Lebanon 
Facts
Population:
3,627,774 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
27.57% (male 509,975; female 490,031)
15-64 years:
65.72% (male 1,136,995; female 1,247,184)
65 years and over:
6.71% (male 110,964; female 132,625) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.38% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
20.16 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
6.39 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.04 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
0.91 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.84 male(s)/female
total population:
0.94 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
28.35 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
71.52 years
male:
69.13 years
female:
74.03 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
2.05 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.09% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
NA
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
NA
Nationality:
noun:
Lebanese (singular and plural)
adjective:
Lebanese
Ethnic groups:
Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1%
Religions:
Muslim 70% (including Shi'a, Sunni, Druze, Isma'ilite, Alawite or Nusayri), Christian 30% (including Orthodox Christian, Catholic, Protestant), Jewish NEGL%
Languages:
Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
86.4%
male:
90.8%
female:
82.2% (1997 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $18.2 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
1% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $5,000 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
12%
industry:
27%
services:
61% (1999 est.)
Population below poverty line:
28% (1999 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
NA%
highest 10%:
NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
0% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
1.3 million (1999 est.)
note:
in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers (1997 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
services NA%, industry NA%, agriculture NA%
Unemployment rate:
18% (1997 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$3.31 billion
expenditures:
$5.55 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries:
banking; food processing; jewelry; cement; textiles; mineral and chemical products; wood and furniture products; oil refining; metal fabricating
Industrial production growth rate:
NA%
Electricity - production:
7.748 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
91.29%
hydro:
8.71%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
7.86 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
654 million kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
citrus, grapes, tomatoes, apples, vegetables, potatoes, olives, tobacco; sheep, goats
Exports:
$700 million (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
foodstuffs and tobacco, textiles, chemicals, precious stones, metal and metal products, electrical equipment and products, jewelry, paper and paper products
Exports - partners:
UAE 9%, Saudi Arabia 8%, Syria 6%, US 6%, Kuwait 6%, France 5%, Belgium 5%, Jordan 4% (1999)
Imports:
$6.2 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, machinery and transport equipment, consumer goods, chemicals, textiles, metals, fuels, agricultural foods
Imports - partners:
Italy 13%, France 11%, Germany 8%, US 7%, Switzerland 6%, Japan, UK, Syria (1999)
Debt - external:
$9.6 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$3.5 billion (pledges 1997-2001)
Currency:
Lebanese pound (LBP)
Currency code:
LBP
Exchange rates:
Lebanese pounds per US dollar - 1,507.5 (January 2001), 1,507.5 (2000), 1,507.8 (1999), 1,516.1 (1998), 1,539.5 (1997), 1,571.4 (1996)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
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Ad-Dabbour
(Weekly magazine), Beirut
(Independent newsmagazine), Beirut
http://www.alnabad.com/
Al-Anwar
(Independent), Beirut
Al-Diyar
(Independent), Beirut
Al-Dunya
(Independent), Beirut
Al-Hadaf
(Palestinian weekly), Beirut
Al-Hayat
(Independent, Saudi-owned), Beirut
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Fahmy Howeidy of Cairo's Al-Ahram warns that Washington means what it says about reshaping the Middle East.
Sarkis Naoum, of Beirut's independent An-Nahar, interviews Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, the spiritual leader of Hezbollah, about his assessment of the likelihood of a U.S.-assisted uprising from within Iraq.
Lebanon is on the verge of a financial collapse, warns correspondent Abeer El-Gazzawi.
As Israel continues its military offensive in the West Bank, fears of a wider regional conflagration have increased following a spate of military operations by anti-Israel militants in southern Lebanon. Joel Campagna reviews the Arab press.
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