World Factbook Questions!

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  1. What is the population of China, and of India?
    -The population of China is 1,384,688,986. The population of India is 1,296,834,042

  1. What is the Total Fertility Rate in Japan?
    -1.42 children born/woman

  1. What is the death rate in El Salvador? 
    -5.8 deaths/1,000 population

  2. What percentage of the French identify “none” as their religion? Is this statistic verifiable, and why?
    -23-23% identify as "none". France is very secular and hasn't collected reli-gious data since 1872.

  3. What percentage of Mexicans identify themselves as Roman Catholic? 
    -82.7%

  4. What is the GDP - per capita (PPP) in the United States?
    -    $59,800

  5. What is the GDP - per capita (PPP) in Nigeria?
    -$5,900 


  6. What is the GDP - per capita (PPP) in Luxembourg?
    - $105,100
  1. What percentage of the United States’ population are Internet users?
    -76.2%
  1. What is the number of airports in Russia, and in the United States?
    -Russia: 1,218 United States: 13,513
  1. How many people in the world do not have electricity?
    -1.201 billion
  1. What is the Infant Mortality Rate in Canada, Cuba, and the United States? 
    -Canada: 4.5 deaths/1,000 live births 
    -Cuba: 4.4 deaths/1,000 live births 
    -United States: 5.7 deaths/1,000 live births 
  2. What is the literacy rate - total, for men, and for women - in Afghanistan?
    -38.2%
  3. What three countries have the highest life expectancy?
    -Monaco, Japan, and Singapore
  4. What three countries have the lowest life expectancy?
    -Lesotho, Zambia, Afghanistan
  5. What nation has the sixteenth highest Net Migration Rate?
    -Monaco
  6. What is the unemployment rate in Vietnam, South Korea, the United States, India and Kenya?
    -Vietnam: 2.2%
    -South Korea: 3.7%
    -United States: 4.4%
    -India: 8.5%
    -Kenya: 40%
  7. Military Expenditures are listed by the percentage of each nation's GDP sp-ent on defense. What percentage is spent by Germany, China, and the United States? 
    -Germany: 1.24% of GDP
    -China: 1.87% of GDP
    -United States: 3.16% of GDP

19. 
What three countries produce the most crude oil, and how much do the pr-oduce?
-United States: 10,962,000 (BBL/Day)
-Russia: 10,759,000 
-Saudi Arabia: 10,425,000



20. 
What three countries import the most crude oil, and how much do they import?
-United States: 7,969,000 (BBL/Day)
-China: 6,710,000
-India: 4,057,000

21. 
What percentage of the world’s people speak Spanish? Chinese? English?
-Spanish: 6%
-Chinese: 12.3%
-English: 5.1%

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