Republic of the Marshall Islands

Capital: Majuro

Total Area: 70.00 sq mi,181.30 sq km,(about the size of Washington, DC)

Population: 70,822 (July 2001 est.)

Estimated Population in 2050: 347893

Languages: English (universally spoken and is the official language), two major Marshallese dialects from the Malayo-Polynesian family, Japanese

Literacy: 93.0% total, 100.0% male, 88% female (1980 est.)

Religions: Christian (mostly Protestant)

Life Expectancy: 64.04 male, 67.73 female (2001 est.)

Government Type: constitutional government in free association with the US; the Compact of Free Association entered into force 21 October 1986

Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents

GDP (per capita): $1,670 (1998 est.)

Industry: copra, fish, tourism, craft items from shell, wood, and pearls, offshore banking (embryonic)

Agriculture: coconuts, tomatoes, melons, cacao, taro, breadfruit, fruits; pigs, chickens

Arable Land: 0%

Natural Resources: phosphate deposits, marine products, deep seabed minerals

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