Land area (thousand sq. km)

181.035

Number of provinces / municipalities

24

Number of districts

183

Number of communes

1,609

Number of villages

13,406

Population

11,437,656

Population per sq. km

63

Rural population (percent)

84.3

Annual population growth rate (percent)

2.49

Number of males per 100 females

93.0

Percentage of female headed households

25.7

Dependency ratio

86.1

Population below national poverty line (percent)

36

Life expectancy (years)

54

Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births)

89.4

Maternal mortality rate (per 100,000)

47.3

Adult literacy rate, male/female (percent)

79.5/57.0

Households with access to safe drinking water, rural/urban (percent)

23.7/60.3

Households with electricity as main source of light, rural/urban (percent)

8.6/53.6

Households using firewood as main cooking fuel (percent)

90.0

Households with toilet within premises, rural/urban (percent)

8.6/49.0

Gross domestic product, 1999 (US dollars, billion)

3.0

GDP per head, 1999 (US dollars)

257

Official exchange rate, 1999 (Riel per US$)

3,800

Sectoral shares of GDP, 1999 (percent)

- agriculture

41.9

- industry

20.4

- services

37.7

Sectoral shares of employment

- agriculture

77.5

- industry

4.3

-services

18.2