Venezuela 
Facts
Population: 26,023,528 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 31.6% (male 4,169,979/female 4,046,170)
15-64 years: 63.4% (male 8,120,661/female 8,369,065)
65 years and over: 5.1% (male 586,863/female 730,790) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 1.486% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 21.22 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 5.08 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -1.28 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.031 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.97 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.803 male(s)/female
total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 22.52 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 26.14 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 18.72 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 73.28 years
male: 70.24 years
female: 76.48 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 2.55 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.7%; note - no country specific models provided (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 110,000 (1999 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 4,100 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Venezuelan(s)
adjective: Venezuelan.
Ethnic groups: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arab, German, African, indigenous people.
Religions: nominally Roman Catholic 96%, Protestant 2%, other 2%.
Languages: Spanish (official), numerous indigenous dialects.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 93%
male: 93.3%
female: 92.7% (2001 census).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $186.3 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 10.3% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $7,200 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 3.7%
industry: 41%
services: 55.3% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 12.5 million (November 2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 13%
industry: 23%
services: 64% (1997 est.).
Population below poverty line: 37.9% (end 2005 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 0.8%
highest 10%: 36.5% (1998).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 15.8% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 8.9% (October 2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $52.24 billion
expenditures: $52.9 billion; including capital expenditures of $2.6 billion (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: corn, sorghum, sugarcane, rice, bananas, vegetables, coffee; beef, pork, milk, eggs; fish.
Industries: petroleum, construction materials, food processing, textiles; iron ore mining, steel, aluminum; motor vehicle assembly.
Industrial production growth rate: 7% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 93.03 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 86.52 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).
Exports: $69.23 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: petroleum, bauxite and aluminum, steel, chemicals, agricultural products, basic manufactures.
Exports - partners: US 50.9%, Netherlands Antilles 7.2%, Canada 2.4% (2005).
Imports: $28.81 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: raw materials, machinery and equipment, transport equipment, construction materials.
Imports - partners: US 31.6%, Colombia 11%, Brazil 9.1%, Mexico 6.9% (2005).
Debt - external: $35.63 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $74 million (2000).
Currency (code): bolivar (VEB).
Exchange rates: bolivares per US dollar - 2,147 (2006), 2,089.8 (2005), 1,891.3 (2004), 1,607 (2003), 1,161 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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Shell Oil, together with Esso and Gulf subsidiaries, constructed a deepwater port inside Lake Maracaibo, which can service four tankers at a time. While the port was a great success, Lake Maracaibo has fallen victim to contamination, oil spills, and industrial discharge.
In 2003, waves of political unrest rocked Venezuela, with opposition to President Hugo Chávez’s hard-left policies growing. Now, facing a possible recall referendum in 2004, Chávez appears to have some aces up his sleeve.
World Press Review contributing editor Robert Taylor reviews Venezuelan and Latin American coverage of the confused effort to unseat President Hugo Chávez from office through a recall vote.
Latin American journalists greeted the ambitious reforms to the Mercosur trade bloc that Argentine President Néstor Kirchner proposed to Latin American leaders gathered in Asunción on June 18 with a mixture of hope and skepticism. We review comment from Quito, Asunción, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Caracas, and Tegucigalpa.
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