This Week in Palestine - Statistics
Issue no. 28 - August  2000

Statistics*

Country Name: Palestinien Territory

Basic data (1988 unless other wise stated)
 
Child Population (millions, under 18 yrs.)
1,545,781
USMR (per 1.000 live births) (1995)
33.2
IMR (per 1.000 live births) (1995)
27.3
Under weight (%m mod, & severe, 1996)
4.4
Maternal mortality rate (per 100.000 live births, 1995)
70 to 80 (estimated)
Literacy (% male / female, 1998)
92.2 / 79.2
Basic stage enrolment / attendance (% net male /female, 1988/99)*
90.58 / 91.31
Primary school children reaching grade 5 (% 1998/98)
96.6
Access to safe water (% 1995)
84.1
Routine EPI vaccines financed by government (%)
100
GNP per capital - Palestine (US$, 1997)
1,693.2
GNP per capital - Palestine (US$, 1998)
1,889.6
* Basic stag includes grades 1st - 10th
Source: Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Macroeconomics  
GDP 1998 (miilion US$)
4484.5
GNP per capita 1988
1889.6
Economic Activity
1998
Industrial
14,521
Insurance**
196
Construction (Formal Sector)
408
Transport, storage & communications
651
Services activities (profit and non-profit)
12,456
Wholesale, retail trade & repairs
38,974
 
Area Statistics
Number of Vehicles
140212
Area of Land Per inhabitant (m2) (1997)
2072.9
* Including establishments
** Financial data excludes data on that part of Jerusalem annexed by Israel after 1967.

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