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|  berard | May 16, 2005 1:26am | I have compared the data provided by the CIA Factbook concerning Iraq in Oct 19, 2000 opposed what is currently on their site.
cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html [cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html] [cia.gov]
web.archive.org/web/20001019062141/http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/ [web.archive.org/web/20001019062141/http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/]
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I found interesting differences, so I post them here :
Literacy (definition: age 15 and over of total population can read and write) :
58% (2000)
40.4% (2005)
International organization participation:
No longer member of :
Arab League (as if since the US invaded, it's no longer an Arab country ?)
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (same thing, the US no longer wants Iraq involved in regional economic business)
Inmarsat, Intelsat (Iraq no longer needs satellite communications ? or is it rather new US contracters who took over the business ?)
New member of :
World Customs Organization (very important in a post-war situation !)
World Trade Organization as observer
GDP - composition by sector:
(1993 est:) agriculture: 6% - industry: 13% - services: 81%
(2004 est:) agriculture: 13.6% - industry: 58.6% - services: 27.8%
(of course industry is in full boom, with all the reconstruction to do)
New industries : metal fabrication/processing, fertilizer, poultry (in addition to petroleum, chemicals, textiles, construction materials, food processing)
Electricity production:
28.4 billion kWh (1998)
32.6 billion kWh (2004)
Electricity consumption:
26.4 billion kWh (1998)
33.7 billion kWh (2004)
(they now have to import electricity : 1.1 billion kWh (2004))
Exports (mostly oil) :
$12.7 billion (1999 est.)
$10.1 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Exports partners:
1999 : Russia, France, China
2003 : US 45.4%, Taiwan 8.8%, Canada 8.1%, Jordan 7.8%, Italy 7.4%, Morocco 4.9%, Brazil 4%
(USA is of course getting it's just reward for freeing the iraqi people ! notice a few other coalition members too)
Imports:
1999 est : $8.9 billion
2004 est : $9.9 billion f.o.b.
Imports partners:
1999 : Russia, France, Egypt, Vietnam
2003 : Jordan 14.8%, Vietnam 11.5%, US 7.4%, Germany 5.4%, Russia 5.1%, UK 5.1%, France 4.1%, Italy 4%
Economic aid (recipient):
$327.5 million (1995)
More than $33 billion in foreign aid pledged for 2004-07
Railways:
total in 2000: 2,032 km
total in 2005: 1,963 km (guess the 69 missing km have been destroyed/bombed)
Waterways:
2000 : 1,015 km
2005 : 5,275 km (not all navigable)
(I don't get why there's such a big difference, probably a change of the counting method)
Pipelines:
2000 : crude oil 4,350 km; petroleum products 725 km; natural gas 1,360 km
2004 : oil 5,418 km; refined products 1,343 km; gas 1,739 km
(whow ! seems somehow the pipelines are alergic to bomb explosions ! they even got quite some longer)
Merchant marine:
(1999 est :) total: 32 ships totaling 606,227 GRT/1,067,770 DWT
ships by type: (cargo 14, passenger 1, passenger/cargo 1, petroleum tanker 13, refrigerated cargo 1, roll-on/roll-off 2)
(2005 :) total: 14 ships totaling 83,221 GRT/125,255 DWT (by type: cargo 11, petroleum tanker 3)
(what exactly happened to the other ships ?)
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Sponsor |  Coffee | May 16, 2005 4:20am | | Can you dig up some data on Afghanistan as well, please? Preferably from the beginning of American involvement in the 80's to the present. The irony of it is that Aghanistan appears to now be run by drug lords, and I wonder if they are doing as bad or even worse than they were under the Taliban. |
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