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Population: 54 million 2@R&6> l` <.%&
Rural population: 67%73 6=+&2=%6.2@R&6> {n%
Surface area: 676,000 km2 É>/?" {n{GGG !#5>.%&=H2/5$H#"
Life expectancy: 6574 -+$%&$)+<=%#$%& {l()!%
Fertility rate: 2 children per woman75 =62&6$3&(M.%& '$+/,&<$H&#!%R&2)+:% =62&()!%R&
Adolescent fertility rate: 11 (number of births per 1,000 women aged 15-19)76
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Primary school enrolment: 114%79: boys: 114.7%80; girls: 113.6%81 $@2#.%&6=+":%&6.$M
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Tertiary education enrolment: 13.4%85: men: 12%86; women: 14.7%87 #=Å</52%G:%(M.%&
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Mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people: 1388 2@ `GG 2)+:% $/5D/5:%&75.%& '<A5&8-,$M `a R&
Unlike its larger neighbours India and China, Myanmar has gender equality at the level of
basic survival.89 However, as with everything in Myanmar, decades of mismanagement,
corruption and severe and sustained human rights violations have left the country with
significant gender-based discrimination and, in particular, severe gender-based violence.
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