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Geography

Location: Southwestern Europe, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Spain

Area:
total area: 92,080 sq km
land area: 91,640 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Indiana

Land boundaries: total 1,214 km, Spain 1,214 km

Coastline: 1,793 km


People

Population: 10,562,388 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 18% (female 943,412; male 1,000,971)
15-64 years: 68% (female 3,625,086; male 3,499,176)
65 years and over: 14% (female 889,142; male 604,601)

Population growth rate: 0.36% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 11.72 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 9.65 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 1.55 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 9.1 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 75.53 years
male: 72.11 years
female: 79.16 years

Total fertility rate: 1.47 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: homogeneous Mediterranean stock in mainland, Azores, Madeira Islands; citizens of black African descent who immigrated to mainland during decolonizationnumber less than 100,000

Religions: Roman Catholic 97%, Protestant denominations 1%, other 2%

Languages: Portuguese

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
total population: 85%
male: 89%
female: 82%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Portuguese Republic
conventional short form: Portugal

Type: republic

Capital: Lisbon

Independence: 1140 (independent republic proclaimed 5 October 1910)

Constitution: 25 April 1976, revised 30 October 1982 and 1 June 1989


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $107.3 billion

National product real growth rate: 1.4%

National product per capita: $10,190

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6.1%

Unemployment rate: 6.7%

Electricity:
capacity: 8,220,000 kW
production: 29.5 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 2,642 kWh



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