The 2002 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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      Internet country code: .bi

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 1 (2000)

      Internet users: 2,000 (2000)

      Transportation Burundi

      Railways: 0 km

      Highways: total: 14,480 km paved: 1,028 km unpaved: 13,452 km (1996)

      Waterways: Lake Tanganyika

      Ports and harbors: Bujumbura

      Airports: 7 (2001)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 1 over 3,047 m: 1 (2001)

      Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 6 914 to 1,523 m: 3 under 914 m: 3 (2001)

      Military Burundi

      Military branches: Army (including naval and air units), Gendarmerie

      Military manpower - military age: 16 years of age (2002 est.)

      Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 1,439,032 (2002 est.)

      Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 752,584 (2002 est.)

      Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 79,360 (2002 est.)

      Military expenditures - dollar figure: $36.9 million (FY01)

      Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 5.3% (FY01)

      Transnational Issues Burundi

      Disputes - international: Tutsi, Hutu, and other conflicting ethnic groups, political rebels, and various government forces continue fighting in Great Lakes region, transcending the boundaries of Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda

      This page was last updated on 1 January 2002

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      Canada

      Introduction

      Canada

      Background: A land of vast distances and rich natural resources, Canada became a self-governing dominion in 1867 while retaining ties to the British crown. Economically and technologically the nation has developed in parallel with the US, its neighbor to the south across an unfortified border. Its paramount political problem continues to be the relationship of the province of Quebec, with its French-speaking residents and unique culture, to the remainder of the country.

      Geography Canada

      Location: Northern North America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean on the east, North Pacific Ocean on the west, and the Arctic Ocean on the north, north of the conterminous US

      Geographic coordinates: 60 00 N, 95 00 W

      Map references: North America

      Area: total: 9,976,140 sq km land: 9,220,970 sq km water: 755,170 sq km

      Area - comparative: slightly larger than the US

      Land boundaries: total: 8,893 km border countries: US 8,893 km (includes 2,477 km with Alaska)

      Coastline: 243,791 km

      Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 NM territorial sea: 12 NM continental shelf: 200 NM or to the edge of the continental margin exclusive economic zone: 200 NM

      Climate: varies from temperate in south to subarctic and arctic in north

      Terrain: mostly plains with mountains in west and lowlands in southeast

      Elevation extremes: lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point:

       Mount Logan 5,959 m

      Natural resources: iron ore, nickel, zinc, copper, gold, lead, molybdenum, potash, silver, fish, timber, wildlife, coal, petroleum, natural gas, hydropower

      Land use: arable land: 5% permanent crops: 0% other: 95% (1998 est.)

      Irrigated land: 7,200 sq km (1998 est.)

      Natural hazards: continuous permafrost in north is a serious obstacle to development; cyclonic storms form east of the Rocky Mountains, a result of the mixing of air masses from the Arctic, Pacific, and North American interior, and produce most of the country's rain and snow east of the mountains

      Environment - current issues: air pollution and resulting acid rain severely affecting lakes and damaging forests; metal smelting, coal-burning utilities, and vehicle emissions impacting on agricultural and forest productivity; ocean waters becoming contaminated due to agricultural, industrial, mining, and forestry activities

      Environment - international agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Air

       Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants,

       Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Antarctic-Marine

       Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity,

       Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental

       Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone

       Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber

       94, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: Protocol, Climate Change-Kyoto

       Protocol, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation

      Geography - note: second-largest country in world (after Russia); strategic location between Russia and US via north polar route; approximately 85% of the population is concentrated within 300 km of the US/Canada border

      People Canada

      Population: 31,902,268 (July 2002 est.)

      Age structure: 0-14 years: 18.7% (male 3,059,023; female 2,910,203) 15-64 years: 68.4% (male 10,975,701; female 10,857,869) 65 years and over: 12.9% (male 1,743,654; female 2,355,818) (2002 est.)

      Population growth rate: 0.96% (2002 est.)

      Birth rate: 11.09 births/1,000 population (2002 est.)

      Death rate: 7.54 deaths/1,000 population (2002 est.)

      Net migration rate: 6.07 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2002 est.)

      Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.01 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.74 male(s)/female total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2002 est.)

      Infant mortality rate: 4.95 deaths/1,000 live births (2002 est.)

      Life expectancy at birth: 83.25 years (2002 est.) male: Total fertility rate: 1.6 children born/woman (2002 est.)

      HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.3% (1999 est.)

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