Swaziland 
Facts
Population: 1,133,066
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 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 40.3% (male 230,238/female 226,184)
15-64 years: 56.1% (male 304,899/female 331,036)
65 years and over: 3.6% (male 15,870/female 24,839) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: -0.337% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 26.98 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 30.35 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.018 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.921 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.639 male(s)/female
total population: 0.947 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 70.66 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 74 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 67.21 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 32.23 years
male: 31.84 years
female: 32.62 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 3.43 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 38.8% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 220,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 17,000 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Swazi(s)
adjective: Swazi.
Ethnic groups: African 97%, European 3%.
Religions: Zionist 40% (a blend of Christianity and indigenous ancestral worship), Roman Catholic 20%, Muslim 10%, other (includes Anglican, Bahai, Methodist, Mormon, Jewish) 30%.
Languages: English (official, government business conducted in English), siSwati (official).
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 81.6%
male: 82.6%
female: 80.8% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $5.936 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 1.2% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $5,200 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 8.6%
industry: 49.7%
services: 41.7% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 300,000 (2006).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: NA%
industry: NA%
services: NA%.
Population below poverty line: 69% (2006).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1%
highest 10%: 50.2% (1995).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.4% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 40% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $984.6 million
expenditures: $1.019 billion; including capital expenditures of $147 million (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: sugarcane, cotton, corn, tobacco, rice, citrus, pineapples, sorghum, peanuts; cattle, goats, sheep.
Industries: coal, wood pulp, sugar, soft drink concentrates, textile and apparel.
Industrial production growth rate: 3.7% (FY95/96).
Electricity - production: 156.3 million kWh (2005).
Electricity - consumption: 1.123 billion kWh (2005).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 697 million kWh; note - electricity supplied by South Africa (2004).
Exports: $2.201 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: soft drink concentrates, sugar, wood pulp, cotton yarn, refrigerators, citrus and canned fruit.
Exports - partners: South Africa 59.7%, EU 8.8%, US 8.8%, Mozambique 6.2% (2004).
Imports: $2.274 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: motor vehicles, machinery, transport equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products, chemicals.
Imports - partners: South Africa 95.6%, EU 0.9%, Japan 0.9%, Singapore 0.3% (2004).
Debt - external: $417 million (2006).
Economic aid - recipient: $104 million (2001).
Currency (code): lilangeni (SZL).
Exchange rates: emalangeni per US dollar - 6.85 (2006), 6.3593 (2005), 6.4597 (2004), 7.5648 (2003), 10.5407 (2002).
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
Swaziland Observer
(Independent), Mbabane
(Independent), Mbabane
http://www.times.co.sz/
Swaziland in the News
Swazi opposition leader Mario Masuku faces sedition charges. Sarah Coleman reviews the Swazi and South African presses.
World Press Review - King Mswati III of Swaziland has imposed what amounts to a state of emergency. WPR correspondent Busani Bafana.
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