Lebanon 
Facts
Population: 3,925,502 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 26.2% (male 525,199/female 504,240)
15-64 years: 66.7% (male 1,255,624/female 1,361,265)
65 years and over: 7.1% (male 125,904/female 153,270) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 1.198% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 18.08 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 6.1 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: 1.042 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.922 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.821 male(s)/female
total population: 0.944 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 23.39 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 25.94 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 20.71 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 73.15 years
male: 70.67 years
female: 75.77 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.88 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.1% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 2,800 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 200 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Lebanese (singular and plural)
adjective: Lebanese.
Ethnic groups: Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1%
note: many Christian Lebanese do not identify themselves as Arab but rather as descendents of the ancient Canaanites and prefer to be called Phoenicians.
Religions: Muslim 59.7% (Shi'a, Sunni, Druze, Isma'ilite, Alawite or Nusayri), Christian 39% (Maronite Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Melkite Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Syrian Catholic, Armenian Catholic, Syrian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Chaldean, Assyrian, Copt, Protestant), other 1.3%
note: 17 religious sects recognized.
Languages: Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 87.4%
male: 93.1%
female: 82.2% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $22.02 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: -6.4% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $5,700 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 7%
industry: 21%
services: 72% (2005).
Labor force: 1.5 million
note: in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers (2005 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: NA%
industry: NA%
services: NA%.
Population below poverty line: 28% (1999 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%.
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.8% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 20% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $4.444 billion
expenditures: $7.429 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: citrus, grapes, tomatoes, apples, vegetables, potatoes, olives, tobacco; sheep, goats.
Industries: banking, tourism, food processing, jewelry, cement, textiles, mineral and chemical products, wood and furniture products, oil refining, metal fabricating.
Industrial production growth rate: NA%.
Electricity - production: 9.762 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 9.529 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 450 million kWh (2004).
Exports: $1.881 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.).
Exports - commodities: authentic jewelry, inorganic chemicals, miscellaneous consumer goods, fruit, tobacco, construction minerals, electric power machinery and switchgear, textile fibers, paper.
Exports - partners: Syria 25.3%, UAE 11.4%, Switzerland 8.1%, Turkey 6%, Saudi Arabia 5.4% (2005).
Imports: $9.34 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.).
Imports - commodities: petroleum products, cars, medicinal products, clothing, meat and live animals, consumer goods, paper, textile fabrics, tobacco.
Imports - partners: Italy 11.1%, Syria 10.7%, France 9.2%, Germany 6.4%, China 5.4%, US 5.3%, UK 4.4%, Saudi Arabia 4.3% (2005).
Debt - external: $31.1 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $2.2 billion received (2003) from the $4.2 billion in soft loans pledged at the November 2002 Paris II Aid Conference.
Currency (code): Lebanese pound (LBP).
Exchange rates: Lebanese pounds per US dollar - 1,507.5 (2006), 1,507.5 (2005), 1,507.5 (2004), 1,507.5 (2003), 1,507.5 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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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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