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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Anti-Bush demonstrations in Santiago, Chile highlight a new political trend in Latin America - where many countries are moving to the center-left as the United States takes a sharp turn to the right
Latin American journalists greeted the ambitious reforms to the Mercosur trade bloc that Argentine President Néstor Kirchner proposed to Latin American leaders gathered in Asunción on June 18 with a mixture of hope and skepticism. We review comment from Quito, Asunción, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Caracas, and Tegucigalpa.
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.
Progressive presidential candidates who espouse activist government intervention in economic affairs are spearheading an electoral revolution in Latin American politics.
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