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- Exchange Rate: 1 US$
- 1 (US$)
- Population:
- 12 754 378
- Urban population (2009):
- 38%
- GDP growth rate (real, 2011):
- 9.3%
- GNI Per Capita, PPP (US$) 2011:
- 640 (Atlas method)
- HDI (Global Ranking) (2011):
- 0.376 (173)
- Access to formal financial institution:
- 39.7%
- Outstanding loan to purchase a home:
- 0.8%
- Outstanding loan for home construction:
- 3.7%
- Cost of standard 50kg bag of cement (in US$):
- 12
- Price of the cheapest, newly built house by a formal developer (in US$):
- 12 500
- Size of this house (in m²):
- 30m²
- Minimum stand or plot size for residential property:
- 150m²
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