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HIV news : 0.3% (2001 est.) Population below poverty line news : 23.7% (2002) . Literacy : 98% House hold income lowest than 10% news : 3,70% House hold income highest than 10% news : 25.8% (1997) Inflation news : 19.4% (2003 est.) . Unemployment Rate news : 16% (2003) . Internet Users news : 400,000 (2002) . Location : Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Argentina and Brazil . Geographic Coordinates : 33 00 S, 56 00 W . Religion Uruguay news : Roman Catholic 66% (less than half of the adult population attends church regularly), Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, nonprofessing or other 31% . Administrative region : 19 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento); Artigas, Canelones, Cerro Largo, Colonia, Durazno, Flores, Florida, Lavalleja, Maldonado, Montevideo, Paysandu, Rio Negro, Rivera, Rocha, Salto, San Jose, Soriano, Tacuarembo, Treinta y Tres . Terrain : mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland . Elevation extremes lowest : Atlantic Ocean 0 m . Elevation extremes highest : Cerro Catedral 514 m . Natural resources : arable land, hydropower, minor minerals, fisheries . Land use arable land : 7,43%. Land use permanentcrops : 0,23%. Irrigated land : 1,800 sq km (1998 est.) . Natural hazards : seasonally high winds (the pampero is a chilly and occasional violent wind which blows north from the Argentine pampas), droughts, floods; because of the absence of mountains, which act as weather barriers, all locations are particularly vulnerable to rapid changes from weather fronts . Environment current issues : water pollution from meat packing/tannery industry; inadequate solid/hazardous waste disposal . Geography note : second-smallest South American country (after Suriname); most of the low-lying landscape (three-quarters of the country) is grassland, ideal for cattle and sheep raising . Population news : 3,399,237 (July 2004 est.) . age -14 p : 23,50%. age -14 men : 406 500. age -14 ladies : 392 497. age 15/64 p : 63,40%. age 15/64 men : 1 066 464. age 15/64 ladies : 1 087 100. age +65 p : 13,10%. age +65 men : 182 654. age +65 ladies : 264 022. date : 2004 est.. median age total : 32.2 years . median age male : 30.7 years . median age female : 33.7 years (2004 est.) . population growth rate : 0.51% (2004 est.) . population growth rate note : . birth rate : 14.44 births/1,000 population (2004 est.) . death rate : 9.07 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.) . net migration rate : -0.32 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.) . sex ratio at birth : 1.04 male(s)/female . sex ratio under 15 : 1.04 male(s)/female . sex ratio 15/64 : 0.98 male(s)/female . sex ratio more 65 : 0.69 male(s)/female . sex ratio total : 0.95 male(s)/female (2004 est.) . infant mortality rate male : 13.67 deaths/1,000 live births . infant mortality rate female : 10.91 deaths/1,000 live births (2004 est.) . life expectancy at birth total : 75.92 years . life expectancy at birth male : 72.71 years . life expectancy at birth female : 79.24 years (2004 est.) . total fertility rate : 1.96 children born/woman (2004 est.) .
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10/12 News and Latest websites in Uruguay. Uruguay News latest last picture, phone Uruguay, movie celebrity, fashion gadget, imigration immigration technology, music game, photo : Uruguay. A violent Marxist urban guerrilla movement, the Tupamaros, launched in the late 1960s, led Uruguay's president to agree to military control of his administration in 1973. By yearend, the rebels had been crushed, but the military continued to expand its hold throughout the government. Civilian rule was not restored until 1985. Uruguay's political and labor conditions are among the freest on the continent. Minimum salary : 2,500 pesos per month (103 USD/month)
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