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Argentina
Gabriela Figueiras
Argentina
Argentina is a massive South American country
which its terrain encompass the Andes mountains,
glacial lakes and pampas grassland. Due to its huge
diversity, Argentina is a country rich in lots of
minerals, fauna and flora. The country is known for
tango, steak and football.
European sensibilities and Latin American passion,
wide boulevards and cobblestone alleys; steamy
tango and romping rock and roll.
Argentina
The quality of life in Argentina is among the highest in South and Latin America. With a
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of more than US$ 540 billion, Argentina is one of the
largest economies in Latin America. In recent years, the country has focused on
economic development with social inclusion.
Argentina enjoys good relations with most of the countries in the region, particularly
Brazil and Venezuela. The country also plays a leading role in regional policymaking as a
representative of Latin America in the G-20, jointly with Mexico and Brazil
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Click Hyperlink to Learn More – Argentina's economy enjoys valuable
natural resources. Thanks to its large-scale agricultural and livestock
industry, the country is a major food producer.
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Buenos Aires – Its capital, Buenos Aires is often called the “Paris of
South America”, for its soaring architecture and rich European heritage.
Argentina’s school system has a fairly good
Education
reputation internationally. At around 98%,
the country has one of the highest levels of
literacy among all Latin American countries
Education
Argentina’s school system has a fairly good
reputation internationally. At around 98%,
the country has one of the highest levels of
literacy among all Latin American countries.
While the primary completion rate is high,
the secondary compeltion has been
reported low in the recent years.
Education
Compulsory education for Argentine
schoolchildren includes two options:
Either six years of primary school followed
by another six in secondary school
Seven years of primary school and five
years of secondary school.
Counting the final year of preschool, that
makes thirteen years of free obligatory
schooling.
Education
Secondary education itself is sub-divided into two
levels:
- Lower secondary provides general education
- Upper secondary encourages students to specialize
At the conclusion of secondary school, students can take
an entrance exam for enrollment in one of Argentina’s
state universities. Private universities in Argentina may have
additional admission requirements.
Education
THE COUNTRY HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF LITERACY AMONG ALL LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES
Education
During the second half of the twentieth
century, the Argentine education system
went through a clear process of privatisation
expressed in the increasing enrolment and
state funding of the private sector….+
Health Growth In
Argentina
Under its new strategy, the Inter-American
Development Bank will be promoting
economic development, inclusive growth
and urban sustainability in Argentina
Health Growth In Argentina
Health Growth In Argentina
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Life expectancy at birth, total (years)
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
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Births attended by skilled health staff (% of total)
Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000 live births)
Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12-23 months)
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2014
Health Growth In Argentina
Argentina has been improving its mortality rates over the past decades, as it
was revealed on Friday by the prestigious medical journal The Lancet.
Although the country’s rates are better than other countries in the region,
including Brazil, Cuba still has the better numbers.
In 2000, all the countries agreed that child mortality rate had to be reduced
and according to
The Lancet, many nations have been doing their best to improve those
rates.
According to The Lancet, Argentina between 1990 and 2013 reduced its
child mortality rate by 3.1 every year. According to the journal, there are 14.2
under five child deaths per 1,000 births.
Sanitation and
General
Improvements
In Argentina, the availability of water far
outstrips demand, yet 11% of the
population still lacks piped water, while a
large proportion of the rest squanders it
without a second thought.
Sanitation and General Improvements
There has been "substantial improvement" in the provision of access to clean
water…+
• The main problem is inequity of water access.
More infrastructure is needed to ensure everyone
has access to these basic services.
• This has a terrible effect because when a family does
not have access to drinking water, they drink
polluted water from wells, with the result that they
suffer from diseases and even disabilities
 The scenario in Argentina is similar to that of the rest
of Latin America, where there are also deep
inequities
• Nearly every month, Argentina's president, Cristina
Fernández, inaugurates waterworks providing piped
water to densely populated districts on the outskirts
of Buenos Aires.
 In some countries people waste less water, and in
others the works to improve access to water still lag
far behind.
•Sanitation and General Improvements
In Argentina, water is used primarily in
agriculture (71%); then come household
consumption (13%), livestock (9%) and
industry (7%).
The availability of water is not evenly spread
throughout Argentina. Approximately 85%
of the total surface water used is drawn
from the Rio de la Plata basin, which extends
from Bolivia to the Atlantic Ocean, covering
parts of Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina and
Uruguay, and the whole of Paraguay.
Sanitation and General Improvements
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Improved sanitation facilities (% of population with access)
Energy use (kg of oil equivalent per capita)
CO2 emissions (metric tons per capita)
Electric power consumption (kWh per capita)
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2014
Sanitation and General Improvements
• There has been "a great leap forward" in
investment, which has raised the proportion of
the population with access to piped water from
66% in 1991 to 89% today.
Argentina is the third biggest economy in Latin
Economic Growth
America. After the 2001 crisis, Argentina
returned to high growth rates, expanding on
average 1.7 percent from 2003 to 2012 on a
quarter over quarter basis.
Economic Growth
• ARGENTINA HAS ABUNDANT NATURAL RESOURCES:
• Well-educated population
• Moreover, in 2011 Argentina became the world´s 5th
biggest producer of wine
• An export-oriented agricultural sector
• Shipments of agricultural products have been the
motor of Argentina´s growth in recent years.
• Diversifying its industrial base and it has been
experiencing a record growth in the automobile,
textile and power sectors.
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Economic Growth
Ten years ago this month, Buenos Aires's central plaza was echoing with the sound of residents bashing their
saucepans in the street.
In December 2001, the cacerolazos – or pot-bashers, as these protesters were dubbed – came out in their
droves, doing whatever they could to be heard to register their anger against the economic mismanagement of
their country.
 People who had never vandalized anything in their lives suddenly found themselves running towards banks,
trying to smash their way into cash machines.
One 23-year-old was shot dead by a security guard and an estimated 38 more died as protests escalated
across the country.
Economic Growth
• the South American country is being hailed as
a remarkable success story.
• The economy appears to be booming, with a
real GDP growth of 9.1%.
• Unemployment is down to a 20-year low.
Some have been holding it up as an example
for Greece, forgetting that Greece does not
have the power to manipulate its own
currency, and it won't benefit from any price
boom in soy, which have both been key to
Argentina's recovery.
Population Growth
Argentina has an estimated
population of 42.1 million in 2015.
Population Growth
• As a very sizable country, it has a
fairly low population density of just
14 people per square kilometer
(37/square mile), which ranks
212th in the world
Population Growth
• The capital and largest city is Buenos Aires, an
autonomous city that is the second-largest
metro area in South America. Buenos Aires has
a population of 13 million.
• 92% of Argentina's population lives in cities,
with the 10 largest metro areas accounting for
nearly half of the population.
Population Growth
• Population growth (annual %) in Argentina was last
measured at 1.03 in 2014.
• Annual population growth rate for year t is the
exponential rate of growth of midyear population
from year t-1 to t, expressed as a percentage .
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Population is based on the de facto definition of
population, which counts all residents regardless of
legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not
permanently settled in the country of asylum, who
are generally considered part of the population of
the country of origin.
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