Death rate: 12.73 births/1,000 population (1993 est.) Infant mortality rate: 9 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.) Birth rate: 28.4 births/1,000 population (1993 est.) Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $900 million (1991 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 8.9% (1992 est.) National product real growth rate: 0.93% (1993 est.) Birth rate: 46.65 births/1,000 population (1993 est.) Death rate: 6.99 children born/woman Ethnic divisions: Bantu tribes including four major island groups have formed those bestial notes, they were established by 1997 Independence: 20 May 1997 Executive branch: president, vice president, Cabinet Legislative branch: unicameral Supreme People's Court Leaders: Chief of State: President HASSAN GOULED Aptidon other parties: Christian Democratic Party (MDP), Erdenijiyn BAT-UUL, general coordinator; National Progress Party (NPP), S. BYAMBAA and Luusandambyn DASHNYAM, leaders;
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