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People
of Cambodia
All data
below is from the CIA Fact Sheet
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cb.html
- Population:
13,881,427
- Birth
Rate: 26.9 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
- Death
Rate: 9.06 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)
- Population
Growth Rate: 1.78% (2006 est.)
- Infant
Mortality Rate: total: 68.78 deaths/1,000 live births
Male: 77.35 deaths/1,000 live births
Female: 59.84 deaths/1,000 live births (2006 est.)
- HIV/AIDS,
People Living With: 170,000 (2003 est.)
- Nationality:
noun: Cambodian(s)
Adjective: Cambodian
- Ethnic
Groups: Khmer 90%, Vietnamese 5%, Chinese 1%, other
4%
- Religions:
Theravada Buddhist 95%, other 5%
- Languages:
Khmer (official) 95%, French, English
Government
- Government
Type: Multi-Party Democracy under a Constitutional
Monarchy
- Capital:
Phnom Penh
- Independence:
9 November 1953 (from France)
- National
Holiday: 9 November (Independence Day)
- Legal
System: primarily a civil law mixture of French-influenced
codes from the United Nations Transitional Authority
in Cambodia (UNTAC) period, royal decrees, and acts
of the legislature, with influences of customary law
and remnants of communist legal theory; increasing
influence of common law in recent years; accepts compulsory
ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations
- Suffrage:
18 years of age; universal
- Executive
Branch:
- Chief
of State: King Norodom SIHAMONI (since 29
October 2004)
- Head
of Government: Prime Minister HUN SEN (since
14 January 1985); Deputy Prime Ministers SAR KHENG
(since 3 February 1992); SOK AN, LU LAY SRENG,
TEA BANH, HOR NAMHONG, NHEK BUNCHHAY (since 16
July 2004); KEV PUT REAKSMEI (since 24 October
2006)
- Cabinet:
Council of Ministers in theory appointed by the
monarch; in practice named by the prime minister
-
Elections: none; the monarch is chosen
by a Royal Throne Council; following legislative
elections, a member of the majority party or majority
coalition is named prime minister by the Chairman
of the National Assembly and appointed by the
king.
- Legislative
Branch:
- Bicameral:
consists of the National Assembly (123 seats;
members elected by popular vote to serve five-year
terms) and the Senate (61 seats; 2 members appointed
by the monarch, 2 elected by the National Assembly,
and 57 elected by parliamentarians and commune
councils; members serve five-year terms)
- Elections:
National Assembly - last held 27 July 2003 (next
to be held in July 2008); Senate - last held 22
January 2006 (next to be held in January 2011)
-
Election results: National Assembly - percent
of vote by party - CPP 47%, SRP 22%, FUNCINPEC
21%, other 10%; seats by party - CPP 73, FUNCINPEC
26, SRP 24; Senate - percent of vote by party
- CPP 69%, FUNCINPEC 21%, SRP 10%; seats by party
- CPP 45, FUNCINPEC 10, SRP 2 (January 2006)
- Judicial
Branch:
- Supreme
Council of the Magistracy (provided for in the
constitution and formed in December 1997)
- Supreme
Court (and lower courts) exercises judicial authority
- Political
Icons and Parties:
- Cambodian
People's Party or CPP [CHEA SIM]
- National
United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful,
and Cooperative Cambodia or FUNCINPEC [KEV PUT
REAKSMEI]
- Norodom
Ranariddh Party or NRP [Norodom RANARIDDH]
- Sam
Rangsi Party or SRP [SAM RANGSI]
- Diplomatic
Representation in the US:
- chief
of mission: Ambassador EK SEREYWATH
- chancery:
4530 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20011
- telephone:
[1] (202) 726-7742
- FAX:
[1] (202) 726-8381
- Cambodian
Budget:
- revenues:
$731 million
- expenditures:
$931.8 million; including capital expenditures
of $291 million (2006 est.)
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