People Of Burma

Population	42,720,196 note: estimates for this country take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2004 est.)
Age structure	0-14 years: 27.6% (male 6,023,874; female 5,774,055) 15-64 years: 67.5% (male 14,317,308; female 14,504,500) 65 years and over: 4.9% (male 927,570; female 1,172,889) (2004 est.)
Median age	total: 25.7 years male: 25.2 years female: 26.3 years (2004 est.)
Population growth rate	0.47% (2004 est.)
Birth rate	18.64 births/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Death rate	12.16 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Net migration rate	-1.8 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Sex ratio	at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 0.99 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.79 male(s)/female total population: 0.99 male(s)/female (2004 est.)
Infant mortality rate	total: 68.78 deaths/1,000 live births female: 62.42 deaths/1,000 live births (2004 est.) male: 74.78 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth	total population: 56.01 years male: 54.22 years female: 57.9 years (2004 est.)
Total fertility rate	2.08 children born/woman (2004 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate	1.2% (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS	330,000 (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths	20,000 (2003 est.)
Nationality	noun: Burmese (singular and plural) adjective: Burmese
Ethnic groups	Burman 68%, Shan 9%, Karen 7%, Rakhine 4%, Chinese 3%, Indian 2%, Mon 2%, other 5%
Religions	Buddhist 89%, Christian 4% (Baptist 3%, Roman Catholic 1%), Muslim 4%, animist 1%, other 2%
Languages	Burmese, minority ethnic groups have their own languages
Literacy	conventional long form: Union of Burma conventional short form: Burma local short form: Myanma Naingngandaw former: Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma local long form: Pyidaungzu Myanma Naingngandaw (translated by the US Government as Union of Myanma and by the Burmese as Union of Myanmar) note: since 1989 the military authorities in Burma have promoted the name Myanmar as a conventional name for their state; this decision was not approved by any sitting legislature in Burma, and the US Government did not adopt the name, which is a derivative of the Burmese short-form name Myanma Naingngandaw

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This information was reproduced in part from the CIA World Fact book.

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