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.
Press
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(Conservative), Madrid
http://www.abc.es/
(financial weekly), Madrid
http://www.actualidad-economica.com
(International news service), Madrid
http://www.efe.es
(Liberal, Catalan language), Barcelona
http://www.avui.com
Blanco y Negro
(Newsmagazine), Madrid
(Financial), Madrid
http://www.cincodias.es
((Catalan-language weekly)), Palma de Mallorca
http://www.diaridebalears.com/
Spain in the News
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World Press Review associate editor Sarah Coleman interviews organizers of a project to stage the ancient Greek antiwar comedy Lysistrata.
In Spain, tension has been mounting between the film industry and the government as prominent Spanish directors and actors voice speak out against a U.S.-led war on Iraq. Mark Brown reports.
The wreck of the Prestige oil tanker and the ensuing ecological disaster have created an uproar in Spain and across Europe. Carmen Font reviews the Spanish press.
When on July 11 a handful of Moroccan frontier guards planted their national flag and a tent on the tiny uninhabited island of Perejil—Leila, in Arabic—tensions between Rabat and Madrid heated up.