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Surabaya

overall rank: 31

1998 rank: 38

country: Indonesia

population: 2,824,838

snapshot: Surabaya at a glance		rank
overall score	43	31
average income US$	3,389.74	27
educational spending ¹	89.35	26
ratio of house price to income ²	34.88	23
hospital beds per 1000 people	1.8	29
pollution ³	102	15
vehicles per km of road	442	31
criminal cases per 10,000	3.5	4
TV sets per 1,000 people	108	28
inflation	2.06	-
GDP growth	-3.1	37
unemployment rate	10.50	34
average class size	32.1	12
life expectancy	70.0	22.0
commute time	60	30
phones per 1,000 people	182	24

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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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