Mexico 
Facts
Population: 108,700,891 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 30.1% (male 16,696,089/female 16,011,563)
15-64 years: 64% (male 33,624,812/female 35,925,372)
65 years and over: 5.9% (male 2,917,563/female 3,525,492) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 1.153% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 20.36 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 4.76 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -4.08 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.043 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.936 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.828 male(s)/female
total population: 0.96 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 19.63 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 21.54 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 17.62 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 75.63 years
male: 72.84 years
female: 78.56 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 2.39 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.3% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 160,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 5,000 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Mexican(s)
adjective: Mexican.
Ethnic groups: mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%, white 9%, other 1%.
Religions: Roman Catholic 76.5%, Protestant 6.3% (Pentecostal 1.4%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.1%, other 3.8%), other 0.3%, unspecified 13.8%, none 3.1% (2000 census).
Languages: Spanish, various Mayan, Nahuatl, and other regional indigenous languages.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 91%
male: 92.4%
female: 89.6% (2004 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $1.149 trillion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 4.8% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $10,700 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 3.9%
industry: 25.7%
services: 70.5% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 38.09 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 18%
industry: 24%
services: 58% (2003).
Population below poverty line: 40% (2003 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.6%
highest 10%: 35.6% (2002).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.4% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 3.2% plus underemployment of perhaps 25% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $196.5 billion
expenditures: $196.2 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: corn, wheat, soybeans, rice, beans, cotton, coffee, fruit, tomatoes; beef, poultry, dairy products; wood products.
Industries: food and beverages, tobacco, chemicals, iron and steel, petroleum, mining, textiles, clothing, motor vehicles, consumer durables, tourism.
Industrial production growth rate: 3.6% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 242.4 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 224.6 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 1.203 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 416 million kWh (2004).
Exports: $248.8 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: manufactured goods, oil and oil products, silver, fruits, vegetables, coffee, cotton.
Exports - partners: US 85.7%, Canada 2%, Spain 1.4% (2005).
Imports: $253.1 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: metalworking machines, steel mill products, agricultural machinery, electrical equipment, car parts for assembly, repair parts for motor vehicles, aircraft, and aircraft parts.
Imports - partners: US 53.4%, China 8%, Japan 5.9% (2005).
Debt - external: $178.3 billion (30 June 2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $1.166 billion (1995).
Currency (code): Mexican peso (MXN).
Exchange rates: Mexican pesos per US dollar - 10.899 (2006), 10.898 (2005), 11.286 (2004), 10.789 (2003), 9.656 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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(Independent), Sinaloa
http://www.debate.com.mx/
El Día Latinamericano
(Liberal biweekly), Mexico City
El Diario de Monterrey
(Independent), Monterrey
(Conservative business), Mexico City
http://www.economista.com.mx/
(Independent, business-oriented), Mexico City
http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/
El Financiero Internacional
(Business weekly), Mexico City
El Financiero International
(Business weekly, English version), Mexico City
Mexico in the News
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By orchestrating a pseudo-legal offensive against Mexico City’s popular mayor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Fox has not only dashed the hopes of Mexicans for a real democracy, but has also destroyed the political capital he gained back in 2000.
Felipe Arreaga Sánchez sits in a Zihuatanejo jail cell confronted with what his supporters say is a trumped-up murder charge. A former secretary of the Campesino (Peasant) Environmentalist Organization of Petatlán and Coyuca de Catalán (OCESP), Arreaga was arrested on Nov. 3 by Guerrero State Ministerial Police and charged in the May 1998 murder of 15-year-old Abel Bautista.
For weeks, Mexico has been abuzz with rumors that Marta Sahagún, Mexico's first lady, might run for president in 2006. Here political scientist Denise Dresser, writing for Mexico City’s Reforma, urges her to refrain.
Pablo Marentes, writing for Mexico City's conservative El Universal, compares Mexico after 10 years of NAFTA to Rip van Winkle.
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