Uruguay 
Facts
Population: 3,460,607 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 23% (male 403,745/female 390,623)
15-64 years: 63.8% (male 1,096,225/female 1,112,568)
65 years and over: 13.2% (male 184,303/female 273,143) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 0.504% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 14.41 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 9.16 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -0.21 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.04 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.034 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.985 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.675 male(s)/female
total population: 0.948 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 12.02 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 13.49 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 10.49 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 75.93 years
male: 72.68 years
female: 79.3 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.97 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.3% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 6,000 (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 500 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Uruguayan(s)
adjective: Uruguayan.
Ethnic groups: white 88%, mestizo 8%, black 4%, Amerindian (practically nonexistent).
Religions: Roman Catholic 66% (less than 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: 98%
male: 97.6%
female: 98.4% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $37.54 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 7% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $10,900 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 9.3%
industry: 33.7%
services: 57% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 1.27 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 14%
industry: 16%
services: 70%.
Population below poverty line: 27.37% of households (2006).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 3.7%
highest 10%: 25.8% (1997).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6.5% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 10.8% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $5.203 billion
expenditures: $5.449 billion; including capital expenditures of $193 million (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: rice, wheat, corn, barley; livestock; fish.
Industries: food processing, electrical machinery, transportation equipment, petroleum products, textiles, chemicals, beverages.
Industrial production growth rate: 12.6% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 8.183 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 9.939 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 19 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 2.348 billion kWh (2004).
Exports: $3.993 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: meat, rice, leather products, wool, fish, dairy products.
Exports - partners: US 23.2%, Brazil 13.5%, Argentina 7.8%, Germany 4.2%, Mexico 4.1% (2005).
Imports: $4.532 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: machinery, chemicals, road vehicles, crude petroleum.
Imports - partners: Brazil 21.3%, Argentina 20.3%, Russia 8%, US 6.7%, Venezuela 6.3%, China 6.2%, Nigeria 5.9% (2005).
Debt - external: $11.4 billion (30 September 2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $NA.
Currency (code): Uruguayan peso (UYU).
Exchange rates: Uruguayan pesos per US dollar - 24.048 (2006), 24.479 (2005), 28.704 (2004), 28.209 (2003), 21.257 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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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