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Status: Autonomous part of Denmark
Chief of State: Queen Margrethe II
(1972)
High Commissioner: Gunnar Martens
(1995)
Premier: Jonathan Motzfeldt
(1997)
Total area: 131,931 sq mi (341,701 sq km)
Population (2007 est.): 56,344 (growth
rate: 0.0%); birth rate: 16.0/1000; infant mortality rate:
15.0/1000; life expectancy: 70.2; density per sq mi: 0.0
Capital and largest city (2003 est.):
Godthaab, 14,100
Monetary unit: Krone
Languages: Greenlandic (East Inuit),
Danish, English
Ethnicity/race: Greenlander 88% (Eskimos
and Greenland-born whites), Danish and other 12% (2000)
Religion: Evangelical Lutheran
Literacy rate: n.a.
Economic summary: GDP/PPP: (2001
est.): $1.1 billion; $20,000 per capita. Real growth rate:
1.8%. Inflation: 1.6% (1999 est.). Unemployment: 10%
(2000 est.). Arable land: 0%. Agriculture: forage
crops, garden and greenhouse vegetables; sheep, reindeer; fish .
Labor force: 24,500 (1995 est.). Industries: fish
processing (mainly shrimp and Greenland halibut); gold, niobium,
tantalite, uranium, iron and diamond mining; handicrafts, hides and
skins, small shipyards. Natural resources: zinc, lead, iron
ore, coal, molybdenum, gold, platinum, uranium, fish, seals, whales,
hydropower, possible oil and gas. Exports: $480 million
f.o.b. (2004 est.): fish and fish products 94% (prawns 63%).
Imports: $601 million c.i.f. (2004): machinery and transport
equipment, manufactured goods, food, petroleum products. Major
trading partners: Denmark, Japan, China, Sweden, Norway
(2004).
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