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- Economy - Exports - partners (%): US 13.7%, Germany 7.3%, China 6.2%, France 4.6%, UK 4.5%, Japan 4.1% (2007)
- People - Languages (%): Mandarin Chinese 13.22%, Spanish 4.88%, English 4.68%, Arabic 3.12%, Hindi 2.74%, Portuguese 2.69%, Bengali 2.59%, Russian 2.2%, Japanese 1.85%, Standard German 1.44%, French 1.2% (2005 est.); note: percents are for "first language" speakers only
- Economy - GDP (official exchange rate): GWP (gross world product): .36 trillion (2008 estimate)
- Economy - Natural gas - proved reserves (cu m): 175.4 trillion cu m (1 January 2008 estimate)
- Economy - Debt - external: .61 trillion; note: this figure is the sum total of all countries' external debt, both public and private (31 December 2008 estimate)
- Communications - Radio broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA
- People - Population: 6,706,993,152 (July 2008 estimate)
- Geography - Natural resources: the rapid depletion of nonrenewable mineral resources, the depletion of forest areas and wetlands, the extinction of animal and plant species, and the deterioration in air and water quality (especially in Eastern Europe, the former USSR, and China) pose serious long-term problems that governments and peoples are only beginning to address
- Economy - Natural gas - consumption (cu m): 3.198 trillion cu m (2007 estimate)
- People - Literacy (%): definition: age 15 and over can read and write; total population: 82%; male: 87%; female: 77%; note: over two-thirds of the world's 785 million illiterate adults are found in only eight countries (India, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Egypt); of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, South and West Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Arab states, where around one-third of the men and half of all women are illiterate (2005 estimate)
Source:
CIA - The World Factbook