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Venezuela

 

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 Venezuela
All information: Venezuela
 		 United States
All information: United States
 
Area:912,050 km² 9,831,510 km²
Population:28,516,000 328,240,000
Official language:Spanish English

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Government

Government form:Federal presidential republic Federal presidential republic
Independent since:1811 n.Chr. 1776 n.Chr.
Capital:Caracas Washington, D.C.


Population

Inhabitants per km²:31.3 33.4
Life expectancy males:68.4 years 76.1 years
Life expectancy females:76.1 years 81.1 years
Average age:27.0 years 37.4 years
Birthrate:17.88 ‰ 11.60 ‰
Deathrate:6.98 ‰ 8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:-3.40 ‰ 3.00 ‰


Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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Political stability:20 74
Civil rights:3 83
Health:48 74
Climate:57 64
Cost of Living:60 38
Popularity:22 85


Economy

Currency: Bolívar fuerte (1 VEF = 100 Céntimos) US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:9.4 % 3.9 %
Inflation rate:254.95 % 1.81 %
Cost of Living:41.30 % 110.20 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:73.30 % 36.60 %
Average income:11,684 € 58,821 €
Corruption index:16 (very bad) 69 (moderate)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:430,870 Mio €15.11 M € 19,145,356 M €58.33 M €
Gross national product:350,982 Mio €12.31 M € 19,308,457 M €58.82 M €
Exported goods:25,622 M €0.90 M € 2,258,389 M €6.88 M €
Imported goods:23,055 M €0.81 M € 2,773,678 M €8.45 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:96,189 km3.37 km 6,586,610 km20.07 km
Railways:447 km0.02 km 293,564 km0.89 km
Waterways:7,100 km0.25 km 41,009 km0.12 km
Harbours:2890.010 3,6730.011
Airports:4440.016 13,5130.041


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:71.96 bn kWh2.52 m kWh 3,902.00 bn kWh11.89 m kWh
Energy production:109.30 bn kWh3.83 m kWh 4,095.00 bn kWh12.48 m kWh
Energy export:0.00 kWh0.00 kWh 9.70 bn kWh29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:0.00 kWh0.00 kWh 72.72 bn kWh221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:164.18 m t5,757.34 t 5.01 bn t15,251.98 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+58 +1
Internet domain:.ve .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:5,467,044192 107,281,000327
Mobile phones:16,558,617581 422,000,0001,286
Internet server:1,016,00036 505,000,0001,539
Internet users:18,339,489643 290,488,378885



Healthcare system

Hospital beds/1000 inh.:0.80 2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:1.93 2.59
Diabetes sufferers:7.0 % 10.8 %
HIV sufferers:0.33 % 0.22 %
Tuberculosis sufferers:0.5 % 0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:84.0 % 79.0 %

Climate

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Daytime temperatures:31.8 °C 18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:22.6 °C 7.3 °C
Water temperature:28.3 °C 17.7 °C
Relative humidity:76 % 67 %
Absolute humidity:21 g/m³ 9 g/m³
Rain days per year:102 85.2
Sunshine hours per day:6.9 7.2


Native languages

Spanish:96.9 % 10.7 %
English:n/a 82.1 %
Chinese:n/a 0.9 %
French:n/a 0.7 %
German:n/a 0.6 %
Italian:n/a 0.6 %
Tagalog:n/a 0.4 %
Goajiro:0.4 % n/a
Korean:n/a 0.3 %
Polish:n/a 0.3 %
Vietnamese:n/a 0.2 %
Japanese:n/a 0.2 %
Portuguese:n/a 0.2 %
Russian:n/a 0.2 %
Warrau:0.1 % n/a
other:2.6 % 2.6 %


Religions

Christianity:98.0 % 78.5 %
Jewry:n/a 1.8 %
Sikhism:n/a 1.6 %
Islam:n/a 1.1 %
Hinduism:n/a 1.0 %
Buddhism:n/a 0.7 %
other:2.0 % 15.3 %