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Geography

Location: Southwestern Europe, bordering the Bay of Biscay, Mediterranean Sea,and North Atlantic Ocean, southwest of France

Area:
total area: 504,750 sq km
land area: 499,400 sq km
comparative area: slightly more than twice the size of Oregon

Land boundaries: total 1,903.2 km, Andorra 65 km, France 623 km, Gibraltar 1.2 km, Portugal 1,214 km

Coastline: 4,964 km


People

Population: 39,404,348 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 17% (female 3,214,606; male 3,446,643)
15-64 years: 68% (female 13,377,839; male 13,457,683)
65 years and over: 15% (female 3,461,367; male 2,446,210)

Population growth rate: 0.27% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 11.21 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 8.86 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0.31 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 6.7 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 77.91 years
male: 74.67 years
female: 81.39 years

Total fertility rate: 1.41 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types

Religions: Roman Catholic 99%, other sects 1%

Languages: Castilian Spanish, Catalan 17%, Galician 7%, Basque 2%

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1986)
total population: 96%
male: 98%
female: 94%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Kingdom of Spain
conventional short form: Spain

Type: parliamentary monarchy

Capital: Madrid

Independence: 1492 (expulsion of the Moors and unification)

Constitution: 6 December 1978, effective 29 December 1978


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $515.8 billion

National product real growth rate: 1.8%

National product per capita: $13,120

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.9%

Unemployment rate: 24.5%

Electricity:
capacity: 43,800,000 kW
production: 148 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 3,545 kWh



Olympic Factoid
More tickets were sold to the competitions of the 1996 Games than to any other Olympic Games or sports event in history. The 8.6 million ticket sales figures topped sales to the Los Angeles and Barcelona Games combined.