Name | Paraguay |
Long name | Republic of Paraguay |
Population (source) | estimate |
Population (people) | 6,800,284 (2013) |
Constitutional form | Republic |
Drives on | |
Head of state authority | Executive |
Main continent | America |
Number of airports | 800 |
Airports - with paved runways | 15 |
Airports - with unpaved runways | 785 |
Area (m²) | 406,752 |
Birth rate (births/1,000 population) | 17 |
Calling code | |
Children under the age of 5 years underweight (%) | |
Current Account Balance (US$) | -544,600,000 |
Death rate (deaths/1,000 population) | 5 |
Debt - external (Billion US$) | 5 |
Economic aid donor (Billion $) | |
Electricity consumption (billion kWh) | 9 |
Electricity consumption per capita (kWh per person) | 1,299 |
Electricity exports (million kWh) | 45,130 |
Electricity imports (million kWh) | |
Electricity production (billion kWh) | 55 |
Exports (Billion $) | 10 |
GDP - per capita (PPP) (US$) | 5,500 |
GDP (purchasing power parity) (Billion $) | 36 |
GDP real growth rate (%) | 4 |
Gross national income (US$) | 48 |
Human Development Index | 1 |
Health expenditures (% of GDP) | 7 |
Heliports | |
HIV AIDS adult prevalence rate (%) | 0 |
HIV AIDS deaths | 500 |
HIV AIDS people living with HIV AIDS | 13,000 |
Hospital bed density (beds/1,000 population) | 1 |
Capital city | Asuncion |
Currency | Paraguayan guaraní |
Imports (Billion $) | 12 |
Industrial production growth rate (%) | 7 |
Infant mortality rate (deaths/1,000 live births) | 22 |
Inflation rate consumer prices (%) | 8 |
Internet hosts | 278,473 |
Internet tld | .py |
Internet users | 1,105,000 |
Investment (gross fixed) (%) | 17 |
Iso 3166 code | PY |
ISO CODE | PRY |
Labor force | 3,085,000 |
Life expectancy at birth (years) | 76 |
Literacy (%) | 94 |
Manpower available for military service | 1,678,335 |
Manpower fit for military service | 1,409,859 |
Manpower reaching militarily age annually | 73,367 |
Is democracy | Yes |
Market value of publicly traded shares (US$) | 958,099,968 |
Maternal mortality rate (deaths/100,000 live births) | 99 |
Merchant marine | 22 |
Military expenditures percent of GDP | 1 |
Natural gas consumption (cubic meters) | 0 |
Natural gas consumption per capita (cubic meters per person) | 0 |
Natural gas exports (cubic meters) | 0 |
Natural gas imports (cubic meters) | 0 |
Natural gas production (cubic meters) | 0 |
Natural gas proved reserves (cubic meters) | 0 |
Net migration rate (migrant/1,000 population) | 0 |
Obesity adult prevalence rate (%) | |
Oil consumption (bbl/day) | 31,000 |
Oil consumption per capita (bbl/day per 1000 people) | 5 |
Oil exports (bbl/day) | 0 |
Oil imports (bbl/day) | 23,810 |
Oil production (bbl/day) | 0 |
Oil proved reserves (bbl) | 0 |
Physicians density (physicians/1,000 population) | 1 |
Population below poverty line (%) | 35 |
Population census (people) | |
Population density (Number of people per square kilometer) | 16 |
Population estimate (people) | 6,800,284 (2013) |
Population growth rate (%) | 1 |
Public debt (% of GDP) | 14 |
Railways (km) | 36 |
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold (US$) | 5,096,000,000 |
Roadways (km) | 29,500 |
Stock of direct foreign investment abroad (US$) | |
Stock of direct foreign investment at home (US$) | 3,393,000 |
Telephones main lines in use | 405,000 |
Telephones main lines in use per capita | 6 |
Telephones mobile cellular | 5,915,000 |
Telephones mobile cellular per capita | 85 |
Total fertility rate (children born/woman) | 2 |
Unemployment rate (%) | 7 |
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 (%) | 12 |
Waterways (km) | 3,100 |
Valley | |
Helicopter | |
Canyon | |
Artillery | |
Crater | |
Religion | Catholic church |
Continent | America |
Border | Dionisio Foianini Triangle, Frontière entre la Bolivie et le Paraguay |
Plateau | |
Marsh | |
Demonym | paraguayan, guaraní |