Languages: Spanish (official), native dialects spoken by about 200,000
Amerindians in the remote interior
Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
total population: 90%
male: 91%
female: 89%
Labor force: 7.6 million
by occupation: services 63%, industry 25%, agriculture 12% (1993)
@Venezuela:Government
Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Venezuela
conventional short form: Venezuela
local long form: Republica de Venezuela
local short form: Venezuela
Digraph: VE
Type: republic
Capital: Caracas
Administrative divisions: 21 states (estados, singular - estado), 1
territory* (territorio), 1 federal district** (distrito federal), and
1 federal dependency*** (dependencia federal); Amazonas*, Anzoategui,
Apure, Aragua, Barinas, Bolivar, Carabobo, Cojedes, Delta Amacuro,
Dependencias Federales***, Distrito Federal**, Falcon, Guarico, Lara,
Merida, Miranda, Monagas, Nueva Esparta, Portuguesa, Sucre, Tachira,
Trujillo, Yaracuy, Zulia
note: the federal dependency consists of 11 federally controlled
island groups with a total of 72 individual islands
Independence: 5 July 1811 (from Spain)