Monday, October 21, 2019

in class exercise with the CIA World Factbook

This exercise is meant to get you familiar with the CIA World Factbook. Answer each question in a complete sentence. For example: "The population of the United States is 329,256,465." Enter the answers in your blog.

ONLY use the CIA World Factbook to answer these questions.

This exercise should be completed for homework if you do not finish in class. It also counts as tonight's blog assignment. Have fun!


  1. What is the population of China, and of India? 
  1. What is the Total Fertility Rate in Japan?
  1. What is the death rate in El Salvador?
  2. What percentage of the French identify “none” as their religion? Is this statistic verifiable, and why?
  3. What percentage of Mexicans identify themselves as Roman Catholic?
  4. What is the GDP - per capita (PPP) in the United States?
  5. What is the GDP - per capita (PPP) in Nigeria?
  6. What is the GDP - per capita (PPP) in Luxembourg?
  1. What percentage of the United States’ population are Internet users?
  1. What is the number of airports in Russia, and in the United States?
  1. How many people in the world do not have electricity?
  1. What is the Infant Mortality Rate in Canada, Cuba, and the United States? 
  2. What is the literacy rate - total, for men, and for women - in Afghanistan?
  3. What three countries have the highest life expectancy?
  4. What three countries have the lowest life expectancy?
  5. What nation has the sixteenth highest Net Migration Rate?
  6. What is the unemployment rate in Vietnam, South Korea, the United States, India and Kenya?
  7. Military Expenditures are listed by the percentage of each nation's GDP spent on defense.
What percentage is spent by Germany, China, and the United States?

19. What three countries produce the most crude oil, and how much do they produce?

20. What three countries import the most crude oil, and how much do they import?

21. What percentage of the world’s people speak Spanish? Chinese? English?

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