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Background: Most Cambodians consider themselves to be Khmers, descendants of the Angkor Empire that extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries. Attacks by the Thai and Cham (from present-day Vietnam) weakened the empire, ushering in a long period of decline. The king placed the country under French protection in 1863, and it became part of French Indochina in 1887. Following Japanese occupation in World War II, Cambodia gained full independence from France in 1953. In April 1975, after a seven-year struggle, communist Khmer Rouge forces captured Phnom Penh and evacuated all cities and towns. At least 1.5 million Cambodians died from execution, forced hardships, or starvation during the Khmer Rouge regime under POL POT. A December 1978 Vietnamese invasion drove the Khmer Rouge into the countryside, began a 10-year Vietnamese occupation, and touched off almost 13 years of civil war.The 1991 Paris Peace Accords mandated democratic elections and a cease-fire, which was not fully respected by the Khmer Rouge. UN-sponsored elections in 1993 helped restore some semblance of normalcy under a coalition government. Factional fighting in 1997 ended the first coalition government, but a second round of national elections in 1998 led to the formation of another coalition government and renewed political stability. The remaining elements of the Khmer Rouge surrendered in early 1999. Some of the surviving Khmer Rouge leaders have been tried or are awaiting trial for crimes against humanity by a hybrid UN-Cambodian tribunal supported by international assistance. Elections in July 2003 were relatively peaceful, but it took one year of negotiations between contending political parties before a coalition government was formed. In October 2004, King Norodom SIHANOUK abdicated the throne and his son, Prince Norodom SIHAMONI, was selected to succeed him. The most recent local (Commune Council) elections were held in Cambodia in 2012, with little of the preelection violence that preceded prior elections. National elections in July 2013 were disputed, with the opposition - the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) - boycotting the National Assembly. The political impasse was ended nearly a year later, with the CNRP agreeing to enter parliament in exchange for ruling party commitments to electoral and legislative reforms. The CNRP made further gains in local commune elections in June 2017, accelerating sitting Prime Minister Hun SEN’s efforts to marginalize the CNRP before national elections in 2018. Hun Sen arrested CNRP’s President Kem Sokha in September 2017 and subsequently dissolved the CNRP in November 2017 and banned its leaders from participating in politics for at least five years. CNRP’s seats in the National Assembly were redistributed to smaller, more pliant opposition parties.


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Location: Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, between Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos

Geographic coordinates: 13 00 N, 105 00 E

Map reference: Southeast Asia

Area
Total: 181,035 km²
Land: 176,515 km²
Water: 4,520 km²
Rank: 91
Comparative: one and a half times the size of Pennsylvania; slightly smaller than Oklahoma

Land boundaries
Total: 2,530 km
Border countries: (3) Laos 555 km; , Thailand 817 km; , Vietnam 1158 km

Coastline: 443 km

Maritime claims
Territorial sea: 12 nm
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
Contiguous zone: 24 nm
Continental shelf: 200 nm

Climate: tropical; rainy, monsoon season (May to November); dry season (December to April); little seasonal temperature variation

Terrain: mostly low, flat plains; mountains in southwest and north

Elevation
Mean elevation: 126 m
Elevation extremes: 0 m
Note: lowest point: Gulf of Thailand

Natural resources: oil and gas, timber, gemstones, iron ore, manganese, phosphates, hydropower potential, arable land

Land use
Agricultural land: 32.1% (2011 est.)
Forest: 56.5% (2011 est.)
Other: 11.4% (2011 est.)

Irrigated land: 3,540 km² (2012)

Major rivers

Major watersheds area km²

Total water withdrawal

Total renewable water resources

Natural hazards: monsoonal rains (June to November); flooding; occasional droughts

Geography
Note: a land of paddies and forests dominated by the Mekong River and Tonle Sap (Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake)


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Population
Distribution: population concentrated in the southeast, particularly in and around the capital of Phnom Penh; further distribution is linked closely to the Tonle Sap and Mekong Rivers: 16,449,519 (July 2018 est.)
Rank: 69
Growth rate: 1.48% (2018 est.)
Growth rate rank: 75
Below poverty line: 16.5% (2016 est.)

