Spain 
Facts
Population: 40,448,191 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 14.4% (male 3,005,818/female 2,826,805)
15-64 years: 67.8% (male 13,758,869/female 13,661,295)
65 years and over: 17.8% (male 3,002,585/female 4,192,819) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 0.116% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 9.98 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 9.81 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 0.99 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.063 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.007 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.716 male(s)/female
total population: 0.956 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 4.31 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 4.7 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 3.9 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 79.78 years
male: 76.46 years
female: 83.32 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.29 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.7% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 140,000 (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 1,000 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Spaniard(s)
adjective: Spanish.
Ethnic groups: composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types.
Religions: Roman Catholic 94%, other 6%.
Languages: Castilian Spanish (official) 74%, Catalan 17%, Galician 7%, Basque 2%, are official regionally.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 97.9%
male: 98.7%
female: 97.2% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $1.109 trillion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 3.9% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $27,400 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 3.9%
industry: 29.4%
services: 66.7% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 21.77 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 5.3%
industry: 30.1%
services: 64.6% (2004 est.).
Population below poverty line: 19.8% (2005).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.8%
highest 10%: 25.2% (1990).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.5% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 8.1% (October 2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $488.2 billion
expenditures: $475.3 billion; including capital expenditures of $12.8 billion (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: grain, vegetables, olives, wine grapes, sugar beets, citrus; beef, pork, poultry, dairy products; fish.
Industries: textiles and apparel (including footwear), food and beverages, metals and metal manufactures, chemicals, shipbuilding, automobiles, machine tools, tourism, clay and refractory products, footwear, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment.
Industrial production growth rate: 0.6% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 263.3 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 241.8 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 11.4 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 8.3 billion kWh (2004).
Exports: $222.1 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: machinery, motor vehicles; foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, medicines, other consumer goods.
Exports - partners: France 19.3%, Germany 11.4%, Portugal 9.6%, UK 8.4%, Italy 8.4%, US 4.1% (2005).
Imports: $324.4 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, fuels, chemicals, semifinished goods, foodstuffs, consumer goods, measuring and medical control instruments.
Imports - partners: Germany 15.3%, France 14.7%, Italy 8.6%, UK 5.8%, Netherlands 5%, China 4.2% (2005).
Debt - external: $1.591 trillion (30 June 2006 est.).
Economic aid - donor: ODA, $1.33 billion (1999).
Currency (code): euro (EUR)
note: on 1 January 1999, the European Monetary Union introduced the euro as a common currency to be used by the financial institutions of member countries; on 1 January 2002, the euro became the sole currency for everyday transactions with the member countries.
Exchange rates: euros per US dollar - 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004), 0.886 (2003), 1.0626 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
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(Conservative), Madrid
http://www.abc.es/
(financial weekly), Madrid
http://www.actualidad-economica.com
(International news service), Madrid
http://www.efe.es
(Liberal, Catalan language), Barcelona
http://www.avui.com
Blanco y Negro
(Newsmagazine), Madrid
(Financial), Madrid
http://www.cincodias.es
((Catalan-language weekly)), Palma de Mallorca
http://www.diaridebalears.com/
Spain in the News
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The bombings in Casablanca on May 16, 2003, and in Madrid last March 11, were both carried out almost entirely by Moroccan men. This fact is hard to swallow in a country that prides itself on its tolerant Islamic traditions and actively promotes itself as something of an exception within the Arab world.
Analysis indicates Iraq policy has cost British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi heavily at the ballot box.
'The impression—implicit or explicit—that a democratic nation such as ours is giving in to terrorist attacks would be as unjust as it would be devastating,' Barcelona's La Vanguardia argues in an editorial.
In an article for El País, Juan Luís Cebrián reflects on the terrorist attacks in Madrid and their effects on the Spanish elections.
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