East Timor 
Facts
Population: 1,084,971
note: other estimates range as low as 800,000 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 35.7% (male 196,825/female 190,454)
15-64 years: 61.1% (male 337,816/female 325,094)
65 years and over: 3.2% (male 16,823/female 17,959) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 2.059% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 26.77 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 6.19 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.033 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.039 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.937 male(s)/female
total population: 1.034 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 44.46 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 50.47 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 38.14 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 66.6 years
male: 64.28 years
female: 69.04 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 3.45 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: NA.
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: NA.
HIV/AIDS - deaths: NA.
Nationality: noun: Timorese
adjective: Timorese.
Ethnic groups: Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority.
Religions: Roman Catholic 98%, Muslim 1%, Protestant 1% (2005).
Languages: Tetum (official), Portuguese (official), Indonesian, English
note: there are about 16 indigenous languages; Tetum, Galole, Mambae, and Kemak are spoken by significant numbers of people.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 58.6%
male: NA%
female: NA% (2002).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $370 million (2004 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 1.8% (2005 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $800 (2005 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 8.5%
industry: 23.1%
services: 68.4% (2004).
Labor force: NA.
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: NA%
industry: NA%
services: NA%.
Population below poverty line: 42% (2003 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%.
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.4% (2005).
Unemployment rate: 50% estimated; note - unemployment in urban areas reached 20%; data do not include underemployed (2001 est.).
Budget: revenues: $107.7 million
expenditures: $73 million; including capital expenditures of $NA (2004 est.).
Agriculture - products: coffee, rice, corn, cassava, sweet potatoes, soybeans, cabbage, mangoes, bananas, vanilla.
Industries: printing, soap manufacturing, handicrafts, woven cloth.
Industrial production growth rate: 8.5%.
Electricity - production: NA kWh.
Electricity - consumption: NA kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).
Exports: $10 million; note - excludes oil (2005 est.).
Exports - commodities: coffee, sandalwood, marble; note - potential for oil and vanilla exports.
Exports - partners: Indonesia 100% (2005).
Imports: $202 million (2004 est.).
Imports - commodities: food, gasoline, kerosene, machinery.
Economic aid - recipient: $153 million (2004 est.).
Currency (code): US dollar (USD).
Exchange rates: the US dollar is used.
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
East Timor in the News
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The situation remains tense in East Timor's capital, Dili, in the wake of an operation to capture renegade East Timorese army officer Maj. Alfredo Reinado.
Associate editor Rachel S. Taylor interviews East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao
When Indonesian soldiers killed East Timorese protesters in Dili’s Santa Cruz cemetery in 1991, Kirsty Sword, then a 25-year-old from Melbourne, Australia, was in the middle of the massacre. She had gone to Indonesia “wide-eyed and enchanted with the beauty of Java and Bali,” as she told Michael Maher of Sydney’s The Bulletin. But what she saw in Dili led her to support East Timor’s struggle to secede from Indonesia. Sword became an underground agent for the independence movement.
A decade ago the Berlin Wall unexpectedly tumbled down....Indonesia, the world’s fourth-largest nation, could disintegrate just as quickly,” said the independent Waikato Times of Hamilton, New Zealand, on Nov. 11.
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