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SOCIAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS FOR SELECTED COUNTRIES

OCTOBER 2002

TABLE IN-1

	ASIA	EUROPE				AMERICA
	JAPAN	FRANCE	GERMANY	SWEDEN	UNITED KINGDOM	CANADA	MEXICO	UNITED STATES
Population 1/	126,771,662	59,551,227	83,029,536	8,875,053	59,647,790	31,592,805	101,879,171	281,421,906
Land Area 1/ (square kilometers)	374,744	545,630	349,223	410,934	241,590	9,220,970	1,923,040	9,158,960
Population Density (persons per square kilometer)	338.3	109.1	237.8	21.6	246.9	3.4	53.0	30.7
GDP (billion $) 1/ (Purchasing Power Parity)	$3.150	$1.448	$1.936	$0.197	$1.360	$0.775	$0.915	$9.963
GDP per Capita ($) 1/ (Purchasing power parity)	$24,900	$24,400	$23,400	$22,200	$22,800	$24,800	$9,100	$36,200
Percent of Surface Passenger 2/ Kilometers by Road Transport	58.4%	92.1%	91.8%	93.9%	94.6%	99.7%	N/A	99.6%
Percent of Surface Freight 2/ Ton Kilometers by Road Transport	55.8%	67.5%	65.1%	63.4%	83.5%	22.0%	N/A	31.7%

1/ Data source: "The World Fact Book - 2001" of the U.S. Central Intelligency Agency (CIA).
2/ Data is for 1999 from "OECD in Figures - 2001 edition".

Population
Population Chart - data from the above table

Land Area
Land Area Chart - data from the above table

Population Density
Population Density Chart - data from the above table

GDP per Capita
GDP per Capita Chart - data from the above table

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