Nationality
Noun: Cambodian(s)
Adjective: Cambodian

Ethnic groups: Khmer 97.6%, Cham 1.2%, Chinese 0.1%, Vietnamese 0.1%, other 0.9% (2013 est.)

Languages: Khmer (official) 96.3%, other 3.7% (2008 est.)

Religions: Buddhist (official) 96.9%, Muslim 1.9%, Christian 0.4%, other 0.8% (2008 est.)

Demographic profile

Age structure
0-14 years: 30.76% (male 2,556,733 /female 2,503,796)
15-24 years: 17.84% (male 1,452,795 /female 1,482,065)
25-54 years: 41.09% (male 3,312,036 /female 3,446,962)
55-64 years: 5.94% (male 406,970 /female 569,383)
65 years and over: 4.37% (male 269,159 /female 449,620) (2018 est.)

Dependency ratios
Total dependency ratio: 55.6 (2015 est.)
Youth dependency ratio: 49.2 (2015 est.)
Elderly dependency ratio: 6.4 (2015 est.)
Potential support ratio: 15.6 (2015 est.)

Median age
Total: 25.7 years
Male: 24.9 years
Female: 26.4 years (2018 est.)
Rank: 155

Population growth rate: 1.48% (2018 est.)
Rank: 75

Birth rate: 22.5 births/1000 population (2018 est.)
Rank: 67

Death rate: 7.4 deaths/1000 population (2018 est.)
Rank: 114

Net migration rate: -0.3 migrant(s)/1000 population (2017 est.)
Rank: 115

Population distribution: population concentrated in the southeast, particularly in and around the capital of Phnom Penh; further distribution is linked closely to the Tonle Sap and Mekong Rivers

Urbanization
Urban population: 23.4% of total population
Note: (2015-20 est.)
Rate of urbanization: 3.25% annual rate of change

Major urban areas
Population: 1.952 million PHNOM PENH (capital) (2018)

Environment
Current issues: illegal logging activities throughout the country and strip mining for gems in the western region along the border with Thailand have resulted in habitat loss and declining biodiversity (in particular, destruction of mangrove swamps threatens natural fisheries); soil erosion; in rural areas, most of the population does not have access to potable water; declining fish stocks because of illegal fishing and overfishing; coastal ecosystems choked by sediment washed loose from deforested areas inland
International agreements party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
International agreements signed but not ratified: Law of the Sea

Air pollutants

Sex ratio
At birth: 1.04 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
0-14 years: 1.02 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
15-24 years: 0.98 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
25-54 years: 0.96 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
55-64 years: 0.65 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
65 years and over: 0.6 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
Total population: 0.94 male(s)/female (2017 est.)

Mothers mean age at first birth:

Maternal mortality ratio

Infant mortality rate
Total: 46.1 deaths/1000 live births (2018 est.)
Male: 52.5 deaths/1000 live births (2018 est.)
Female: 39.5 deaths/1000 live births (2018 est.)
Rank: 34

Life expectancy at birth
Total population: 65.2 years (2018 est.)
Male: 62.7 years (2018 est.)
Female: 67.9 years (2018 est.)
Rank: 182

Total fertility rate: 2.47 children born/woman (2018 est.)
Rank: 79

Contraceptive prevalence rate: 56.3% (2014)

Drinking water source
Urban: 0% of population
Rural: 30.9% of population
Total: 24.5% of population (2015 est.)

Current health expenditure

Physicians density: 0.14 physicians/1000 population (2014)

Hospital bed density: 0.8 beds/1000 population (2015)

Sanitation facility access
Urban: 11.9% of population (2015 est.)
Rural: 69.5% of population (2015 est.)
Total: 57.6% of population (2015 est.)

Hiv/Aids
Adult prevalence rate: 0.5% (2017 est.)
Adult prevalence rate rank: 64
People living with hivaids: 67,000 (2017 est.)
People living with hivaids rank: 52
Deaths: 1300 (2017 est.)
Deaths rank: 59

Major infectious diseases
Degree of risk: very high (2016)
Food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever (2016)
Vectorborne diseases: dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis, and malaria (2016)

Obesity adult prevalence rate: 3.9% (2016)
Rank: 188

Alcohol consumption

Tobacco use

Children under the age of 5 years underweight: 23.9% (2014)
Rank: 19

Education expenditures: 1.9% of GDP (2014)
Rank: 173

Literacy
Definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2015 est.)
Total population: 77.2% (2015 est.)
Male: 84.5% (2015 est.)
Female: 70.5% (2015 est.)

