Names: conventional long form: Kingdom of Swaziland conventional short form: Swaziland local long form: Umbuso weSwatini local short form: eSwatini

Capital City: Mbabane

Population: 1,136,334 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2006 est.)

GDP Per Capita: $5,200 (2006 est.)

Currency: lilangeni (SZL)

Languages: English (official, government business conducted in English), siSwati (official)

Total Area: total: 17,363 sq km land: 17,203 sq km water: 160 sq km slightly smaller than New Jersey

Region: Africa

Industries: mining (coal, raw asbestos), wood pulp, sugar, soft drink concentrates, textile and apparel

Agriculture: sugarcane, cotton, corn, tobacco, rice, citrus, pineapples, sorghum, peanuts; cattle, goats, sheep

Resources: asbestos, coal, clay, cassiterite, hydropower, forests, small gold and diamond deposits, quarry stone, and talc

Labor Force: 155,700 (2003)
agriculture: NA% industry: NA% services: NA%

Exports: $2.201 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
soft drink concentrates, sugar, wood pulp, cotton yarn, refrigerators, citrus and canned fruit

Imports: $2.274 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
motor vehicles, machinery, transport equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products, chemicals

Overview: In this small, landlocked economy, subsistence agriculture occupies more than 80% of the population. The manufacturing sector has diversified since the mid-1980s. Sugar and wood pulp remain important foreign exchange earners. Mining has declined in importance in recent years with only coal and quarry stone mines remaining active. Surrounded by South Africa, except for a short border with Mozambique, Swaziland is heavily dependent on South Africa from which it receives more than nine-tenths of its imports and to which it sends 60% of its exports. Customs duties from the Southern African Customs Union and worker remittances from South Africa substantially supplement domestically earned income. The government is trying to improve the atmosphere for foreign investment. Overgrazing, soil depletion, drought, and sometimes floods persist as problems for the future. More than one-fourth of the population needed emergency food aid in 2004-05 because of drought, and nearly two-fifths of the adult population has been infected by HIV/AIDS.

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In 2007 Missouri exported $9,494 in goods to Swaziland. This ranks Swaziland 192^nd among the 223 international buyers of Missouri goods. Missouri exports to Swaziland increased from the previous year by $820 a change of 9.45%. State exports to Swaziland have increased over the last 5 years by $1,973 a change of 26.23%. Missouri exports account for .00%. of all 2007 US exports to Swaziland.