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Oman

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Oman is a country. The capital city is Muscat, located in the Western Asia region of Asia. It has a land area of 309,500 km², a population of 5,049,269 people and uses the currency Omani rial. The Sultan and Prime Minister is Haitham bin Tariq.

Key facts

currency: Omani rial
capital city: Muscat
region: Western Asia
continent: Asia
land area: 309,500 km²
population: 5,049,269 people
political leader: Haitham bin Tariq (Sultan and Prime Minister)

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GDP: 108,810,923,276.98 current US$
inflation: 0.95 annual %
self-employed workers: 3.43 % of total employment
unemployment: 3.18 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 2.41 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 47,000 people
democracy score: 3.04
democracy type: Authoritarian
individuals using the Internet: 95.30 % of population
military expenditure: 5.40 % of GDP
net migration: 156,285 people
press freedom: 1.80
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 0.00 %
birth rate: 17.71 per 1,000 people
death rate: 3.28 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 852.62 current US$
health expenditure: 4.37 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.03 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 1.16 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 74
suicide mortality rate: 4.90 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 14,662.20 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 0.00 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 93.09 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 97.37 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 2.63 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 0.00 % of total
net energy imports: -206.19 % of energy use
fertility rate: 2.57 births per woman
forest area: 24 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 99.96 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 127.44 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 25.30
methane emissions: 32.17 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 1.18 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 1,914,778 people
male population: 3,134,491 people
renewable energy consumption: 0.10 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 309,151.55 km²
rural population: 585,715 people
urban land area: 1,500.49 km²
urban population: 4,463,554 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 5.06 % of total population

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Oman is one of the countries in Asia, countries in Western Asia and 194 countries in our database.

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