ACOG - Aruba  - IBM

Geography

Location: Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, north of Venezuela

Area:
total area: 193 sq km
land area: 193 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than Washington, DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 68.5 km


People

Population: 65,974 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 23% (female 7,377; male 7,726)
15-64 years: 69% (female 24,269; male 21,141)
65 years and over: 8% (female 3,223; male 2,238)

Population growth rate: 0.65% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 14.6 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 6.17 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -1.91 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 8.3 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 76.56 years
male: 72.89 years
female: 80.42 years

Total fertility rate: 1.82 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: mixed European/Caribbean Indian 80%

Religions: Roman Catholic 82%, Protestant 8%, Hindu, Muslim, Confucian, Jewish

Languages: Dutch (official), Papiamento (a Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English dialect), English (widely spoken), Spanish

Literacy: NA%
total population:
male:
female:


Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Aruba

Type: part of the Dutch realm; full autonomy in internal affairs obtainedin 1986 upon separation from the Netherlands Antilles

Capital: Oranjestad

Independence: none (part of the Dutch realm; in 1990, Aruba requested and receivedfrom the Netherlands cancellation of the agreement to automatically give independence to the island in 1996)

Constitution: 1 January 1986


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $1.1 billion

National product real growth rate: 5%

National product per capita: $17,000

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 7%

Unemployment rate: 0.6%

Electricity:
capacity: 90,000 kW
production: 330 million kWh
consumption per capita: 4,761 kWh



Olympic Factoid
Closing Ceremony of the 1996 Games involved a crew of 2,100 who worked with more than 3,500 performers as well as thousands of athletes who celebrated on the field of Olympic Stadium.