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Basic
Country Data
Area
(km2) |
620 |
Population
(2000) |
4,018,000 |
Official
name of the country |
The Republic of Singapore |
Region |
East
Asia |
Type
of economy |
High income |
Gross
Domestic Product per capita (2000) |
US$22,959 |
Percentage
of population below the national poverty
line |
... |
Human
Development Index, HDI (1999) |
0.876 |
HDI
rank out of 162 countries (1999) |
26 |
Duration
of compulsory education |
... |
School
life expectancy |
... |
Illiteracy
rate (2000) |
7.7 |
| Gross
Enrolment Rate |
• Pre-primary
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... |
• Primary
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79.85 |
• Secondary
| ... |
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• Tertiary |
... |
| Net
Enrolment Rate |
• Pre-primary
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... |
• Primary
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• Secondary
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... |
• Tertiary
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... |
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)
[.] not available.
Updated version, April 2003. |
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