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Geography

Location: Middle America, bordering the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico,between Belize and the US and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, betweenGuatamala and the US

Area:
total area: 1,972,550 sq km
land area: 1,923,040 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than three times the size of Texas

Land boundaries: total 4,538 km, Belize 250 km, Guatemala 962 km, US 3,326 km

Coastline: 9,330 km


People

Population: 93,985,848 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 37% (female 17,028,091; male 17,631,110)
15-64 years: 59% (female 28,429,663; male 26,866,886)
65 years and over: 4% (female 2,184,998; male 1,845,100)

Population growth rate: 1.9% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 26.64 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 4.64 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -3.03 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 26 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 73.34 years
male: 69.74 years
female: 77.11 years

Total fertility rate: 3.09 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: mestizo (Indian-Spanish) 60%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian30%, Caucasian or predominantly Caucasian 9%, other 1%

Religions: nominally Roman Catholic 89%, Protestant 6%

Languages: Spanish, various Mayan dialects

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
total population: 88%
male: 90%
female: 85%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: United Mexican States
conventional short form: Mexico

Type: federal republic operating under a centralized government

Capital: Mexico

Independence: 16 September 1810 (from Spain)

Constitution: 5 February 1917


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $728.7 billion

National product real growth rate: 3.5%

National product per capita: $7,900

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 7.1%

Unemployment rate: 9.8%

Electricity:
capacity: 28,780,000 kW
production: 122 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,239 kWh



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