Capital: Naypyidaw
Head of state: Than Shwe
Languages: Burmese
Population: 50,020,000
Surface area: 676,578 km2
Currency: kyat (K)
GDP at current prices (US$ million 2008): 27.182
GDP at current prices per capita (US$ 2008): 465
Growth rate of GDP (at constant prices percent 2008): 4.5

Inflation rate(2008): 2.6
Principle Exports: natural gas, wood products, pulses, beans, fish, rice, clothing, jade and gems
Largest companies: Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) , Win Cherry Company Limited, Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings.
Value of exports (US$ million 2008): 6,621
Top business school: Myanmar Maritime University
Adult literacy rate percent(2006):
Male: 92.2
Female: 91.4
Human development index (2007): 0.586
Unemployment rate percent (2007): 4.0
Energy consumption: biomass energy at about 65% consumption, crude oil at 15% consumption
Energy sources: thermal power, wood fuel, natural gas, hydropower