The 2002 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

- per capita: purchasing power parity - $8,000 (2000 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: NA% industry: NA% services: NA%

      Population below poverty line: NA%

      Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA% highest 10%: NA%

      Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%

      Labor force: 14,000 (1996)

      Labor force - by occupation: government 33%, tuna canneries 34%, other 33% (1990)

      Unemployment rate: 6% (2000)

      Budget: revenues: $121 million (37% in local revenue and 63% in US grants) expenditures: $127 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY96/97)

      Industries: tuna canneries (largely supplied by foreign fishing vessels), handicrafts

      Industrial production growth rate: NA%

      Electricity - production: 130 million kWh (2000)

      Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% other: 0% (2000) nuclear: 0%

      Electricity - consumption: 120.9 million kWh (2000)

      Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2000)

      Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2000)

      Agriculture - products: bananas, coconuts, vegetables, taro, breadfruit, yams, copra, pineapples, papayas; dairy products, livestock

      Exports: $345 million (1999)

      Exports - commodities: canned tuna 93%

      Exports - partners: US 99.6%

      Imports: $452 million (1999)

      Imports - commodities: materials for canneries 56%, food 8%, petroleum products 7%, machinery and parts 6%

      Imports - partners: US 62%, Australia 11%, Japan 9%, NZ 7%, Fiji 4%, other 7%

      Debt - external: $NA

      Economic aid - recipient: important financial support from the US, more than $40 million in 1994

      Currency: US dollar (USD)

      Currency code: USD

      Exchange rates: the US dollar is used

      Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September

      Communications American Samoa

      Telephones - main lines in use: 13,000 (1997)

      Telephones - mobile cellular: 2,550 (1997)

      Telephone system: general assessment: NA domestic: good telex, telegraph, facsimile and cellular telephone services; domestic satellite system with 1 Comsat earth station international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean)

      Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998)

      Radios: 57,000 (1997)

      Television broadcast stations: 1 (1997)

      Televisions: 14,000 (1997)

      Internet country code: .as

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 1 (2000)

      Internet users: NA

      Transportation American Samoa

      Railways: 0 km

      Highways: total: 350 km paved: 150 km unpaved: 200 km

      Waterways: none

      Ports and harbors: Aunu'u (new construction), Auasi, Faleosao, Ofu,

       Pago Pago, Ta'u

      Merchant marine: none (2002 est.)

      Airports: 4 (2001)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 under 914 m: 1 (2001)

      Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 2 under 914 m: 2 (2001)

      Military American Samoa

      Military - note: defense is the responsibility of the US

      Transnational Issues American Samoa

      Disputes - international: none

      This page was last updated on 1 January 2002

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      Argentina

      Introduction

      Argentina

      Background: Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule and interference in subsequent governments was followed by a military junta that took power in 1976. Democracy returned in 1983, and numerous elections since then have underscored Argentina's progress in democratic consolidation.

      Geography Argentina

      Location: Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Chile and Uruguay

      Geographic coordinates: 34 00 S, 64 00 W

      Map references: South America

      Area: total: 2,766,890 sq km land: 2,736,690 sq km water: 30,200 sq km

      Area - comparative: slightly less than three-tenths the size of the US

      Land boundaries: total: 9,665 km border countries: Bolivia 832 km,

       Brazil 1,224 km, Chile 5,150 km, Paraguay 1,880 km, Uruguay 579 km

      Coastline: 4,989 km

      Maritime claims: 12 NM exclusive economic zone: Climate: mostly temperate; arid in southeast; subantarctic in southwest

      Terrain: rich plains of the Pampas in northern half, flat to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south, rugged Andes along western border

      Elevation extremes: lowest point: Salinas Chicas -40 m (located on

       Peninsula Valdes) highest point: Cerro Aconcagua 6,960 m

      Natural resources: fertile plains of the Pampas, lead, zinc, tin, copper, iron ore, manganese, petroleum, uranium

      Land use: arable land: 9% permanent crops: 1% other: 90% (1998 est.)

      Irrigated land: 15,610 sq km (1998 est.)

      Natural hazards: San Miguel de Tucuman and Mendoza areas in the Andes subject to earthquakes; pamperos are violent windstorms that can strike the Pampas and northeast; heavy flooding

      Environment - current issues: environmental problems (urban and rural) typical of an industrializing economy such as deforestation, soil degradation, desertification, air pollution, and water pollution note: Argentina is a world leader in setting voluntary greenhouse gas targets

      Environment - international agreements: party to: Antarctic-Environmental

       Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic

       Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol,

       Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous

       Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer

       Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling signed, but not ratified:

       Marine Life Conservation

      Geography - note: second-largest country in South America (after Brazil); strategic location relative to sea lanes between the South Atlantic and the South Pacific Oceans (Strait of Magellan, Beagle Channel, Drake Passage); Cerro Aconcagua is South America's tallest mountain, while the Valdes Peninsula is the lowest point on the continent

      People Argentina

      Population: 37,812,817 (July 2002 est.)

      Age structure: 0-14 years: