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Age structure 0-14 years: NA%

15-64 years: NA%

65 years and over: NA%
Airports 4 (2001)
Airports - with paved runways total: 2

1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2002)
Airports - with unpaved runways total: 2

under 914 m: 2 (2002)
Area total: 62,049 sq km

land: 62,049 sq km

water: 0 sq km

note: includes Spitsbergen and Bjornoya (Bear Island)
Area - comparative slightly smaller than West Virginia
Birth rate NA births/1,000 population
Budget revenues: $11.5 million

expenditures: $11.5 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1998 est.) (1998 est.)
Capital Longyearbyen
Coastline 3,587 km
Country name conventional long form: none

conventional short form: Svalbard (sometimes referred to as Spitzbergen)
Currency Norwegian krone (NOK)
Death rate NA deaths/1,000 population
Economic aid - recipient $8.2 million from Norway (1998)
Electricity - consumption NA kWh
Electricity - production NA kWh
Electricity - production by source fossil fuel: NA%

hydro: NA%

nuclear: NA%

other: NA%
Elevation extremes lowest point: Arctic Ocean 0 m

highest point: Newtontoppen 1,717 m
Environment - current issues NA
Ethnic groups Norwegian 55.4%, Russian and Ukrainian 44.3%, other 0.3% (1998)
Exchange rates Norwegian kroner per US dollar - 8.9684 (January 2002), 8.9917 (2001), 8.8018 (2000), 7.7992 (1999), 7.5451 (1998), 7.0734 (1997)
Executive branch chief of state: King HARALD V of Norway (since 17 January 1991)


Exports $NA
Flag description the flag of Norway is used
GDP purchasing power parity - $NA
GDP - per capita purchasing power parity - $NA
GDP - real growth rate NA%
Geographic coordinates 78 00 N, 20 00 E
Geography - note northernmost part of the Kingdom of Norway; consists of nine main islands; glaciers and snowfields cover 60% of the total area
Highways total: NA km

paved: NA km

unpaved: NA km

highest 10%: NA%
Imports $NA
Independence none (territory of Norway)
Industrial production growth rate NA%
Infant mortality rate NA deaths/1,000 live births
Inflation rate (consumer prices) NA%
International organization participation none
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) 13 (Svalbard and Jan Mayen) (2000)
Irrigated land NA sq km
Labor force NA
Land boundaries 0 km
Land use arable land: 0%

permanent crops: 0%

other: 100% (no trees, and the only bushes are crowberry and cloudberry) (1998 est.)
Languages Russian, Norwegian
Legal system NA
Life expectancy at birth total population: NA years

male: NA years

female: NA years
Literacy NA
Map references Arctic Region
Maritime claims exclusive fishing zone: 200 NM unilaterally claimed by Norway but not recognized by Russia

territorial sea: 4 NM
Merchant marine none (2002 est.)
Military - note demilitarized by treaty (9 February 1920)
National holiday NA
Natural resources coal, copper, iron ore, phosphate, zinc, wildlife, fish
Net migration rate NA migrant(s)/1,000 population
Population 2,868 (July 2002 est.)
Population below poverty line NA%
Population growth rate -1.99% (2002 est.)
Ports and harbors Barentsburg, Longyearbyen, Ny-Alesund, Pyramiden
Radio broadcast stations AM 1, FM 1 (plus 2 repeaters), shortwave 0 (1998)
Radios NA
Railways 0 km
Sex ratio NA
Telephone system general assessment: probably adequate

domestic: local telephone service

international: satellite earth station - 1 of unknown type (for communication with Norwegian mainland only)
Telephones - main lines in use NA
Telephones - mobile cellular NA
Television broadcast stations NA
Total fertility rate NA children born/woman
Waterways none