Sao Tome and Principe and Burma Comparison - Examine Similarities and Differences

Country
	Burma
Leader
President: Manuel Pinto da Costa	President : Thein Sein
Population
183,176	54,584,650
Life Expectancy
63.490 years	65.240 years
Capital City
	Rangoon (Yangon)
Largest city
Sao Tome (population: 53,300)	Rangoon (population: 4,477,640)
Human Development Index
0.643	NA
GDP per capita
	$1,300 US
Literacy Rate
84.9%	89.9%
Corruption Perception Index
2.7	NA
Percentage of Women in Parliament
1.8%	NA
Wealthiest Citizens

Unemployment Rate
	5.500%
Death Penalty
Abolished	NA

Political System
republic	military junta
Independence date
	4 January 1948 (from UK)
Religions
Catholic 70.3%, Evangelical 3.4%, New Apostolic 2%, Adventist 1.8%, other 3.1%, none 19.4% (2001 census)	Buddhist 89%, Christian 4% (Baptist 3%, Roman Catholic 1%), Muslim 4%, animist 1%, other 2%
Languages
Portuguese (official)	Burmese, minority ethnic groups have their own languages
Exports
	natural gas, wood products, pulses, beans, fish, rice, clothing, jade and gems
External Debt
	$5,811,000,000 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
	2.100%
Beijing Olympics Medal Count

Location
Western Africa, islands in the Gulf of Guinea, straddling the Equator, west of Gabon	Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Bangladesh and Thailand
Area
964 km sq	676,578 km sq
Coastline
209 km	1,930 km
Climate
tropical; hot, humid; one rainy season (October to May)	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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Sao Tome and Principe vs Burma