School life expectancy primary to tertiary education
Total: 11 years (2008)
Male: 11 years (2008)
Female: 10 years (2008)

Youth unemployment


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Country name
Conventional long form: Kingdom of Cambodia
Conventional short form: Cambodia
Local long form: Preahreacheanachakr Kampuchea (phonetic transliteration)
Local short form: Kampuchea
Former: Khmer Republic, Democratic Kampuchea, Peoples Republic of Kampuchea, State of Cambodia
Etymology: the English name Cambodia is an anglicization of the French Cambodge, which is the French transliteration of the native name Kampuchea

Government type: parliamentary constitutional monarchy

Capital
Name: Phnom Penh
Geographic coordinates: 11 33 N, 104 55 E
Time difference: UTC+7 (12 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)

Administrative divisions:

Dependent areas

Independence: 9 November 1953 (from France)

National holiday: Independence Day, 9 November (1953)

Constitution
History: previous 1947; latest promulgated 21 September 1993 (2017)
Amendments: proposed by the monarch, by the prime minister, or by the president of the National Assembly if supported by one-fourth of the Assembly membership; passage requires two-thirds majority of the Assembly membership; constitutional articles on the multiparty democratic form of government and the monarchy cannot be amended; amended 1999, 2008, 2014 (2017)

Legal system: civil law system (influenced by the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia) customary law, Communist legal theory, and common law

International law organization participation: accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; accepts ICCt jurisdiction

Citizenship
Citizenship by birth: no
Citizenship by descent only: at least one parent must be a citizen of Cambodia
Dual citizenship recognized: yes
Residency requirement for naturalization: 7 years

Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal

Executive branch
Chief of state: King Norodom SIHAMONI (since 29 October 2004)
Head of government: Prime Minister HUN SEN (since 14 January 1985); Permanent Deputy Prime Minister MEN SAM AN (since 25 September 2008); Deputy Prime Ministers SAR KHENG (since 3 February 1992), TEA BANH, Gen., HOR NAMHONG, NHEK BUNCHHAY (all since 16 July 2004), BIN CHHIN (since 5 September 2007), KEAT CHHON, YIM CHHAI LY (since 24 September 2008), KE KIMYAN (since 12 March 2009)
Cabinet: Council of Ministers named by the prime minister and appointed by the monarch
Electionsappointments: monarch chosen by the 9-member Royal Council of the Throne from among all eligible males of royal descent; following legislative elections, a member of the majority party or majority coalition named prime minister by the Chairman of the National Assembly and appointed by the monarch

Legislative branch
Description:
Elections:
Election results:

Judicial branch
Highest courts: Supreme Council (organized into 5- and 9-judge panels and includes a court chief and deputy chief); Constitutional Court (consists of 9 members); note - in 1997, the Cambodian Government requested UN assistance in establishing trials to prosecute former Khmer Rouge senior leaders for crimes against humanity committed during the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge regime; the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts in Cambodia (also called the Khmer Rouge Tribunal) were established and began hearings for the first case in 2009; court proceeding were ongoing in 2016
Judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court and Constitutional Council judge candidates recommended by the Supreme Council of Magistracy, a 17-member body chaired by the monarch and includes other high-level judicial officers; judges of both courts appointed by the monarch; Supreme Court judges appointed for life; Constitutional Council judges appointed for 9-year terms with one-third of the court renewed every 3 years
Subordinate courts: Appellate Court; provincial and municipal courts; Military Court

Political parties and leaders: Cambodia National Rescue Party or CNRP [KHEM SOKHA] (dissolved by the government in November 2017; formed from a 2012 merger of the Sam Rangsi Party or SRP and the former Human Rights Party or HRP [KHEM SOKHA, also spelled KEM SOKHA])Cambodian Nationality Party or CNP [SENG SOKHENG]Cambodian People's Party or CPP [HUN SEN]Khmer Economic Development Party or KEDP [HUON REACH CHAMROEUN]Khmer National Unity Party or KNUP [NHEK Bun Chhay]Khmer Will Party [KONG MONIKA]League for Democracy Party or LDP [KHEM Veasna]National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia or FUNCINPEC [Prince NORODOM RANARIDDH]

