nd individual citizens has been steadily increasing. China's real GDP growth rate is 9.1 percent. China's telephone system domestic and international services are increasingly available for private use; unevenly distributed domestic system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and many towns. China has more than a dozen major ports, 332 airports with paved runways, and 1,402,698 kilometers of highways.
East Timor: According to the BBC New Country Profiles (Online), East Timor has a population of approximately 1 million people with a median age of 20 years. The official language is Tetum and the literacy rate is 59 percent. In late 1999, about 70% of the economic infrastructure of East Timor was destroyed by Indonesian troops and anti-independence militias, and 260,000 people fled westward. Over the next three years, however, a massive international program led to substantial reconstruction in both urban and rural areas. However, 42 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. There are 3,800 kilometers of roads. There is no reli
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