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Facts & Figures
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Geography & People
- Capital: Beirut
- Area: 10,400 sq km (about 0.7 times the size of Connecticut)
- Population: 3,925,502 (July 2007 est.)
- Population growth rate: 1.198%
- Life expectancy at birth: 73.2 years
- Literacy: 87.4%
- Languages: Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian
Government
- Government type: Republic
- President: Emile Lahoud
- Prime Minister: Fuad Siniora
- Ambassador to the United States Designate: Antoine Chedid
- Ambassador from the United States: Jeffrey D. Feltman
Economy
- GDP: $22.02 billion (PPP, 2006 est.)
- GDP per capita: $5,700 (PPP, 2006 est.)
- GDP real growth rate: -6.4% (2006 est.)
- GDP composition by sector: agriculture - 7%; industry - 21%; services - 72% (2005)
- Population below poverty line: 28% (1999)
- Exports: $1.881 billion (2005 est.)
- Debt - external: $31.1 billion (2006 est.)
- Economic aid: $2.2 billion received (2003) from the $4.2 billion in soft loans pledged at the November 2002 Paris II Aid Conference
- Currency: Lebanese Pound (LBP)
Statistics come from the CIA Factbook https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/le.html
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