Myanmar troubles
Last reviewed: 15-01-2009
A SECRETIVE JUNTA WITH AN IRON FIST

KEY FACTS
| Population: | 49.0 million (U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division, 2006) |
| Average life expectancy: | 60.8 years (UNDP - Human Development Report 2007) |
| Infant mortality: | 75 per 1,000 live births (U.N. Children's Fund - State of the World's Children 2007) |
| People without enough to eat: | 5 million (World Food Programme, WFP, 2007) |
| Refugees: | 202,826 (U.N. Refugee Agency, UNHCR, 2007) |
| Refugees abroad not counted in official refugee statistics: | At least 1 million (Refugees International, June 2006) |
| Internally displaced: | At least 503,000 (as of 2008) (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2008) |
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