Spain 
Facts
Population:
40,037,995 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
14.62% (male 3,015,851; female 2,835,763)
15-64 years:
68.2% (male 13,701,065; female 13,605,314)
65 years and over:
17.18% (male 2,881,334; female 3,998,668) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.1% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
9.26 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
9.13 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
0.87 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1.01 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.72 male(s)/female
total population:
0.96 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
4.92 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
78.93 years
male:
75.47 years
female:
82.62 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.15 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.58% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
120,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
2,000 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Spaniard(s)
adjective:
Spanish
Ethnic groups:
composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types
Religions:
Roman Catholic 99%, other 1%
Languages:
Castilian Spanish (official) 74%, Catalan 17%, Galician 7%, Basque 2%
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
97%
male:
NA%
female:
NA%
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $720.8 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
4% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $18,000 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
4%
industry:
31%
services:
65% (1999)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
2.8%
highest 10%:
25.2% (1990)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
3.4% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
17 million (2000)
Labor force - by occupation:
services 64%, manufacturing, mining, and construction 28%, agriculture 8% (1997 est.)
Unemployment rate:
14% (2000 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$105 billion
expenditures:
$109 billion, including capital expenditures of $12.8 billion (2000 est.)
Industries:
textiles and apparel (including footwear), food and beverages, metals and metal manufactures, chemicals, shipbuilding, automobiles, machine tools, tourism
Industrial production growth rate:
4.5% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:
197.694 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
57.71%
hydro:
12.1%
nuclear:
28.28%
other:
1.91% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
189.57 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
6.23 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
11.945 billion kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
grain, vegetables, olives, wine grapes, sugar beets, citrus; beef, pork, poultry, dairy products; fish
Exports:
$120.5 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
machinery, motor vehicles; foodstuffs, other consumer goods
Exports - partners:
EU 71% (France 20%, Germany 12%, Italy 9%, Portugal 9%, UK 8%), Latin America 6%, US 5% (2000)
Imports:
$153.9 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, fuels, chemicals, semifinished goods; foodstuffs, consumer goods (1997)
Imports - partners:
EU 68% (France 18%, Germany 16%, Italy 9%, UK 7%, Benelux 8%), US 8%, OPEC 5%, Latin America 4%, Japan 3% (1999)
Debt - external:
$90 billion (1993 est.)
Economic aid - donor:
ODA, $1.3 billion (1995)
Currency:
Spanish peseta (ESP); euro (EUR)
note:
on 1 January 1999, the EU introduced the euro as a common currency that is now being used by financial institutions in Spain at a fixed rate of 166.386 Spanish pesetas per euro and will replace the local currency for all transactions in 2002
Currency code:
ESP; EUR
Exchange rates:
euros per US dollar - 1.0659 (January 2001), 1.0854 (2000), 0.9386 (1999); pesetas per US dollar - 149.40 (1998), 146.41 (1997), 126.66 (1996)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
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