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Age at first marriage for men
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31.2 years |
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[3rd of 19]
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Age at first marriage for women
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29.1 years |
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[3rd of 19]
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Age structure > 0-14 years
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18.4 |
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[183rd of 226]
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Average size of households
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2.5 |
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[8th of 17]
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Birth rate
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12.73 births/1,000 population |
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[161st of 226]
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Chinese population
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300,000 |
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[11th of 127]
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Death rate
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8.48 deaths/1,000 population |
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[96th of 226]
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Ethnic groups
Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities |
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Marriage rate
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5.1 |
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[25th of 27]
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Nobel prize laureates
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49 |
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[4th of 44]
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Population
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61,037,510 |
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[21st of 242]
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Population growth rate
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0.574% |
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[152nd of 235]
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Population in 2015
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62,339 |
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[21st of 225]
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Projected population growth
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9.99% |
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[103rd of 141]
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Sex ratio > 15-64 years
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1 |
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[120th of 223]
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Sex ratio > Under 15 years
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1.05 male(s)/female |
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[73rd of 224]
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Teenage birth rate
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9.3 |
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[19th of 28]
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Total fertility rate
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1.98 children born/woman |
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[133rd of 225]
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Total Population
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60,876,136 |
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[21st of 227]
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Urbanization
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76 |
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[47th of 204]
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SOURCES: 1980 figures and 1999 figures for EU countries are from European Social Statistics Demography 2001. Australian figures are from ABS, Year Book Australia 2003 - Population. Marriages and Divorces and the latest figure is for 2001. Figures for other European and North American countries come from UN Economic Commission for Europe, Trends in Europe and North America 2001 (UN, NY, 2001). New Zealand figures from Maureen Baker, Families, Labour and Love (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001). Japanese figures from Japan Almanac 1998 (Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo). Figures for other countries from UN Statistics Division, The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics.
Spanish Statistical Institute; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division, Trends in Europe and North America 2001 (UN Economic Commission for Europe, NY, 2001), p. 74; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; University Libraries, Ohio University; United Nations, Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, April 2001; The Nobel Foundation; World Development Indicators database and CIA World Factbook; Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision and World Urbanization Prospects: http://esa.un.org/unpp; Population Reference Bureau, 2001 World Population Data Sheet, Washington, DC: PRB, 2001. via ciesin.org; UNICEF; U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, International Programs Center
Spanish Statistical Institute; Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat, World Urbanization Prospects: The 2001 Revision, Data Tables and Highlights (ESA/P/WP.173, 20 March 2002)
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France, French Republic, Republique Francaise
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