Statistics for the Kingdom of Cambodia

Population:  11,239,675 (1999 est.)
Population Growth Rate:   2.83%  (1995)
Area:   181,040 sq. km.

Per capita Income:   $180US per year

Gross Domestic Product:  US $12 billion,  Rank in world141^st

Currency:   Riel,  US $ 1= 3940 Riel

Growth rate:   Flat, Unemployment Rate: Statistic unavailable but considered high

The State

Official Name:   Kingdom of Cambodia
King:   Norodom Sihanouk

Prime Minister:   Hun Sen

Capital:   Phnom Penh, (largest city) population 1,000,000.

Government:   Constitutional Monarchy

Administrative Divisions:   22 Provinces

Society

People:   90% are Khemers who inhabit an area that extends beyond

the present boundaries of Cambodia. There are Vietnamese (5%),

Chinese (1%), and other minorities (4%). Cambodia is regarded as

an agricultural country with 85% of the people involved in agricultural

production.                                                                           

Religion:   Buddhism is the official state religion, 95% of population,

2.5% Muslim, 1% Christian,

1.5% Animist & other

Language: Khemer (official and predominant), French and English

(French declining and English increasing).

Education:   65% illiteracy, average public school teacher paid

US $16/month has less than 6^th grade education.

Health

Number of visits to physician per year per capita: .32 times (this meansthat the average Cambodian sees a doctor once every three years)

Under five mortality: 177 per 1000
Life expectancy:   49.46 years

Calorie consumption:   90% of M.D.R.

Safe Water:   Available to 36% of population

H.I.V. infection rate:  100,000 new cases in 1999.  Currently 220,000

infected people in Cambodia.

Orphans produced as a result of H.I.V. infection:   43,000 in 2000 est.

Injuries to land Mines:   One in 243

Environment

Cambodia is bordered by Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and the Gulf of

Thailand. The total area is 181,035 sq. km. The climate in monsoonal

 with rains from April through October. Average annual temperatures

 vary from 21 degrees C (70F) in December/January to 35 degrees C

 (95F) in April/May.

 Cambodia’s Geography is varied but primarily consists of flat flood

 plain well suited for rice production, which is the staple diet of the

 Cambodian people. There are several mountain ranges that rise abruptly

 from the plain and the extreme Northeast is considered mountainous as well as the Southwest quadrant.

 The primary feature of the central basin is the Tonle Sap (Great Lake). It is the largest natural reservoir in the world, reversing flow during the dry season to feed the Mekong River which runs diagonally from Laos in the

North to Vietnam in the Southeast.

Natural resources are:  Lumber, greatly reduced through illegal logging

and defoliation during the Vietnam war, Mineral reserves: phosphates,

iron ore and limestone have not yet been exploited. There are gem stones

in the Northwest and oil exploration is underway off the southern coast.

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