Chile 
Facts
Population:
15,328,467 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
27.25% (male 2,135,755; female 2,041,552)
15-64 years:
65.39% (male 4,993,416; female 5,029,739)
65 years and over:
7.36% (male 467,477; female 660,528) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.13% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
16.8 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
5.55 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
0.99 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.71 male(s)/female
total population:
0.98 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
9.36 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
75.94 years
male:
72.63 years
female:
79.42 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
2.16 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.19% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
15,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
1,000 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Chilean(s)
adjective:
Chilean
Ethnic groups:
white and white-Amerindian 95%, Amerindian 3%, other 2%
Religions:
Roman Catholic 89%, Protestant 11%, Jewish NEGL%
Languages:
Spanish
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
95.2%
male:
95.4%
female:
95% (1995 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $153.1 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
5.5% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $10,100 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
8%
industry:
38%
services:
54% (2000)
Population below poverty line:
22% (1998 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
1.2%
highest 10%:
41.3% (1998)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
4.5% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
5.8 million (1999 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 14%, industry 27%, services 59% (1997 est.)
Unemployment rate:
9% (December 2000)
Budget:
revenues:
$16 billion
expenditures:
$17 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries:
copper, other minerals, foodstuffs, fish processing, iron and steel, wood and wood products, transport equipment, cement, textiles
Industrial production growth rate:
6% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:
38.092 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
61%
hydro:
35%
nuclear:
0%
other:
4% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
35.426 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
wheat, corn, grapes, beans, sugar beets, potatoes, fruit; beef, poultry, wool; fish; timber
Exports:
$18 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:
copper, fish, fruits, paper and pulp, chemicals
Exports - partners:
EU 27%, US 16%, Japan 14%, Brazil 6%, Argentina 5% (1998)
Imports:
$17 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Imports - commodities:
consumer goods, chemicals, motor vehicles, fuels, electrical machinery, heavy industrial machinery, food
Imports - partners:
US 24%, EU 23%, Argentina 11%, Brazil 6%, Japan 6%, Mexico 5% (1998)
Debt - external:
$39 billion (2000)
Economic aid - recipient:
ODA, $40 million (2001 est.)
Currency:
Chilean peso (CLP)
Currency code:
CLP
Exchange rates:
Chilean pesos per US dollar - 571.12 (January 2001), 535.47 (2000), 508.78 (1999), 460.29 (1998), 419.30 (1997), 412.27 (1996)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
Press
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(Independent), Santiago
http://www.elmostrador.cl/
(Biweekly magazine), Santiago
www.elperiodista.cl
El Siglo
(Communist Party weekly), Santiago
(Conservative), Concepción
http://www.elsur.cl/
Ercilla
(Conservative newsmagazine), Santiago
Estrategia
(Business-oriented), Santiago
(Liberal), Valparaiso
http://www.granvalparaiso.cl/
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Mapuche political leaders are taking the logic of land reform one step further and demanding regional autonomy for Wallmapu, as Mapudungun speakers call the Araucanía.
Eighteen years after the end of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, cases of police abuse—far from being an issue of the past—appear to be on the rise in Chile.
If allowed to stand, the decision will set a potentially disastrous precedent, opening the floodgates for development in all of Chile's national parks and other protected areas.
Home to the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, the largest in the world outside of Antarctica and Greenland, the remote region of Aysén also boasts one of Chile's most powerful rivers, the Pascua.
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