International organization participation: ADB, ARF, ASEAN, CICA, EAS, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, MINUSMA, MIGA, NAM, OIF, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNISFA, UNMISS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Diplomatic representation
In the us chief of mission: Ambassador CHUM SOUNRY (since 17 September 2018)
In the us chancery: 4,530 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20,011
In the us telephone: [1] (202) 726-7,742
In the us FAX: [1] (202) 726-8,381
From the us chief of mission: Ambassador William A. HEIDT (since 2 December 2015)
From the us embassy: #1, Street 96, Sangkat Wat Phnom, Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh
From the us mailing address: Unit 8,166, Box P, APO AP 96,546
From the us telephone: [855] (23) 728-000
From the us FAX: [855] (23) 728-600

Flag description:

National symbols: Angkor Wat temple, kouprey (wild ox); national colors: red, blue

National anthem
Name: Nokoreach (Royal Kingdom)
Lyricsmusic: CHUON NAT/F. PERRUCHOT and J. JEKYLL: note: adopted 1941, restored 1993; the anthem, based on a Cambodian folk tune, was restored after the defeat of the Communist regime

National heritage


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Economy overview: Cambodia has experienced strong economic growth over the last decade; GDP grew at an average annual rate of over 8% between 2000 and 2010 and about 7% since 2011. The tourism, garment, construction and real estate, and agriculture sectors accounted for the bulk of growth. Around 700,000 people, the majority of whom are women, are employed in the garment and footwear sector. An additional 500,000 Cambodians are employed in the tourism sector, and a further 200,000 people in construction. Tourism has continued to grow rapidly with foreign arrivals exceeding 2 million per year in 2007 and reaching 5.6 million visitors in 2017. Mining also is attracting some investor interest and the government has touted opportunities for mining bauxite, gold, iron and gems.Still, Cambodia remains one of the poorest countries in Asia and long-term economic development remains a daunting challenge, inhibited by corruption, limited human resources, high income inequality, and poor job prospects. According to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the percentage of the population living in poverty decreased to 13.5% in 2016. More than 50% of the population is less than 25 years old. The population lacks education and productive skills, particularly in the impoverished countryside, which also lacks basic infrastructure.The World Bank in 2016 formally reclassified Cambodia as a lower middle-income country as a result of continued rapid economic growth over the past several years. Cambodia’s graduation from a low-income country will reduce its eligibility for foreign assistance and will challenge the government to seek new sources of financing. The Cambodian Government has been working with bilateral and multilateral donors, including the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank and IMF, to address the country's many pressing needs; more than 20% of the government budget will come from donor assistance in 2018. A major economic challenge for Cambodia over the next decade will be fashioning an economic environment in which the private sector can create enough jobs to handle Cambodia's demographic imbalance.Textile exports, which accounted for 68% of total exports in 2017, have driven much of Cambodia’s growth over the past several years. The textile sector relies on exports to the United States and European Union, and Cambodia’s dependence on its comparative advantage in textile production is a key vulnerability for the economy, especially because Cambodia has continued to run a current account deficit above 9% of GDP since 2014.

Real gdp purchasing power parity:
Rank: 104

Real gdp growth rate:
Rank: 20

Real gdp per capita:
Rank: 177

Gross national saving:
Rank: 139

Gdp composition by end use
Household consumption: 76% (2017 est.)
Government consumption: 5.4% (2017 est.)
Investment in fixed capital: 21.8% (2017 est.)
Investment in inventories: 1.2% (2017 est.)
Exports of goods and services: 68.6% (2017 est.)
Imports of goods and services: -73% (2017 est.)

Gdp composition by sector of origin
Agriculture: 25.3% (2017 est.)
Industry: 32.8% (2017 est.)
Services: 41.9% (2017 est.)

Agriculture products: rice, rubber, corn, vegetables, cashews, cassava (manioc, tapioca), silk

Industries: tourism, garments, construction, rice milling, fishing, wood and wood products, rubber, cement, gem mining, textiles

Industrial production growth rate: 10.6% (2017 est.)
Rank: 11

Labor force: 8.913 million (2017 est.)
Rank: 56
By occupation agriculture: 48.7%
By occupation industry: 19.9%
By occupation services: 31.5% (2013 est.)

