ACOG - Puerto Rico  - IBM

Geography

Location: Caribbean, island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of the Dominican Republic

Area:
total area: 9,104 sq km
land area: 8,959 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than three times the size of Rhode Island

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 501 km


People

Population: 3,812,569 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 25% (female 466,596; male 489,127)
15-64 years: 65% (female 1,274,765; male 1,195,785)
65 years and over: 10% (female 213,716; male 172,580)

Population growth rate: 0.16% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 15.92 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 7.47 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -6.81 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 12.8 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 75.1 years
male: 70.78 years
female: 79.66 years

Total fertility rate: 1.98 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Hispanic

Religions: Roman Catholic 85%, Protestant denominations and other 15%

Languages: Spanish, English

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1980)
total population: 89%
male: 90%
female: 88%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
conventional short form: Puerto Rico

Type: commonwealth associated with the US

Capital: San Juan

Independence: none (commonwealth associated with the US)

Constitution: ratified 3 March 1952; approved by US Congress 3 July 1952; effective25 July 1952


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $26.8 billion

National product real growth rate: 2.6%

National product per capita: $7,050

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.9%

Unemployment rate: 16%

Electricity:
capacity: 4.230,000 kW
production: 15.6 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 3,819 kWh



Olympic Factoid
An estimated 5.3 million visted Centennial Olympic Park between opening day - 13 July - and closing day - 4 August, making the park the most single most visited Olympic site during the Games.