ASIA NOW   east asia   southeast asia   south asia   central asia   australasia  TIME ASIA  ASIAWEEK   current issue   intelligence   daily briefing   magazine archive   newsmap   technology    internet index   web features   customer service   subscribe  BIZ ASIA  SPORTS ASIA  SHOWBIZ ASIA  ASIA WEATHER  TRAVEL WATCH asia's best cities  1999 | 1998 | 1997 |  1996 web features <<		Find Your City! BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN BANDUNG BANGALORE BANGKOK BEIJING BOMBAY CEBU CITY CHIANG MAI CHITTAGONG CHONGQING COLOMBO DAVAO CITY DELHI DHAKA FUKUOKA GEORGETOWN GUANGZHOU HANOI HO CHI MINH HONG KONG ISLAMABAD JAKARTA KAOHSIUNG KARACHI KATHMANDU KUALA LUMPUR KUCHING MACAU METRO MANILA OSAKA PHNOM PENH PUSAN SEOUL SHANGHAI SINGAPORE SURABAYA TAIPEI TOKYO VIENTIANE YANGON back | next T H E    C I T I E S Shanghai overall rank: 9 1998 rank: 13 country: China population: 13,075,000 snapshot: Shanghai at a glance rank overall score 62 9 average income US$ 5,985.81 23 educational spending 1 288.56 18 ratio of house price to income 2 20.53 18 hospital beds per 1000 people 5.4 10 pollution 3 215 28 vehicles per km of road 113 15 criminal cases per 10,000 8.0 9 TV sets per 1,000 people 457 5 inflation -4.9 - GDP growth 10 3 unemployment rate 2.90 8 average class size 58.0 36 life expectancy 77.0 8.0 commute time 55 28 phones per 1,000 people 480 11 related links Resources Shanghai on the internet Shanghai Panorama Shanghai Vista Weather ASIANOW weather 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) Asiaweek Features home | Asiaweek home Quick Scroll: More stories and related stories Asiaweek Newsmap: Get the week's leading news stories, by region, from Newsmap  Search AsiaNow TIME Only Asiaweek Only CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNfn.com The Web

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