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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:31,977,000 325,719,000
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 km²:35.1 33.1
Life expectancy males:70.6 years 76.3 years
Life expectancy females:78.8 years 81.2 years
Birthrate:19.03 ‰ 12.40 ‰
Deathrate:5.61 ‰ 8.40 ‰
Migrationrate:-1.20 % 3.90 %


Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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Political stability:16 73
Civil rights:2 99
Health:47 70
Security:36 62
Climate:59 65
Cost of Living:73 11
Popularity:21 94


Economy

Currency: Bolívar fuerte (1 VEF = 100 Céntimos) US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:8.1 % 4.4 %
Inflation rate:254.95 % 1.26 %
Cost of Living:64.10 % 110.80 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:65.00 % 43.80 %
Average income:11,313 € 51,580 €
Corruption index:18 (very bad) 75 (good)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:426,980 Mio €13.35 M € 17,164,383 M €52.70 M €
Gross national product:347,813 Mio €10.88 M € 16,801,150 M €51.58 M €
Exported goods:25,391 M €0.79 M € 2,063,911 M €6.34 M €
Imported goods:22,847 M €0.71 M € 2,567,088 M €7.88 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:96,189 km3.01 km 6,586,610 km20.22 km
Railways:447 km0.01 km 293,564 km0.90 km
Waterways:7,100 km0.22 km 41,009 km0.13 km
Harbours:530.002 3930.001
Airports:4440.014 13,5130.041


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:73.99 bn kWh2.31 m kWh 3,911.00 bn kWh12.01 m kWh
Energy production:114.40 bn kWh3.58 m kWh 4,088.00 bn kWh12.55 m kWh
Energy export:0.00 kWh0.00 kWh 9.70 bn kWh29,764.90 kWh
Energy imports:0.00 kWh0.00 kWh 80.66 bn kWh247,636.63 kWh
CO2 emissions:185.22 m t5,792.28 t 5.25 bn t16,131.32 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+58 +1
Internet domain:.ve .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:7,660,417240 121,530,000373
Mobile phones:27,600,893863 395,881,0001,215
Internet server:1,016,00032 505,000,0001,550
Internet users:18,940,907592 246,147,996756



Climate

Detailed info for: Venezuela and United States

Daytime temperatures:31.6 °C 18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:22.4 °C 7.2 °C
Water temperature:28.5 °C 19.1 °C
Relative humidity:76 % 67 %
Absolute humidity:21 g/m³ 9 g/m³
Rain days per year:100.8 85.2
Sunshine hours per day:6.9 7.2


Native languages

Spanish:96.9 % 10.7 %
English:n/a 82.1 %
French:n/a 0.7 %
German:n/a 0.7 %
Chinese: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 %
Warrau:0.1 % n/a
other:2.6 % 3.0 %


Religions

Christianity:98.0 % 78.5 %
Jewry:n/a 1.8 %
Buddhism:n/a 0.7 %
Islam:n/a 0.6 %
other:2.0 % 18.4 %