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Geography

Location: Northern South America, bordering the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, between Colombia and Guyana

Area:
total area: 912,050 sq km
land area: 882,050 sq km
comparative area: slightly more than twice the size of California

Land boundaries: total 4,993 km, Brazil 2,200 km, Colombia 2,050 km, Guyana 743 km

Coastline: 2,800 km


People

Population: 21,004,773 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 35% (female 3,650,705; male 3,795,032)
15-64 years: 60% (female 6,350,466; male 6,313,887)
65 years and over: 5% (female 486,020; male 408,663)

Population growth rate: 2.1% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 25.11 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 4.57 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0.46 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 26.5 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 73.31 years
male: 70.48 years
female: 76.29 years

Total fertility rate: 2.97 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: mestizo 67%, white 21%, black 10%, Amerindian 2%

Religions: nominally Roman Catholic 96%, Protestant 2%

Languages: Spanish (official), native dialects spoken by about 200,000 Amerindiansin the remote interior

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
total population: 90%
male: 91%
female: 89%


Government

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

Type: republic

Capital: Caracas

Independence: 5 July 1811 (from Spain)

Constitution: 23 January 1961


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $178.3 billion

National product real growth rate: -3.3%

National product per capita: $8,670

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 71%

Unemployment rate: 9%

Electricity:
capacity: 18,740,000 kW
production: 72 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 3,311 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The Mother Nature was kind to Olympic athletes and spectators. The average high temperature during the Games was 89 degrees with an average low of 72 degrees. Highest temperature registered (20 July) - 99 degrees. Lowest high temperature registered is 79 degrees (28 July).