ACOG - El Salvador  - IBM

Geography

Location: Middle America, bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Guatemala and Honduras

Area:
total area: 21,040 sq km
land area: 20,720 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Massachusetts

Land boundaries: total 545 km, Guatemala 203 km, Honduras 342 km

Coastline: 307 km


People

Population: 5,870,481 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 40% (female 1,165,152; male 1,200,759)
15-64 years: 56% (female 1,677,958; male 1,602,230)
65 years and over: 4% (female 122,368; male 102,014)

Population growth rate: 2.02% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 32.39 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 6.19 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -5.96 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 38.9 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 67.5 years
male: 64.89 years
female: 70.23 years

Total fertility rate: 3.69 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: mestizo 94%, Indian 5%, white 1%

Religions: Roman Catholic 75%

Languages: Spanish, Nahua (among some Indians)

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
total population: 73%
male: 76%
female: 70%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of El Salvador
conventional short form: El Salvador

Type: republic

Capital: San Salvador

Independence: 15 September 1821 (from Spain)

Constitution: 20 December 1983


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $9.8 billion

National product real growth rate: 5%

National product per capita: $1,710

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10%

Unemployment rate: 6.7%

Electricity:
capacity: 750,000 kW
production: 2.4 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 408 kWh



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