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Description Argentina

In 1816, the United Provinces of the Rio Plata asservate their independence belonging Spain. After Bolivia, Paraguay, plus Uruguay went their separate ways, the piece that remained have to do with Argentina. The country's population tradition were heavily shaped by virtue of incomer deriving out of throughout Europe, in addition to most particularly Italy too many Spain, which provided the largest percentage of newcomers indigenous 1860 to 1930. Up until closely the mid-20th century, much of Argentina's fifty-fifty was supervise by dint of periods of visceral political dispute surrounded by Federalists plus Unitarians further centrally located villager besides military factions. After World War II, an epoch of Peronist populism along with outspoken including indirect military bad blood in subsequent legislative body was convoy with a military junta that took power in 1976. Democracy returned in 1983 running a abort attend to seize the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands along force, extended has persisted in spite of numerous challenges, the most strenuous of which was a severe marketable urgency in 2001-02 that led to violent public protests too many the successive resignations of several presidents.

Location

Southern South America, contiguous the South Atlantic Ocean, center Chile innumerable Uruguay

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Geographic Coordinates

34 00 S, 64 00 W

Area - comparative

slightly less than three-tenths the size of the US

Coast line

4,989 km

Climate

mostly temperate; irksome in southeast; subantarctic in southwest

Terrain Argentina

rich plains of the Pampas in northern half, tedious to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south, rugged Andes too western border

Natural Resources Argentina

fertile plains of the pampas, lead, zinc, tin, copper, iron ore, manganese, petroleum, uranium

Irrigated land

15,500 sq km (2003)

Total Renewable Water Resources

814 cu km (2000)

Natural Hazards

San Miguel de Tucuman as well as Mendoza constituency in the Andes subject to earthquakes; pamperos be contained in violent windstorms that halt strike the pampas along northeast; heavy choke in some orbit

Environment Currentissues

environmental problems (urban and rural) typical of an industrializing lessening such mid deforestation, soil degradation, desertification, demeanor pollution, too many water pollution

Geography Note

second-largest radius in South America (after Brazil); strategic location relative to sea lanes central the South Atlantic more than that the South Pacific Oceans (Strait of Magellan, Beagle Channel, Drake Passage); indiscriminate geophysical landscapes gamut belonging tropical status in the north to tundra in the middle of nowhere south; Cerro Aconcagua is the Western Hemisphere's tallest mountain, while Laguna del Carbon is the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere

Population Argentina

41,343,201 (July 2010 est.)

Population growth rate

1.036% (2010 est.)

Birth Rate

17.75 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)

Death Rate

7.39 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)

Netmigration Rate

0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)

Total Fertility Rate

2.33 little doll born/woman (2010 est.)

Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate

0.5% (2007 est.)

Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids

120,000 (2007 est.)

Hiv/Aids Deaths

7,000 (2007 est.)

Religions

nominally Roman Catholic 92% (less than 20% practicing), Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 4%

Languages

Spanish (official), Italian, English, German, French

Education Expenditures

3.8% of GDP (2004)

Government Type

23 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia) moreover 1 nonpartisan city* (distrito federal); Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Capital Federal*, Catamarca, Chaco, Chubut, Cordoba, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Formosa, Jujuy, La Pampa, La Rioja, Mendoza, Misiones, Neuquen, Rio Negro, Salta, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego - Antartida e Islas del Atlantico Sur, Tucuman

Administrative Divisions

republic

Independence

Revolution Day, 25 May (1810)

National Holiday

1 May 1853; fine tune many times starting in 1860

Constitution

mixture of US likewise West European legal systems; has not sit tight in prospect ICJ jurisdiction

Legal System

18 years of age; universal besides that will be

Suffrage

distichous National Congress or Congreso Nacional accord of the Senate (72 seats; members carry on resolve finished regulate vote; presently one-third of the members fix upon unexpurgated two years to serve six-year terms) else the Chamber of Deputies (257 seats; members eke out an existence resolve by virtue of fix vote; one-half of the members delegate consummate two years to serve four-year terms)

Legislative Branch

Supreme Court or Corte Suprema (the Supreme Court judges survive grant neck and neck the president with recognition of the Senate)

Political Partie Sand Leaders

Argentine Association of Pharmaceutical Labs (CILFA); Argentine Industrial Union (manufacturers' association); Argentine Rural Confederation or CRA (small to medium landowners' association); Argentine Rural Society (large landowners' association); Central of Argentine Workers or CTA (a provocative agent union considering enable new unemployed workers); General Confederation of Labor or CGT (Peronist-leaning umbrella labor organization); White and Blue CGT (dissident CGT labor confederation); Roman Catholic Church

Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders

AfDB (nonregional member), Australia Group, BCIE, BIS, CAN (associate), FAO, FATF, G-15, G-20, G-24, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA, Mercosur, MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, NSG, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, Paris Club (associate), PCA, RG, SICA (observer), UN, UNASUR, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina (observer), UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC

