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.
Press
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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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Mexico City's conservative El Universal reports on the case of an Imam convicted of encouraging violence against women for a commentary he published on the Quran.
Robert Taylor reports that the Mexican press has recently released a series of explosive investigative reports on a series of murders in the northern Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez.
In an article for Mexico City’s Proceso, Velia Jaramillo reports on former coup-leader Ríos Montt’s loss in the Nov. 9 elections and the efforts to bring him to trial for genocide.
World Press Review editor-in-chief Alice Chasan examines the legacy of Pope John Paul II in the light of universal religious ethics.
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