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Key facts

  • Number of countries: 35
  • Number of regions: 4
  • Land area: 37,963,100 km²
  • Population: 1,027,724,027

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Metrics

Business

Central government debt 1,267.91 % of GDP
Expense 24.90 % of GDP
GDP 33,916,500,000,000.00 current US$
Inflation 543.53 annual %
Self Employed Pct 35.42
Tax Revenue Pct Gdp 16.33
Unemployment Pct 7.42
Vulnerable Employment Pct 31.59


Environment

Agricultural land 11,230,100.00 km²
Alternative and nuclear energy 7.12 % of total energy use
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) 6,275,480.00 kt
Electricity production from coal sources 6.15 % of total
Electricity production from natural gas sources 19.17 % of total
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources 36.53 % of total
Electricity production from nuclear sources 1.81 % of total
Electricity production from oil sources 24.85 % of total
Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric 10.02 % of total
Net energy imports -13.28 % of energy use
Fertility rate 1.90 births per woman
Forest area 15,857,100 km²
Fossil fuel energy consumption 49.28 % of total
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 -21,070.50 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Median age 26.84 years
Methane emissions 1,977,190.00 kt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions 704,557.00 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Population Female 520,475,151
Population Male 507,248,875
Renewable Energy Consumption Pct 24.68
Rural Land 38,116,100.00
Rural Population 184,345,725
Urban Land 330,743.00
Urban Population 843,378,302
Urban Population Under 5M 5.81


Health

Birth Rate 15.16 per 1,000 people
Death rate 8.57 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita 1,118.87 current US$
Health expenditure 7.78 % of GDP
Incidence of HIV 0.24 per 1,000 uninfected population
Hospital Beds 2.16 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth 73 years
Suicide mortality rate 7.99


Other

Access to electricity 96.96 % of population
Internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence 5,942,708
Individuals using the Internet 75.59 % of population
Net migration 1,054,045
Press freedom 80.93


Politics

Armed forces personnel 4,207,000
Democracy score 166.79
Military expenditure 1.27 % of GDP
Women Parliament Seats Pct 29.12


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Datasets

Source

World Bank

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