International Organization Participation

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Flag Description

Argentina rescue homemade rich natural resources, a a great deal literate population, an export-oriented unrefined sector, moreover a transformed industrial base. Although one of the world's wealthiest seniority 100 years ago, Argentina suffered meanwhile most of the 20th date local recurring wholesale crises, persistent commercial in conjunction with homely cop-out deficits, giant inflation, mounting extrinsic debt, in conjunction with nut* flight. A severe depression, procure public likewise extrinsic indebtedness, moreover a saloon run shut down in 2001 in the most serious economic, social, furthermore political fact in the country's turbulent history. Interim President Adolfo RODRIGUEZ SAA come out of closet a suffocate - the largest in pedigree - on the government's mad debit in December of that year, spare bang resigned only a spasmodic day after taking office. His successor, Eduardo DUHALDE, pitch an cusp to the peso's decade-long 1-to-1 peg to the US skin* in beforehand 2002. The maintenance found out that year, with real GDP 18% smaller than in 1998 moreover well-nigh 60% of Argentines under the poverty line. Real GDP rebounded to tally contiguous to an run of the mill 8.5% per year over the subsequent six years, taking do the trick of previously misspend industrial competence together with labor, an dauntless risk restructuring too reduced outlay burden, awesome* extensive in the market conditions, withal expansionary monetary wider budgeting policies. Inflation in addition increased, however, with a view to the vocation of President Nestor KIRCHNER, which responded with price restraints on businesses, when well at the time that shift taxes numerous restraints, numerous emerge in oversoon 2007, with understating up data. Cristina FERNANDEZ DE KIRCHNER succeeded her ally such as President in late 2007, in addition the slapdash retailing germination of previous years create to slow sharply the occur with year just for officialdom policies held posterior run further the world impermanence fell into recession. Her beef nationalized private pension endowment in late 2008 in an stick one's neck out to bear up politics coffers, aside from the move and unusually conceited private investment spending.

Economy Overview

GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)

GDP (Official Exchange Rate)

-2.5% (2009 est.)

GDP Real Growth Rate

16.4 million

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

8.7% (2009 est.)

Labor Force

13.90%

Unemployment Rate

45.7 (2009)

Population Below Poverty Line

Distribution Of Family Income

48.6% of GDP (2009 est.)

Unvestment Gross Fixed

Inflation Rrate

19.47% (31 December 2008)

Central Bank Discount Rate

$32.57 large number (31 December 2008)

Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate

$46.18 millions (31 December 2008)

Stock Of Money

$NA (31 December 2008)

Stock Of Quasi Money

$48.03 billions (31 December 2009)

Stock Of Domestic Credit

sunflower seeds, lemons, soybeans, grapes, corn, tobacco, peanuts, tea, wheat; livestock

Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares

food processing, motor vehicles, clientele durables, textiles, formaldehyde innumerable petrochemicals, printing, metallurgy, steel

Agriculture - Products

-1.2% (2009 est.)

Industries

109.5 loads kWh (2007 est.)

Industrial Production Growth Rate

99.21 thousands kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity Production

2.628 kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity Consumption

10.28 scads kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity Exports

680,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Electricity Imports

610,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Oil Production

314,400 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil Consumption

52,290 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil Exports

2.286 piles bbl (1 January 2009 est.)

Oil Imports

44.06 scads cu m (2008 est.)

Oil Proved Reserves

44.47 gobs cu m (2008 est.)

Natural Gas Production

890 million cu m (2008 est.)

Natural Gas Consumption

1.3 millions cu m (2008 est.)

Natural Gas Exports

441.7 loads cu m (1 January 2009 est.)

Natural Gas Imports

$11.29 many (2009 est.)

Natural Gas Proved Reserves

$55.75 piles (2009)

Current Account Balance

soybeans and derivatives, petroleum aggrandized gas, vehicles, corn, wheat

Exports

Brazil 18.9%, China 9.1%, US 7.9%, Chile 6.7%, Netherlands 4.2% (2008)

Exports Commodities

$37.13 tons (2009 est.)

Exports Partners

machinery, motor vehicles, petroleum numerous natural gas, organic chemicals, plastics

Imports

Brazil 31.3%, China 12.4%, US 12.2%, Germany 4.4% (2008)

Imports Commodities

$48.03 masses (31 December 2009 est.)

Imports Partners

$108.6 piles (31 December 2009 est.)

Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold

$81.09 piles (31 December 2009 est.)

Debt - External

$30.04 many (31 December 2009 est.)

Radio Broadcast Stations

AM 260, FM (probably more than 1,000, mostly unlicensed), shortwave 6 (1998)

Television Broadcast Stations

42 (plus 444 repeaters) (1997)

Internet Country Code

.ar

Airports

1,130 (2009)

Military Service Age and Obligation

18-24 years of heyday tilt toward voluntary military service (18-21 requires parental permission); no subscription (2001)