Lebanon

Area:10,400 sq km Land: 10,230 sq km Arable land: 18% Irrigated land: 860 sq km

Infant mortality rate: 28.35 deaths/1,000 live births
Total fertility rate: 2.05 children born/woman

Religions: Muslim 70%, Christian 30%, Jewish NEGL%
Ethnic groups: Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1%
Judicial System: four Courts of Cassation; Constitutional Council rules on constitutionality of laws; Supreme Council (hears charges against the president and prime minister as needed)
Legal system: mixture of Ottoman law, canon law, Napoleonic code, and civil law

GDP per capita: $5,000 GDP — agriculture: 12% industry: 27% services: 61% Unemployment rate:18% Literacy — male: 90.8% female: 82.2%

Exports: $700 million Commodities: foodstuffs and tobacco, textiles, chemicals, precious stones, metal and metal products, electrical equipment
and products, jewelry, paper and paper products
Exports partners: UAE 9%, Saudi Arabia 8%, Syria 6%, US 6%, Kuwait 6%, France 5%, Belgium 5%, Jordan 4%

Imports: $6.2 billion Commodities: agricultural and foodstuffs, machinery and transport equipment, consumer goods, chemicals, textiles, metals, fuels

Imports partners: Italy 13%, France 11%, Germany 8%, US 7%, Switzerland 6%, Japan, UK, Syria
Telephones — main lines in use: 700,000 Internet Service Providers: 22

Manpower fit for military service: 605,332
Military expenditures: $343 million — 4.8% of GDP