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Concise descriptions of the major religions mentioned in the Factbookhave been added to the Notes and Definitions. France 's redesignationof some of its overseas possessions caused the five former Indian Oceanisland possessions making up Iles Eparses to be incorporated into theFrench Southern and Antarctic Lands, while two new Caribbean entities,St. Barthelemy and St. Martin, were created.
Revision of some individual country maps, first introduced in the 2001edition, is continued in this edition. The revised maps includeelevation extremes and a partial geographic grid. Several regional mapshave also been updated to reflect boundary changes and place namespelling changes.
Abbreviations: This information is included in Appendix A:Abbreviations, which includes all abbreviations and acronyms used inthe Factbook, with their expansions.
Acronyms: An acronym is an abbreviation coined from the initial letterof each
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Syria
wheat, barley, cotton, lentils, chickpeas, olives, sugar
beets; beef, mutton, eggs, poultry, milk
Taiwan
rice, corn, vegetables, fruit, tea; pigs, poultry, beef,
milk; fish
Tajikistan
cotton, grain, fruits, grapes, vegetables; cattle, sheep,
goats
Tanzania
coffee, sisal, tea, cotton, pyrethrum (insecticide made
from chrysanthemums), cashew nuts, tobacco, cloves, corn, wheat,
cassava (tapioca), bananas, fruits, vegetables; cattle, sheep, goats
Thailand
rice, cassava (tapioca), rubber, corn, sugarcane, coconuts,
soybeans
Timor-Leste
coffee, rice, corn, cassava, sweet potatoes, soybeans,
cabbage, mangoes, bananas, vanilla
Togo
coffee, cocoa, cotton, yams, cassava (tapioca), corn, beans,
rice, millet, sorghum; livestock; fish
Tokelau
coconuts, copra, breadfruit, papayas, bananas; pigs,
poultry, goats; fish
Tonga
squash, coconuts, copra, bananas, vanilla beans, cocoa,
coffee, ginger, black pepper; fish
Trinidad and Tobago
cocoa, rice, citrus, coffee, vegetables; poultry
Tunisia
olives, olive oil, grain, tomatoes, citrus fruit, sugar
beets, dates, almonds; beef, dairy products
Turkey
tobacco, cotton, grain, olives, sugar beets, pulse, citrus;
livestock
Turkmenistan
cotton, grain; livestock
Turks and Caicos Islands corn, beans, cassava (tapioca), citrus fruits; fish
Tuvalu
coconuts; fish
Uganda
coffee, tea, cotton, tobacco, cassava (tapioca), potatoes,
corn, millet, pulses, cut flowers; beef, goat meat, milk, poultry
Ukraine
grain, sugar beets, sunflower seeds, vegetables; beef, milk
United Arab Emirates
dates, vegetables, watermelons; poultry, eggs,
dairy products; fish
United Kingdom
cereals, oilseed, potatoes, vegetables; cattle,
sheep, poultry; fish
United States
wheat, corn, other grains, fruits, vegetables, cotton;
beef, pork, poultry, dairy products; fish; forest products
Uruguay
rice, wheat, soybeans, barley; livestock, beef; fish;
forestry
Uzbekistan
cotton, vegetables, fruits, grain; livestock
Vanuatu
copra, coconuts, cocoa, coffee, taro, yams, fruits,
vegetables; beef; fish
Venezuela
corn, sorghum, sugarcane, rice, bananas, vegetables,
coffee; beef, pork, milk, eggs; fish
Vietnam
paddy rice, coffee, rubber, cotton, tea, pepper, soybeans,
cashews, sugar cane, peanuts, bananas; poultry; fish, seafood
Virgin Islands
fruit, vegetables, sorghum; Senepol cattle
Wallis and Futuna
breadfruit, yams, taro, bananas; pigs, goats; fish
West Bank
olives, citrus, vegetables; beef, dairy products
Western Sahara
fruits and vegetables (grown in the few oases);
camels, sheep, goats (kept by nomads); fish
Yemen
grain, fruits, vegetables, pulses, qat, coffee, cotton; dairy
products, livestock (sheep, goats, cattle, camels), poultry; fish
Zambia
corn, sorghum, rice, peanuts, sunflower seed, vegetables,
flowers, tobacco, cotton, sugarcane, cassava (tapioca), coffee;
cattle, goats, pigs, poultry, milk, eggs, hides
Zimbabwe
corn, cotton, tobacco, wheat, coffee, sugarcane, peanuts;
sheep, goats, pigs
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@2053 Airports
Afghanistan
46 (2007)
Albania
11 (2007)
Algeria
150 (2007)
American Samoa
3 (2007)
Angola
232 (2007)
Anguilla
3 (2007)
Antarctica
27 (2008)
Antigua and Barbuda
3 (2007)
Argentina
1,272 (2007)
Armenia
12 (2007)
Aruba
1 (2007)
Australia
461 (2007)
Austria
55 (2007)
Azerbaijan
35 (2007)
Bahamas, The
62 (2007)
Bahrain
3 (2007)
Bangladesh
16 (2007)
Barbados
1 (2007)
Belarus
67 (2007)
Belgium
43 (2007)
Belize
44 (2007)
Benin
5 (2007)
Bermuda
1 (2007)
Bhutan
2 (2007)
Bolivia
1,061 (2007)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
28 (2007)
Botswana
85 (2007)
Brazil
4,263 (2007)
British Indian Ocean Territory
1 (2007)
British Virgin Islands
3 (2007)
Brunei
2 (2007)
Bulgaria
214 (2007)
Burkina Faso
33 (2007)
Burma
86 (2007)
Burundi
8 (2007)
Cambodia
17 (2007)
Cameroon
45 (2007)
Canada
1,343 (2007)
Cape Verde
8 (2007)
Cayman Islands
3 (2007)
Central African Republic
51 (2007)
Chad
55 (2007)
Chile
358 (2007)
China
467 (2007)
Christmas Island
1 (2007)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
1 (2007)
Colombia
934 (2007)
Comoros
4 (2007)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
237 (2007)
Congo, Republic of the
31 (2007)
Cook Islands
9 (2007)
Costa Rica
151 (2007)
Cote d'Ivoire
34 (2007)
Croatia
68 (2007)
Cuba
165 (2007)
Cyprus
16 (2007)
Czech Republic
122 (2007)
Denmark
91 (2007)
Djibouti
