Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome (AIDS)
Children orphaned as a result of all causes [thousands, aged 0–17, 2004
data from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 2005
estimate]
180,000
School attendance ratio of orphaned children (2000–2006)
1.0
DEMOGRAPHICS
Population data, 2007
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Population (thousands, 2006, under 18)
1,146,936
Population (thousands, 2006, under 5)
297,079
Population annual growth rate (1986–1996)
3.3 per cent
Population annual growth rate (1996–2006)
1.2 per cent
Crude death rate (1986)
11.7 per cent
Crude death rate (1996)
12.8 per cent
Crude death rate (2006)
12.8 per cent
Crude birth rate (1986)
38
Crude birth rate (1996)
30
Crude birth rate (2006)
25.3
Life expectancy (1990)
59
Life expectancy (1995)
57
Life expectancy (2000)
49
Life expectancy (2006)
42.6
Total fertility rate (2006)
3.5
Population urbanised (2006)
23.8 per cent
Average annual growth rate of urban population (1986–1996)
3 per cent
Average annual growth rate of urban population (1996–2006)
7 per cent