Unemployment rate:
Rank: 2

Youth unemployment

Population below poverty line: 16.5% (2016 est.)

Gini index

Household income or consumption by percentage share
Lowest 10: 28% (2013 est.)
Highest 10: 28% (2013 est.)

Distribution of family income gini index:
Rank: 78

Budget
Revenues: 3.947 billion (2017 est.)
Expenditures: 4.354 billion (2017 est.)
Surplus or deficit: -1.8% (of GDP) (2017 est.)
Surplus or deficit rank: 97

Taxes and other revenues: 17.9% (of GDP) (2017 est.)
Rank: 164

Public debt:
Rank: 165

Revenue

Fiscal year: calendar year

Inflation rate consumer prices:
Rank: 129

Central bank discount rate
Note: NA% (31 December 2012): 5.25% (31 December 2007)
Rank: 78

Commercial bank prime lending rate:
Rank: 75

Stock of narrow money:
Rank: 133

Stock of broad money:
Rank: 141

Stock of domestic credit:
Rank: 96

Market value of publicly traded shares: NA

Current account balance:
Rank: 162

Exports:
Rank: 87
Partners: US 21.5%, UK 9%, Germany 8.6%, Japan 7.6%, China 6.9%, Canada 6.7%, Spain 4.7%, Belgium 4.5% (2017)
Commodities: clothing, timber, rubber, rice, fish, tobacco, footwear

Imports:
Rank: 92
Commodities: petroleum products, cigarettes, gold, construction materials, machinery, motor vehicles, pharmaceutical products
Partners: China 34.1%, Singapore 12.8%, Thailand 12.4%, Vietnam 10.1% (2017)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
Rank: 69

Debt external:
Rank: 107

Stock of direct foreign investment at home: $29.17 billion (2014 est.)
Rank: 71

Stock of direct foreign investment abroad

Exchange rates:


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Electricity
Access population without electricity: 9.9 million (2013)
Access electrification total population: 34% (2013)
Access electrification urban areas: 97% (2013)
Access electrification rural areas: 18% (2013)
Production: 5.21 billion kWh (2016 est.)
Production rank: 121
Consumption: 5.857 billion kWh (2016 est.)
Consumption rank: 117
Exports: 0 kWh (2016 est.)
Exports rank: 116
Imports: 1.583 billion kWh (2016 est.)
Imports rank: 60
Installed generating capacity: 1.697 million kW (2016 est.)
Installed generating capacity rank: 119
Generation sources fossil fuels: 35% of total installed capacity (2016 est.)
Generation sources fossil fuels rank: 178
Generation sources nuclear: 0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Generation sources nuclear rank: 61
Generation sources hydroelectricity: 63% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Generation sources hydroelectricity rank: 27
Generation sources other renewable sources: 2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Generation sources other renewable sources rank: 136

Coal

Petroleum
Petroleum total petroleum production: 0 bbl/day (2017 est.)
Petroleum total petroleum production rank: 118
Crude oil exports: 0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil exports rank: 103
Crude oil imports: 0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil imports rank: 106
Crude oil proven reserves: 0 bbl (1 January 2018 est.)
Crude oil proven reserves rank: 115

Crude oil

Refined petroleum
Products production: 0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Products production rank: 127
Products consumption: 45,000 bbl/day (2016 est.)
Products consumption rank: 108
Products exports: 0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Products exports rank: 140
Products imports: 43,030 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Products imports rank: 86

Natural gas
Production: 0 m³ (2017 est.)
Production rank: 113
Consumption: 0 m³ (2017 est.)
Consumption rank: 129
Exports: 0 m³ (2017 est.)
Exports rank: 78
Imports: 0 m³ (2017 est.)
Imports rank: 102
Proven reserves: 0 m³ (1 January 2014 est.)
Proven reserves rank: 119

Carbon dioxide emissions
From consumption of energy: 10.55 million Mt (2017 est.)
From consumption of energy rank: 104

Energy consumption per capita


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Telephones
Fixed lines total subscriptions: 132,911 (2017 est.)
Fixed lines subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 1 (2017 est.)
Fixed lines rank: 136
Mobile cellular total subscriptions: 18,572,973 (2017 est.)
Mobile cellular subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 115 (2017 est.)
Mobile cellular rank: 60

