NLAID - Activity in Argentina

Information on Argentina

Birth rate 17.54 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)

Children under the age of 5 years underweight 2.3% (2005) country comparison to the world: 106

Climate mostly temperate; arid in southeast; subantarctic in southwest

Death rate 7.38 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.)

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

Infant mortality rate
total 10.81 deaths/1,000 live births
male 12.08 deaths/1,000 live births
female 9.48 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.)

Languages Spanish (official), Italian, English, German, French

Life expectancy at birth
total population 76.95 years
male 73.71 years
female 80.36 years (2011 est.)

Literacy
definition age 15 and over can read and write
total population 97.2%
male 97.2%
female 97.2% (2001 census)

Maternal mortality rate 70 deaths/100,000 live births (2008) country comparison to the world: 85

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

Population
41,769,726 (July 2011 est.)

Population growth rate 1.017% (2011 est.)

Religions nominally Roman Catholic 92% (less than 20% practicing), Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 4%

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)
total 16 years
male 15 years
female 17 years (2007)

MR projecten met NGOs

Project code NL-1-PPR-21754

Mensenrechtenfonds Buenos Aires 2008

Project code NL-1-PPR-17959

Overkoepelende Activiteit voor MRF-projecten aan te gaan in 2009

Project code NL-1-PPR-20155