Uruguay 
Facts
Population:
3,360,105 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
24.39% (male 419,932; female 399,605)
15-64 years:
62.61% (male 1,038,785; female 1,064,891)
65 years and over:
13% (male 180,130; female 256,762) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.78% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
17.36 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
9.03 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.51 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
0.98 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.7 male(s)/female
total population:
0.95 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
14.7 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
75.44 years
male:
72.11 years
female:
78.96 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
2.36 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.33% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
6,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
150 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Uruguayan(s)
adjective:
Uruguayan
Ethnic groups:
white 88%, mestizo 8%, black 4%, Amerindian, practically nonexistent
Religions:
Roman Catholic 66% (less than one-half of the adult population attends church regularly), Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, nonprofessing or other 31%
Languages:
Spanish, Portunol, or Brazilero (Portuguese-Spanish mix on the Brazilian frontier)
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
97.3%
male:
96.9%
female:
97.7% (1995 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $31 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
-1.1% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $9,300 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
10%
industry:
28%
services:
62% (1999)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
NA%
highest 10%:
NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
4.8% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
1.5 million (1999 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA%
Unemployment rate:
14% (2000 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$4 billion
expenditures:
$4.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $500 million (2000 est.)
Industries:
food processing, electrical machinery, transportation equipment, petroleum products, textiles, chemicals, beverages
Industrial production growth rate:
-2.1% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:
5.704 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
3.86%
hydro:
95.44%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0.7% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
5.89 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
215 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
800 million kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
wheat, rice, barley, corn, sorghum; livestock; fish
Exports:
$2.6 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
meat, rice, leather products, vehicles, dairy products, wool, electricity
Exports - partners:
MERCOSUR partners 45%, EU 20%, US 7% (1999 est.)
Imports:
$3.4 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
road vehicles, electrical machinery, metal manufactures, heavy industrial machinery, crude petroleum
Imports - partners:
MERCOSUR partners 43%, EU 20%, US 11% (1999 est.)
Debt - external:
$8 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$NA
Currency:
Uruguayan peso (UYU)
Currency code:
UYU
Exchange rates:
Uruguayan pesos per US dollar - 12.5610 (January 2001), 12.0996 (2000), 11.3393 (1999), 10.4719 (1998), 9.4418 (1997), 7.9718 (1996)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
Press
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(Left-wing weekly), Montevideo
http://www.brecha.com.uy/
Búsqueda
(Independent weekly), Montevideo
(Conservative, business-oriented), Montevideo
http://www.observador.com.uy/
(Conservative), Montevideo
http://www.elpais.com.uy/
Juventud
(Left-wing), Montevideo
(left-wing), Montevideo
http://www.diariolarepublica.com/larepublica....
Mate Amargo
(Left-wing), Montevideo
Uruguay in the News
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Now that President George Bush and the 12 war planes that accompanied him on his recent visit to Uruguay have left for perhaps greener pastures, people in all walks of life here are asking themselves what real purpose there was to the brief encounter here with Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez.
Many in Uruguay watch the 9 p.m. news on one of the three privately-owned TV channels, buy a weekly or a foreign publication, and buy El País on Sundays
Telesur, whose slogan is “Our North is the South,” is a Latin America-wide TV network aimed at competing with U.S. and European international news stations, such as the Spanish language CNN En Español, Univisión, or BBC World.
Chilean President Ricardo Lagos noted that countries in the region have yet to advance fully on integrating economic policies, while Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez used the occasion to urge members to pull back from United States-style free market policies.
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