13 (2007)
Dominica
2 (2007)
Dominican Republic
34 (2007)
Ecuador
406 (2007)
Egypt
88 (2007)
El Salvador
65 (2007)
Equatorial Guinea
5 (2007)
Eritrea
18 (2007)
Estonia
19 (2007)
Ethiopia
84 (2007)
European Union
3,393 (2006)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
6 (2007)
Faroe Islands
1 (2007)
Fiji
28 (2007)
Finland
148 (2007)
France
476 (2007)
French Polynesia
54 (2007)
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
4 (one each on Europa Island,
Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island, and Tromelin Island in the
Iles Eparses district) (2006)
Gabon
53 (2007)
Gambia, The
1 (2007)
Gaza Strip
2 (2007)
Georgia
23 (2007)
Germany
550 (2007)
Ghana
12 (2007)
Gibraltar
1 (2007)
Greece
81 (2007)
Greenland
14 (2007)
Grenada
3 (2007)
Guam
5 (2007)
Guatemala
402 (2007)
Guernsey
2 (2007)
Guinea
16 (2007)
Guinea-Bissau
27 (2007)
Guyana
93 (2007)
Haiti
14 (2007)
Honduras
112 (2007)
Hong Kong
2 (2007)
Hungary
46 (2007)
Iceland
99 (2007)
India
346 (2007)
Indonesia
652 (2007)
Iran
331 (2007)
Iraq
110 (2007)
Ireland
34 (2007)
Isle of Man
1 (2007)
Israel
53 (2007)
Italy
132 (2007)
Jamaica
34 (2007)
Jan Mayen
1 (2007)
Japan
176 (2007)
Jersey
1 (2007)
Jordan
17 (2007)
Kazakhstan
97 (2007)
Kenya
225 (2007)
Kiribati
19 (2007)
Korea, North
77 (2007)
Korea, South
105 (2007)
Kosovo
10 (2008)
Kuwait
7 (2007)
Kyrgyzstan
30 (2007)
Laos
42 (2007)
Latvia
42 (2007)
Lebanon
7 (2007)
Lesotho
28 (2007)
Liberia
53 (2007)
Libya
141 (2007)
Lithuania
87 (2007)
Luxembourg
2 (2007)
Macau
1 (2007)
Macedonia
17 (2007)
Madagascar
104 (2007)
Malawi
39 (2007)
Malaysia
116 (2007)
Maldives
5 (2007)
Mali
29 (2007)
Malta
1 (2007)
Marshall Islands
15 (2007)
Mauritania
25 (2007)
Mauritius
5 (2007)
Mayotte
1 (2007)
Mexico
1,834 (2007)
Micronesia, Federated States of
6 (2007)
Moldova
10 (2007)
Mongolia
44 (2007)
Montenegro
5 (2007)
Montserrat
2 (2007)
Morocco
60 (2007)
Mozambique
147 (2007)
Namibia
137 (2007)
Nauru
1 (2007)
Nepal
47 (2007)
Netherlands
27 (2007)
Netherlands Antilles
5 (2007)
New Caledonia
25 (2007)
New Zealand
121 (2007)
Nicaragua
163 (2007)
Niger
28 (2007)
Nigeria
70 (2007)
Niue
1 (2007)
Norfolk Island
1 (2007)
Northern Mariana Islands
5 (2007)
Norway
98 (2007)
Oman
137 (2007)
Pakistan
146 (2007)
Palau
3 (2007)
Panama
116 (2007)
Papua New Guinea
578 (2007)
Paracel Islands
1 (2007)
Paraguay
838 (2007)
Peru
237 (2007)
Philippines
255 (2007)
Poland
123 (2007)
Portugal
66 (2007)
Puerto Rico
29 (2007)
Qatar
5 (2007)
Romania
61 (2007)
Russia
1,260 (2007)
Rwanda
9 (2007)
Saint Barthelemy
1
Saint Helena
1 (2007)
Saint Kitts and Nevis
2 (2007)
Saint Lucia
2 (2007)
Saint Martin
1
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
2 (2007)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
6 (2007)
Samoa
4 (2007)
Sao Tome and Principe
2 (2007)
Saudi Arabia
213 (2007)
Senegal
20 (2007)
Serbia
39 (2007)
Seychelles
15 (2007)
Sierra Leone
10 (2007)
Singapore
8 (2007)
Slovakia
35 (2007)
Slovenia
14 (2007)
Solomon Islands
35 (2007)
Somalia
67 (2007)
South Africa
728 (2007)
Spain
154 (2007)
Spratly Islands
3 (2007)
Sri Lanka
18 (2007)
Sudan
101 (2007)
Suriname
50 (2007)
Svalbard
4 (2007)
Swaziland
18 (2007)
Sweden
250 (2007)
Switzerland
65 (2007)
Syria
90 (2007)
Taiwan
41 (2007)
Tajikistan
26 (2007)
Tanzania
124 (2007)
Thailand
106 (2007)
Timor-Leste
8 (2007)
Togo
9 (2007)
Tonga
6 (2007)
Trinidad and Tobago
6 (2007)
Tunisia
30 (2007)
Turkey
117 (2007)
Turkmenistan
28 (2007)
Turks and Caicos Islands
8 (2007)
Tuvalu
1 (2007)
Uganda
32 (2007)
Ukraine
437 (2007)
United Arab Emirates
39 (2007)
United Kingdom
449 (2007)
United States
14,947 (2007)
United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges
Baker Island: one
abandoned World War II runway of 1,665 m covered with vegetation and
unusable
Howland Island: airstrip constructed in 1937 for scheduled refueling
stop on the round-the-world flight of Amelia EARHART and Fred
NOONAN; the aviators left Lae, New Guinea, for Howland Island but
were never seen again; the airstrip is no longer serviceable
Johnston Atoll: one closed and not maintained
Kingman Reef: lagoon was used as a halfway station between Hawaii
and American Samoa by Pan American Airways for flying boats in 1937
and 1938
Midway Islands: 3 - one operational (2,409 m paved); no fuel for
sale except emergencies
Palmyra Atoll: 1 - 1,846 m unpaved runway; privately owned (2008)
Uruguay
60 (2007)
Uzbekistan
54 (2007)
Vanuatu
31 (2007)
Venezuela
390 (2007)
Vietnam
44 (2007)
Virgin Islands
2 (2007)
Wake Island
1 (2007)
Wallis and Futuna
2 (2007)
West Bank
3 (2007)
Western Sahara
9 (2007)
World
total airports - 49,024
top ten by passengers: Atlanta - 84,846,639; Chicago - 77,028,134;
London - 67,530,197; Tokyo - 65,810,672; Los Angeles - 61,041,066;
Dallas/Fort Worth - 60,226,138; Paris - 56,849,567; Frankfurt -
52,810,683; Beijing - 48,654,770; Denver - 47,325,016
top ten by cargo (metric tons): Memphis - 3,692,081; Hong Kong -
3,609,780; Anchorage - 2,691,395; Seoul - 2,336,572; Tokyo -
2,280,830; Shanghai - 2,168,122; Paris - 2,130,724; Frankfurt -
2,127,646; Louisville (US) - 1,983,032; Singapore - 1,931,881 (2006)
Yemen
50 (2007)
Zambia
107 (2007)
Zimbabwe
341 (2007)
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@2054 Birth rate (births/1,000 population)
Afghanistan
45.82 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Albania
