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Georgetown

overall rank: 7

1998 rank: 6

country: Malaysia

population: 1,329,503

snapshot: Georgetown at a glance		rank
overall score	64	7
average income US$	15,462.92	9
educational spending ¹	135.60	22
ratio of house price to income ²	6.68	8
hospital beds per 1000 people	2.7	20
pollution ³	115	17
vehicles per km of road	85	12
criminal cases per 10,000	67.0	22
TV sets per 1,000 people	210	20
inflation	4	-
GDP growth	1	30
unemployment rate	5.00	20
average class size	41.0	31
life expectancy	72.0	18.0
commute time	25	7
phones per 1,000 people	405	16

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notes:
All monetary values are PPP adjusted
^a estimates
^b national figure
^c officially, land cannot be bought or sold
¹ state educational spending, per capita US$
² average house price divided by average annual income
³ suspended particles, micrograms per cubic meter (µ/m³)

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