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Geography

Location: Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Chile and Uruguay

Area:
total area: 2,766,890 sq km
land area: 2,736,690 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than three-tenths the size of the US

Land boundaries: total 9,665 km, Bolivia 832 km, Brazil 1,224 km, Chile 5,150 km, Paraguay 1,880 km, Uruguay 579 km

Coastline: 4,989 km


People

Population: 34,292,742 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 28% (female 4,706,793; male 4,903,589)
15-64 years: 62% (female 10,680,074; male 10,689,728)
65 years and over: 10% (female 1,922,552; male 1,390,006)

Population growth rate: 1.11% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 19.51 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 8.62 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0.19 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 28.8 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 71.51 years
male: 68.22 years
female: 74.97 years

Total fertility rate: 2.65 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: white 85%, mestizo, Indian, or other nonwhite groups 15%

Religions: nominally Roman Catholic 90% (less than 20% practicing), Protestant2%, Jewish 2%, other 6%

Languages: Spanish (official), English, Italian, German, French

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
total population: 95%
male: 96%
female: 95%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Argentine Republic
conventional short form: Argentina

Type: republic

Capital: Buenos Aires

Independence: 9 July 1816 (from Spain)

Constitution: 1 May 1853; revised August 1994


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $270.8 billion

National product real growth rate: 6%

National product per capita: $7,990

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.9%

Unemployment rate: 12%

Electricity:
capacity: 17,330,000 kW
production: 54.8 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,610 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The volunteer staff of the 1996 Olympic Games totaled 50,152. They worked an estimated 850,000 shifts.