15.22 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Algeria
17.03 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
American Samoa
23.66 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Andorra
10.59 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Angola
44.09 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Anguilla
13.11 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Antigua and Barbuda
16.78 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Argentina
18.11 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Armenia
12.53 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Aruba
12.81 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Australia
12.55 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Austria
8.66 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Azerbaijan
17.52 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Bahamas, The
17.06 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Bahrain
17.26 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Bangladesh
28.86 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Barbados
12.48 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Belarus
9.62 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Belgium
10.22 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Belize
27.84 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Benin
39.8 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Bermuda
11.15 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Bhutan
20.56 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Bolivia
22.31 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
8.82 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Botswana
22.96 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Brazil
18.72 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
British Virgin Islands
14.72 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Brunei
18.39 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Bulgaria
9.58 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Burkina Faso
44.68 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Burma
17.23 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Burundi
41.72 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Cambodia
25.68 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Cameroon
34.59 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Canada
10.29 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Cape Verde
23.95 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Cayman Islands
12.43 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Central African Republic
33.13 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Chad
41.61 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Chile
14.82 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
China
13.71 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Christmas Island
NA (2008 est.)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
NA (2008 est.)
Colombia
19.86 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Comoros
35.78 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 43 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Congo, Republic of the
41.76 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Cook Islands
16.71 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Costa Rica
17.71 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Cote d'Ivoire
32.73 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Croatia
9.64 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Cuba
11.27 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Cyprus
12.56 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Czech Republic
8.89 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Denmark
10.71 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Djibouti
38.61 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Dominica
15.73 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Dominican Republic
22.65 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Ecuador
21.54 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Egypt
22.12 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
El Salvador
25.72 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Equatorial Guinea
37.04 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Eritrea
34.94 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Estonia
10.28 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Ethiopia
43.97 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
European Union
10.25 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
NA (2008 est.)
Faroe Islands
13.25 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Fiji
22.15 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Finland
10.39 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
France
12.73 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
French Polynesia
16.16 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Gabon
35.75 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Gambia, The
38.36 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Gaza Strip
37.75 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Georgia
10.62 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Germany
8.18 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Ghana
29.22 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Gibraltar
10.71 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Greece
