Name | Dominican Republic |
Long name | Dominican Republic |
Population (source) | census |
Population (people) | 9,445,281 (2010) |
Constitutional form | Republic |
Drives on | Right |
Head of state authority | Executive |
Main continent | America |
Number of airports | 36 |
Airports - with paved runways | 16 |
Airports - with unpaved runways | 20 |
Area (m²) | 48,442 |
Birth rate (births/1,000 population) | 19 |
Calling code | |
Children under the age of 5 years underweight (%) | 3 |
Current Account Balance (US$) | -4,456,000,000 |
Death rate (deaths/1,000 population) | 4 |
Debt - external (Billion US$) | 14 |
Economic aid donor (Billion $) | |
Electricity consumption (billion kWh) | 13 |
Electricity consumption per capita (kWh per person) | 1,276 |
Electricity exports (million kWh) | 0 |
Electricity imports (million kWh) | 0 |
Electricity production (billion kWh) | 15 |
Exports (Billion $) | 9 |
GDP - per capita (PPP) (US$) | 9,400 |
GDP (purchasing power parity) (Billion $) | 95 |
GDP real growth rate (%) | 5 |
Gross national income (US$) | 47 |
Human Development Index | 1 |
Health expenditures (% of GDP) | 6 |
Heliports | 1 |
HIV AIDS adult prevalence rate (%) | 1 |
HIV AIDS deaths | 2,300 |
HIV AIDS people living with HIV AIDS | 57,000 |
Hospital bed density (beds/1,000 population) | 1 |
Capital city | Santo Domingo |
Currency | Dominican peso |
Imports (Billion $) | 17 |
Industrial production growth rate (%) | 2 |
Infant mortality rate (deaths/1,000 live births) | 21 |
Inflation rate consumer prices (%) | 9 |
Internet hosts | 404,057 |
Internet tld | .do |
Internet users | 2,701,000 |
Investment (gross fixed) (%) | 17 |
Iso 3166 code | DO |
ISO CODE | DOM |
Labor force | 4,732,000 |
Life expectancy at birth (years) | 77 |
Literacy (%) | 87 |
Manpower available for military service | 2,580,083 |
Manpower fit for military service | 2,188,358 |
Manpower reaching militarily age annually | 100,047 |
Is democracy | Yes |
Market value of publicly traded shares (US$) | |
Maternal mortality rate (deaths/100,000 live births) | 150 |
Merchant marine | 1 |
Military expenditures percent of GDP | 1 |
Natural gas consumption (cubic meters) | 560,000,000 |
Natural gas consumption per capita (cubic meters per person) | 56 |
Natural gas exports (cubic meters) | 0 |
Natural gas imports (cubic meters) | 560,000,000 |
Natural gas production (cubic meters) | 0 |
Natural gas proved reserves (cubic meters) | 0 |
Net migration rate (migrant/1,000 population) | -2 |
Obesity adult prevalence rate (%) | |
Oil consumption (bbl/day) | 119,000 |
Oil consumption per capita (bbl/day per 1000 people) | 12 |
Oil exports (bbl/day) | 0 |
Oil imports (bbl/day) | 107,300 |
Oil production (bbl/day) | 392 |
Oil proved reserves (bbl) | 0 |
Physicians density (physicians/1,000 population) | |
Population below poverty line (%) | 34 |
Population census (people) | 9,445,281 (2010) |
Population density (Number of people per square kilometer) | 207 |
Population estimate (people) | 10,075,045 (2016) |
Population growth rate (%) | 1 |
Public debt (% of GDP) | 36 |
Railways (km) | 142 |
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold (US$) | 2,902,000,128 |
Roadways (km) | 19,705 |
Stock of direct foreign investment abroad (US$) | 59,000,000 |
Stock of direct foreign investment at home (US$) | 21,379,999,744 |
Telephones main lines in use | 1,044,000 |
Telephones main lines in use per capita | 10 |
Telephones mobile cellular | 8,771,000 |
Telephones mobile cellular per capita | 88 |
Total fertility rate (children born/woman) | 2 |
Unemployment rate (%) | 13 |
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 (%) | 30 |
Waterways (km) | |
Valley | Cibao Valley, Valle nuevo |
Helicopter | |
Canyon | |
Artillery | |
Crater | |
Religion | Catholic church |
Continent | America |
Border | Frontière entre Haïti et la République dominicaine |
Plateau | |
Marsh | |
Demonym | dominican, quisqueyano |