Telephone system
General assessment: adequate fixed-line and/or cellular service in Phnom Penh and other provincial cities; mobile-cellular phone systems are widely used in urban areas to bypass deficiencies in the fixed-line network; mobile-phone coverage is rapidly spreading in rural areas; about 50% of Cambodians own at least one smart phone; in 2018 the MPTC began a free Wi-Fi service for visitors and residents of Phnom Penh, in selected parks around the city customers can access free Wi-Fi services (2017)
Domestic: fixed-line connections stand at about 1 per 100 persons and declining; mobile-cellular usage, aided by competition among service providers, has increased to about 115 per 100 persons; in 2021 Camboidia hopes to launch it first communications satellite into orbit; fixed broadband penetration is predicted to reach over 2% by 2023 (2017)
International: country code - 855; adequate but expensive landline and cellular service available to all countries from Phnom Penh and major provincial cities; satellite earth station - 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region) (2016)

Broadcast media: mixture of state-owned, joint public-private, and privately owned broadcast media; 14 TV broadcast stations with most operating on multiple channels, including 1 state-operated station broadcasting from multiple locations, 11 stations either jointly operated or privately owned with some broadcasting from several locations, and 2 TV relay stations - one relaying a French TV station and the other relaying a Vietnamese TV station; multi-channel cable and satellite systems are available (2018); roughly 50 radio broadcast stations - 1 state-owned broadcaster with multiple stations and a large mixture of public and private broadcasters; several international broadcasters are available (2009)

Internet
Country code: .kh
Users total: 4,080,372 (July 2016 est.)
Users percent of population: 25.6% (July 2016 est.)
Users rank: 86

Broadband fixed subscriptions
Total: 129,650 (2017 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 1 (2017 est.)
Rank: 117


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Military expenditures:
Rank: 56

Military and security forces

Military service age and obligation: 18 is the legal minimum age for compulsory and voluntary military service (2012)

Space program

Terrorist groups


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National air transport system
Number of registered air carriers: 4 (2015)
Inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 10 (2015)
Annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 1,103,880 (2015)
Annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 2,301,260
Note: mt-km (2015)

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix: XU (2016)

Airports: 16 (2013)
Rank: 142
With paved runways total: 6 (2017)
With paved runways 2438 to 3047 m: 3 (2017)
With paved runways 15-24 to 2437 m: 2 (2017)
With paved runways 914 to 1523 m: 1 (2017)
With unpaved runways total: 10 (2013)
With unpaved runways 15-24 to 2437 m: 2 (2013)
With unpaved runways 914 to 1523 m: 7 (2013)
With unpaved runways under 914 m: 1 (2013)

Heliports: 1 (2013)

Pipelines

Railways
Total: 642 km (2014)
Narrow gauge: 642 km
Note: 1.000-m gauge (2014): note: under restoration
Rank: 107

Roadways
Total: 44,709 km (2010)
Paved: 3,607 km (2010)
Unpaved: 41,102 km (2010)
Rank: 80

Waterways: 3,700 km
Note: (mainly on Mekong River) (2012)
Rank: 28

Merchant marine
Total: 442 (2017)
By type: container ship 3, general cargo 328, oil tanker 26, other 85 (2017)
Rank: 43

Ports and terminals
Major seaport: Sihanoukville (Kampong Saom)
River port: Phnom Penh (Mekong)


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Disputes international: Cambodia is concerned about Laos' extensive upstream dam constructionCambodia and Thailand dispute sections of boundaryin 2011 Thailand and Cambodia resorted to arms in the dispute over the location of the boundary on the precipice surmounted by Preah Vihear Temple ruins, awarded to Cambodia by ICJ decision in 1962 and part of a UN World Heritage siteCambodia accuses Vietnam of a wide variety of illicit cross-border activitiesprogress on a joint development area with Vietnam is hampered by an unresolved dispute over sovereignty of offshore islands

Refugees and internally displaced persons

Illicit drugs: narcotics-related corruption reportedly involving some in the government, military, and police; limited methamphetamine production; vulnerable to money laundering due to its cash-based economy and porous borders