9.54 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Greenland
14.87 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Grenada
21.61 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Guam
18.37 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Guatemala
28.55 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Guernsey
8.57 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Guinea
37.84 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Guinea-Bissau
36.4 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Guyana
17.85 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Haiti
35.69 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Honduras
26.93 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Hong Kong
7.37 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Hungary
9.59 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Iceland
13.5 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
India
22.22 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Indonesia
19.24 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Iran
16.89 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Iraq
30.77 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Ireland
14.33 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Isle of Man
10.86 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Israel
20.02 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Italy
8.36 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Jamaica
20.04 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Japan
7.87 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Jersey
8.84 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Jordan
20.13 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Kazakhstan
16.44 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Kenya
37.89 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Kiribati
30.31 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Korea, North
14.61 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Korea, South
9.09 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Kuwait
21.9 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Kyrgyzstan
23.31 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Laos
34.46 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Latvia
9.62 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Lebanon
17.61 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Lesotho
24.41 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Liberia
42.92 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Libya
25.62 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Liechtenstein
9.86 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Lithuania
9 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Luxembourg
11.77 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Macau
8.69 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Macedonia
12 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Madagascar
38.38 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Malawi
41.79 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Malaysia
22.44 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Maldives
14.84 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Mali
49.38 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Malta
10.33 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Marshall Islands
31.52 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Mauritania
40.14 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Mauritius
14.64 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Mayotte
39.79 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Mexico
20.04 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Micronesia, Federated States of 23.66 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Moldova
11.01 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Monaco
9.09 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Mongolia
21.09 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Montenegro
11.17 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Montserrat
12.01 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Morocco
21.31 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Mozambique
38.21 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Namibia
23.19 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Nauru
24.26 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Nepal
29.92 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Netherlands
10.53 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Netherlands Antilles
14.37 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
New Caledonia
17.39 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
New Zealand
14.09 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Nicaragua
23.7 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Niger
49.62 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Nigeria
37.23 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Niue
NA (2008 est.)
Norfolk Island
NA (2008 est.)
Northern Mariana Islands
19.04 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Norway
11.12 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Oman
35.26 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Pakistan
28.35 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Palau
17.4
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