Argentina 
Facts
Population: 40,301,927 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 24.9% (male 5,134,958/female 4,905,181)
15-64 years: 64.4% (male 12,979,588/female 12,967,507)
65 years and over: 10.7% (male 1,769,593/female 2,545,100) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 0.938% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 16.53 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 7.55 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 0.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.047 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.001 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.695 male(s)/female
total population: 0.974 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 14.29 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 16.11 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 12.38 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 76.32 years
male: 72.6 years
female: 80.24 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 2.13 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.7% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 130,000 (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 1,500 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Argentine(s)
adjective: Argentine.
Ethnic groups: white (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry), Amerindian, or other non-white groups 3%.
Religions: nominally Roman Catholic 92% (less than 20% practicing), Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 4%.
Languages: Spanish (official), English, Italian, German, French.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 97.2%
male: 97.2%
female: 97.2% (2001 census).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $608.8 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 8.5% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $15,200 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 9.5%
industry: 35.8%
services: 54.7% (2005 est.).
Labor force: 15.35 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: NA%
industry: NA%
services: NA%.
Population below poverty line: 26.9% (July-December 2006).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1%
highest 10%: 35% (June 2006).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 9.8% (2006).
Unemployment rate: 8.7% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $52.1 billion
expenditures: $47.6 billion; including capital expenditures of $5.4 billion (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: sunflower seeds, lemons, soybeans, grapes, corn, tobacco, peanuts, tea, wheat; livestock.
Industries: food processing, motor vehicles, consumer durables, textiles, chemicals and petrochemicals, printing, metallurgy, steel.
Industrial production growth rate: 8.2% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 93.94 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 90.93 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 4.143 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 7.7 billion kWh (2004).
Exports: $46.6 billion f.o.b. (2006).
Exports - commodities: edible oils, fuels and energy, cereals, feed, motor vehicles.
Exports - partners: Brazil 15.8%, US 11.4%, Chile 11.2%, China 7.9% (2005).
Imports: $31.69 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, motor vehicles, chemicals, metal manufactures, plastics.
Imports - partners: Brazil 35.9%, US 14.1%, China 7.8%, Germany 4.5% (2005).
Debt - external: $109 billion (30 December 2006).
Economic aid - recipient: $0 (2002).
Currency (code): Argentine peso (ARS).
Exchange rates: Argentine pesos per US dollar - 3.0543 (2006), 2.9037 (2005), 2.9233 (2004), 2.9006 (2003), 3.0633 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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Though presidential elections may be held in Argentina by the end of this year, the electorate and leading candidates fear that little will change in the increasingly impoverished nation.
Buenos Aires correspondent Alfred S. Hopkins on reports that former President Carlos Menem maintained secret accounts for bribes to cover up information about a series of terrorist attacks in the 1990s.
María Adela Gard de Antokoletz, founder of the Argentine Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo, has died. Tekla Szymanski reviews the Argentine press coverage.
After its marked failure in the Asian crisis of 1998, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is under scrutiny by the world financial community for not heeding the warnings about the possibility that the Argentine crisis would infect the economies of the region.
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