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What The CIA Knows About Us
(or at least the counties we live in)

I was recently attempting to do work in school when I stumbled across the CIA World Factbook. I thought it was quite interesting how indepth they had journied in each page reporting on all the countries I've heard about, plus about 2wice as many I haven't.

Here I bring you a gathering of facts illustrated in the CIA report.

If you'd like to check it out for yourself click here.

Canada
Area - comparative; slightly larger than the US
Age structure;0-14 years: 18.7% (male 3,059,023; female 2,910,203)
                      15-64 years: 68.4% (male 10,975,701; female 10,857,869)
                      65 years and over: 12.9% (male 1,743,654; female                                             2,355,818) (2002 est.)
Sex ratio; at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
                under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
                15-64 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
                65 years and over: 0.74 male(s)/female
                total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2002 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS;49,000 (1999 est.)
Religions; Roman Catholic 46%, Protestant 36%, other 18%
                note: based on the 1991 census
Languages; English 59.3% (official), French 23.2% (official), other 17.5%
Government type;confederation with parliamentary democracy
GDP - per capita; purchasing power parity - $27,700 (2001 est.)
Telephones - main lines in use;18.5 million (1999)
Telephones - mobile cellular; 4.207 million (1997)
Televisions; 21.5 million (1997)
Internet users; 14.44 million (2001)
Highways; total: 901,902 km
                paved: 318,371 km (including 16,571 km of expressways)
                unpaved: 583,531 km (1999)
Airports; 1,419 (2001)
Heliports; 18 (2001)
*Illicit drugs; illicit producer of cannabis for the domestic drug market; use of hydroponics technology permits growers to plant large quantities of high-quality marijuana indoors; transit point for heroin and cocaine entering the US market

United States of America
Area - comparative; about half the size of Russia; about three-tenths the size of                                Africa; about half the size of South America (or slightly                                     larger than Brazil); slightly larger than China; about two and                                a half times the size of Western Europe.
Age structure; 0-14 years: 21% (male 30,116,782; female 28,765,183)
                       15-64 years: 66.4% (male 92,391,120; female 93,986,468)
                       65 years and over: 12.6% (male 14,748,522; female 20,554,414)                        (2002 est.)
Sex ratio; at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
                under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
                15-64 years: 0.98 male(s)/female
                65 years and over: 0.72 male(s)/female
                total population: 0.96 male(s)/female (2002 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS; 850,000 (1999 est.)
Religions; Protestant 56%, Roman Catholic 28%, Jewish 2%, other 4%, none                    10% (1989)
Languages; English, Spanish (spoken by a sizable minority)
Government type; federal republic; strong democratic tradition
GDP - per capita; purchasing power parity - $36,300 (2001 est.)
Telephones - mobile cellular; 69.209 m
Telephones - main lines in use; 194 million (1997)illion (1998)
Televisions; 219 million (1997)
Internet users; 166 million (2001)
Highways; total: 6,370,031 km
                 paved: 5,733,028 km (including 74,091 km of expressways)
                 unpaved: 637,003 km (1997)
Airports; 14,695 (2001)
Heliports; 132 (2001)
*Illicit drugs; consumer of cocaine shipped from Colombia through Mexico and the Caribbean; consumer of heroin, marijuana, and increasingly methamphetamine from Mexico; consumer of high-quality Southeast Asian heroin; illicit producer of cannabis, marijuana, depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and methamphetamine; money-laundering center