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Geography

Location: Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean and South Pacific Ocean, between Argentina and Peru

Area:
total area: 756,950 sq km
land area: 748,800 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than twice the size of Montana

Land boundaries: total 6,171 km, Argentina 5,150 km, Bolivia 861 km, Peru 160 km

Coastline: 6,435 km


People

Population: 14,161,216 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 29% (female 2,014,877; male 2,099,450)
15-64 years: 64% (female 4,574,947; male 4,529,251)
65 years and over: 7% (female 549,385; male 393,306)

Population growth rate: 1.49% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 20.29 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 5.42 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 14.3 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 74.88 years
male: 71.89 years
female: 78.01 years

Total fertility rate: 2.49 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: European and European-Indian 95%, Indian 3%, other 2%

Religions: Roman Catholic 89%, Protestant 11%, Jewish

Languages: Spanish

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1992)
total population: 94%
male: 95%
female: 94%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Chile
conventional short form: Chile

Type: republic

Capital: Santiago

Independence: 18 September 1810 (from Spain)

Constitution: 11 September 1980, effective 11 March 1981; amended 30 July 1989


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $97.7 billion

National product real growth rate: 4.3%

National product per capita: $7,010

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 8.7%

Unemployment rate: 6%

Electricity:
capacity: 4,810,000 kW
production: 22 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,499 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.