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Yangon
overall rank:
34
1998 rank:
29
country:
Myanmar
population:
3,518,444
| snapshot: Yangon at a glance |
rank |
| overall score |
42 |
34 |
| average income US$ |
155.85 |
40 |
| educational spending 1 |
0.65 |
40 |
| ratio of house price to income 2 |
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| hospital beds per 1000 people |
2.1 |
23 |
| pollution 3 |
75a |
11 |
| vehicles per km of road |
53 |
6 |
| criminal cases per 10,000 |
36.1 |
19 |
| TV sets per 1,000 people |
59 |
35 |
| inflation |
28.7 |
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| GDP growth |
5 |
12 |
| unemployment rate |
4.08 |
14 |
| average class size |
40 |
24 |
| life expectancy |
62.2 |
34 |
| commute time |
45 |
45 |
| phones per 1,000 people |
32 |
37 |
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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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