Swaziland

Facts

Population:  1,104,343 note:  estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:  0-14 years:  45.53% (male 250,327; female 252,479) 15-64 years:  51.88% (male 276,186; female 296,728) 65 years and over:  2.59% (male 11,687; female 16,936) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:  1.83% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:  40.12 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:  21.84 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:  0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:  at birth:  1.03 male(s)/female under 15 years:  0.99 male(s)/female 15-64 years:  0.93 male(s)/female 65 years and over:  0.69 male(s)/female total population:  0.95 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:  109.19 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:  total population:  38.62 years male:  37.86 years female:  39.4 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:  5.82 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  25.25% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  130,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  7,100 (1999 est.)
Nationality:  noun:  Swazi(s) adjective:  Swazi
Ethnic groups:  African 97%, European 3%
Religions:  Protestant 55%, Muslim 10%, Roman Catholic 5%, indigenous beliefs 30%
Languages:  English (official, government business conducted in English), siSwati (official)
Literacy:  definition:  age 15 and over can read and write total population:  76.7% male:  78% female:  75.6% (1995 est.)
GDP:  purchasing power parity - $4.4 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:  2.4% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $4,000 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:  agriculture:  10% industry:  46% services:  44% (1998 est.)
Population below poverty line:  NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:  lowest 10%:  NA% highest 10%:  NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):  6.4% (2000 est.)
Labor force:  NA
Labor force - by occupation:  private sector 70%, public sector 30%
Unemployment rate:  22% (1995 est.)
Budget:  revenues:  $400 million expenditures:  $450 million, including capital expenditures of $115 million (FY96/97)
Industries:  mining (coal and asbestos), wood pulp, sugar, soft drink concentrates
Industrial production growth rate:  3.7% (FY95/96)
Electricity - production:  375 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:  fossil fuel:  53.33% hydro:  46.67% nuclear:  0% other:  0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:  198 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:  852 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:  701 million kWh note:  supplied by South Africa (1999)
Agriculture - products:  sugarcane, cotton, corn, tobacco, rice, citrus, pineapples, sorghum, peanuts; cattle, goats, sheep
Exports:  $881 million (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:  soft drink concentrates, sugar, wood pulp, cotton yarn, refrigerators, citrus and canned fruit
Exports - partners:  South Africa 65%, EU 12%, Mozambique 11%, US 5% (1998)
Imports:  $928 million (f.o.b., 2000)
Imports - commodities:  motor vehicles, machinery, transport equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products, chemicals
Imports - partners:  South Africa 84%, EU 5%, Japan 2%, Singapore 2% (1998)
Debt - external:  $281 million (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:  $55 million (1995)
Currency:  lilangeni (SZL)
Currency code:  SZL
Exchange rates:  emalangeni per US dollar - 7.7803 (January 2001), 6.9056 (2000), 6.1087 (1999), 5.4807 (1998), 4.6032 (1997), 4.2706 (1996); note - the Swazi lilangeni is at par with the South African rand; emalangeni is the plural form of lilangeni
Fiscal year:  1 April - 31 March

Statistics: CIA World Factbook.

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