[speaker001:] What 's the area of your country?
[speaker002:] It 's not very big. It 's a little over half a million square kilometers.
[speaker001:] That sounds quite big! How many people live there?
[speaker002:] There are about 30 million people in my country. Most of them live in the north.
[speaker001:] What 's the average income?
[speaker002:] That 's the really hard to say. I think most people earn about two thousand dollars a month, if you convert the money from our currency into dollars.
[speaker001:] So your country is fairly rich.
[speaker002:] I think we are richer than most countries, but not as rich as countries in western Europe. Our biggest problem at the moment is unemployment, which is roughly 8 %. It has doubled over the last four years.
[speaker001:] Unemployment in my country is a fraction of that.