date
	4 January 1948 (from UK)
Religions
Anglican, other Protestant, Roman Catholic	Buddhist 89%, Christian 4% (Baptist 3%, Roman Catholic 1%), Muslim 4%, animist 1%, other 2%
Languages
English	Burmese, minority ethnic groups have their own languages
Exports
	natural gas, wood products, pulses, beans, fish, rice, clothing, jade and gems
External Debt
	$5,448,000,000 US
Exchange Rate
	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
	4.800%
Beijing Olympics Medal Count

Location
Caribbean, islands in the Caribbean Sea, about one-third of the way from Puerto Rico to Trinidad and Tobago	Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Bangladesh and Thailand
Area
261 km sq	676,578 km sq
Coastline
135 km	1,930 km
Climate
tropical, tempered by constant sea breezes; little seasonal temperature variation; rainy season (May to November)	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)

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Saint Kitts and Nevis vs Burma