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Cambodia’s country conventional long form name is Kingdom of Cambodia. Locally, it is called Preahreacheanachakr Kampuchea or Kampuchea for short. Formerly, its name was Khmer Republic, Democratic Kampuchea, People’s Republic of Kampuchea, State of Cambodia.

Cambodia’s national symbol is Angkor Wat temple, kouprey (wild ox), while its national colors are red and blue. Its national anthem is “Nokoreach” or Royal Kingdom in English. Its capital is Phnom Penh, with geographic coordinates of 11 33 N, 104 55 E.

Sources: The World Factbook, UNDP, World Bank Open Data

Unemployment rate: 0.3% in 2017

Population below poverty line: 17.7% in 2012

Household income or consumption by percentage share: 2% for the lowest 10% and 28% for the highest 10% in 2013

Economics

Political parties and leaders: Cambodian National Rescue Party or CNRP [KHEM SOKHA], Cambodian Nationality Party or CNP [SENG SOKHENG] Cambodian People’s Party or CPP [HUN SEN] Khmer Economic Development Party or KEDP [HUON REACH CHAMROEUN] National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia or FUNCINPEC [Prince NORODOM RANARIDDH]

International organizations: ADB, ARF, ASEAN, CICA, CICA (observer), EAS, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, MINUSMA, MIGA, NAM, OIF, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNISFA, UNMISS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, and WTO

Politics

King: Norodom Sihamoni

Prime Minister: Hun Sen

Female representation in parliament: –

Government type: Unitary dominant-party parliamentary elective constitutional monarchy

Administrative districts: 24 provinces (khett, singular and plural) and 1 municipality (krong, singular and plural)

Independence: 9 November 1953 (from France)

National holidays: Independence Day, 9 November (1953)

Military expenditure: 1.85% of GDP in 2016

Military branches: Royal Cambodian Armed Forces: Royal Cambodian Army, Royal Khmer Navy, Royal Cambodian Air Force; the Royal Cambodian Gendarmerie is the military police force responsible for internal security; the National Committee for Maritime Security performs Coast Guard functions and has representation from military and civilian agencies in 2013

Government

Nationality: Cambodian

Population: 16,204,486 in July 2017

Ethnic groups: Khmer 97.6%, Cham 1.2%, Chinese 0.1%, Vietnamese 0.1%, other 0.9% in 2013

Religions: Buddhist (official) 96.9%, Muslim 1.9%, Christian 0.4%, other 0.8% in 2008

Age structure: 0-14 years: 31.01% (male 2,537,753/female 2,487,633) 15-24 years: 18.36% (male 1,471,965/female 1,503,977) 25-54 years: 40.68% (male 3,229,901/female 3,361,475) 55-64 years: 5.69% (male 374,663/female 547,971) 65 years and over: 4.25% (male 258,584/female 430,564) in 2017

Dependency ratio: total dependency ratio: 55.6 youth dependency ratio: 49.2 elderly dependency ratio: 6.4 potential support ratio: 15.6 in 2015

Population growth rate: 1.52% in 2017

Birth rate: 23 births/1,000 population in 2017

Death rate: 7.5 deaths/1,000 population in 2017

Urban population: 21.2% of total population in 2017

Rate of urbanization: 2.73% annual rate of change in 2015-20

Demographics

Education expenditures: 1.9% of GDP in 2014

Literacy rate (age 15 and over can read and write): 77.2% of total population

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education): 11 years total in 2010

Unemployment: 0.5% in total

Female labour force participation rate: –

Education

Natural resources: oil and gas, timber, gemstones, iron ore, manganese, phosphates, hydropower potential, arable land

Agriculture products: rice, rubber, corn, vegetables, cashews, cassava (manioc, tapioca), silk

Industries: tourism, garments, construction, rice milling, fishing, wood and wood products, rubber, cement, gem mining, textiles

Industrial production growth rate: 10.6% in 2017

Labor force: 7.897 million in 2017

Labor force by occupation: agriculture (48.7%), industry (19.9%), and services (31.5%) in 2013

Exports: $10.45 billion in 2017

Commodities: clothing, timber, rubber, rice, fish, tobacco, footwear

Imports: $14.34 billion in 2017

Commodities: petroleum products, cigarettes, gold, construction materials, machinery, motor vehicles, pharmaceutical products

Natural Resources

World Press Freedom Index: –

Total subscriptions of fixed lines: 227,261 and the subscriptions per 100 inhabitants was 1.5 in July 2016

Total subscriptions of mobile cellular: 19,915,503 and the subscriptions per 100 inhabitants was 125 in July 2016

International country code: 855 (international service is available)

Broadcast media: 9 TV broadcast stations with most operating on multiple channels, including 1 state-operated station broadcasting from multiple locations, 6 stations either jointly operated or privately owned with some broadcasting from several locations, and 2 TV relay stations in 2009

Internet country code: .kh

Internet users: 4,080,372 in total that is 25.6% of population in July 2016

Culture

Flora and Fauna

Area: 181,035 sq km in total with 176,515 sq km of land and 4,520 sq km of water

Land boundaries: 2,530 km in total

Border country: Laos 555 km, Thailand 817 km, Vietnam 1,158 km

Climate: tropical; rainy, monsoon season (May to November); dry season (December to April); little seasonal temperature variation

Land use: 32.1% for agricultural land (22.7% arable land; 0.9% permanent crops; and 8.5% permanent pasture); 56.5% for forest; and 11.4% for other in 2011

Irrigated land: 3,540 sq km in 2012

Borderline

Maternal mortality ratio: 161 deaths/100,000 live births in 2015

Infant mortality rate: 47.4 deaths/1,000 live births in total in 2017

Life expectancy at birth: 64.9 years in total population in 2017

Total fertility rate: 2.52 children born/woman in 2017

Contraceptive prevalence: 56.3% in 2010.

Health expenditures: 5.7% of GDP in 2014.

Physicians density: 0.14 physicians/1,000 population in 2014

Hospital bed density: 0.8 beds/1,000 population in 2015