United States of America 
Facts
Population: 301,139,947 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 20.2% (male 31,152,050/female 29,777,438)
15-64 years: 67.2% (male 100,995,752/female 101,365,035)
65 years and over: 12.6% (male 15,858,477/female 21,991,195) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 0.894% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 14.16 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 8.26 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 3.05 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.046 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.996 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.721 male(s)/female
total population: 0.967 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 6.37 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 7.02 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 5.68 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 78 years
male: 75.15 years
female: 80.97 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 2.09 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.6% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 950,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 17,011 (2005 est.).
Nationality: noun: American(s)
adjective: American.
Ethnic groups: white 81.7%, black 12.9%, Asian 4.2%, Amerindian and Alaska native 1%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.2% (2003 est.)
note: a separate listing for Hispanic is not included because the US Census Bureau considers Hispanic to mean a person of Latin American descent (including persons of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin) living in the US who may be of any race or ethnic group (white, black, Asian, etc.).
Religions: Protestant 52%, Roman Catholic 24%, Mormon 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 1%, other 10%, none 10% (2002 est.).
Languages: English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% (2000 census)
note: Hawaiian is an official language in the state of Hawaii.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $13.13 trillion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 3.2% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $44,000 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 0.9%
industry: 20.4%
services: 78.6% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 151.4 million (includes unemployed) (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: farming, forestry, and fishing 0.7%, manufacturing, extraction, transportation, and crafts 22.9%, managerial, professional, and technical 34.9%, sales and office 25%, other services 16.5%
note: figures exclude the unemployed (2006).
Population below poverty line: 12% (2004 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.8%
highest 10%: 30.5% (1997).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.5% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 4.8% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $2.409 trillion
expenditures: $2.66 trillion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: wheat, corn, other grains, fruits, vegetables, cotton; beef, pork, poultry, dairy products; fish; forest products.
Industries: leading industrial power in the world, highly diversified and technologically advanced; petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, electronics, food processing, consumer goods, lumber, mining.
Industrial production growth rate: 4.2% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 3.979 trillion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 3.717 trillion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 22.9 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 34.21 billion kWh (2004).
Exports: $1.024 trillion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: agricultural products (soybeans, fruit, corn) 9.2%, industrial supplies (organic chemicals) 26.8%, capital goods (transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment) 49.0%, consumer goods (automobiles, medicines) 15.0% (2003).
Exports - partners: Canada 23.4%, Mexico 13.3%, Japan 6.1%, China 4.6%, UK 4.3% (2005).
Imports: $1.869 trillion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: agricultural products 4.9%, industrial supplies 32.9% (crude oil 8.2%), capital goods 30.4% (computers, telecommunications equipment, motor vehicle parts, office machines, electric power machinery), consumer goods 31.8% (automobiles, clothing, medicines, furniture, toys) (2003).
Imports - partners: Canada 16.9%, China 15%, Mexico 10%, Japan 8.2%, Germany 5% (2005).
Debt - external: $10.04 trillion (30 June 2006 est.).
Economic aid - donor: ODA, $6.9 billion (1997).
Currency (code): US dollar (USD).
Exchange rates: British pounds per US dollar - 0.5418 (2006), 0.5500 (2005), 0.5462 (2004), 0.6125 (2003), 0.6672 (2002)
: Canadian dollars per US dollar - 1.1334 (2006), 1.2118 (2005), 1.3010 (2004), 1.4011 (2003), 1.5693 (2002)
: Japanese yen per US dollar - 116.18 (2006) 110.22 (2005), 108.19 (2004), 115.93 (2003), 125.39 (2002)
: euros per US dollar - .7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004), 0.8860 (2003), 1.0626 (2002)
: Chinese yuan per US dollar - 7.97 (2006), 8.1943 (2005), 8.2768 (2004), 8.2770 (2003), 8.2770 (2002).
Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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Millions of people have come to this country to work, not to break its laws. Some have come with visas, and others without them. But they are all contributors to the society they've found here.
Critics say a system that obliges many of the nation's 18 million college students to vote from afar is inaccurate, insecure, and just plain annoying.
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The end of the housing boom has signaled a bust in construction jobs, a field in which about 28 percent of workers are foreign-born, according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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