id/hazardous waste disposal
Environment - international agreements: party to:
Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources,
Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto
Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental
Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Life
Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical
Timber 94, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban
Uruguay People
Population: 3,360,105 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 24.39% (male 419,932; female 399,605)
15-64 years: 62.61% (male 1,038,785; female 1,064,891)
65 years and over: 13% (male 180,130; female 256,762) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate: 0.78% (2001 est.)
Birth rate: 17.36 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate: 9.03 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate: -0.51 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.98 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.7 male(s)/female
total population: 0.95 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate: 14.7 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 75.44 years
male: 72.11 years
female: 78.96 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate: 2.36 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.33% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 6,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 150 (1999 est.)
Nationality: noun: Uruguayan(s)
adjective: Uruguayan
Ethnic groups: white 88%, mestizo 8%, black 4%, Amerindian,
practically nonexistent
Religions: Roman Catholic 66% (less than one-half of the adult
population attends church regularly), Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%,
nonprofessing or other 31%
Languages: Spanish, Portunol, or Brazilero (Portuguese-Spanish mix
on the Brazilian frontier)
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 97.3%
male: 96.9%
female: 97.7% (1995 est.)
Uruguay Government
Country name: conventional long form: Oriental Republic of Uruguay
conventional short form: Uruguay
local long form: Republica Oriental del Uruguay
local short form: Uruguay
former: Banda Oriental, Cisplatine Province
Government type: constitutional republic
Capital: Montevideo
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