ACOG - Uruguay  - IBM

Geography

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

Area:
total area: 176,220 sq km
land area: 173,620 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Washington State

Land boundaries: total 1,564 km, Argentina 579 km, Brazil 985 km

Coastline: 660 km


People

Population: 3,222,716 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 25% (female 392,262; male 409,580)
15-64 years: 63% (female 1,026,314; male 995,492)
65 years and over: 12% (female 233,377; male 165,691)

Population growth rate: 0.74% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 17.57 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 9.27 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -0.93 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 16.3 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 74.46 years
male: 71.24 years
female: 77.83 years

Total fertility rate: 2.41 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: white 88%, mestizo 8%, black 4%

Religions: Roman Catholic 66% (less than half adult population attends church regularly), Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, nonprofessing or other 30%

Languages: Spanish, Brazilero (Portuguese-Spanish mix on the Brazilian frontier)

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
total population: 96%
male: 97%
female: 96%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Oriental Republic of Uruguay
conventional short form: Uruguay

Type: republic

Capital: Montevideo

Independence: 25 August 1828 (from Brazil)

Constitution: 27 November 1966, effective February 1967, suspended 27 June 1973,new constitution rejected by referendum 30 November 1980


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $23 billion

National product real growth rate: 4%

National product per capita: $7,200

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 44%

Unemployment rate: 9%

Electricity:
capacity: 2,070,000 kW
production: 9 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,575 kWh



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