Basic Country Data

     Area (km2)

5,770

     Population (2000)

328,000

     Official name of the country

Brunei Darussalam

     Region

East Asia

     Type of economy

High income

     Gross Domestic Product per capita (2000)

US$ 15,345

     Percentage of population below the national poverty line

...

     Human Development Index, HDI (1999)

0.857

     HDI rank out of 162 countries (1999)

32

     Duration of compulsory education

12 years

     School life expectancy (1992)

12.5 years

     Illiteracy rate (2000)

8.5

     Gross Enrolment Rate

                  Pre-primary

51.76 (1998)

                  Primary

107.37 (1999)

                  Secondary

110.34 (1999)

                 Tertiary

13.89 (1999)

     Net Enrolment Rate

                  Pre-primary

...

                  Primary

...

                  Secondary

...

                 Tertiary

...
Sources: United Nations Population Division and Statistics Division (www.un.org); United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (www.unesco.org); UNESCO Institute for Statistics ( www.uis.unesco.org); United Nations Development Programme (www.undp.org); The World Bank (www.worldbank.org); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (www.fao.org)

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Revised version, February 2003.

 

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