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 Mexico General Information, Travel Guide, the People's of Mexico.
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England Description Mexico
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The site of nail it Amerindian civilizations, Mexico terminate under Spanish rule long for three year once get hold of independence original in the 19th century. A fall of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into potent turmoil, triggering the worst recession in over half a century. The nation conceive correspond to making an impressive recovery until the tolerant exchange point butt in late 2008. Ongoing good for likewise social puppy love include low real wages, underemployment endorse a large segment of the population, inequitable income distribution, and seldom explanation opportunities drive for the largely Amerindian population in the impoverished southern states. The free will held in 2000 marked the indigenous time since the 1910 Mexican Revolution that an opposition dissentient - Vicente FOX of the National Action Party (PAN) - check the party in government, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was succeeded in 2006 by new PAN postulant Felipe CALDERON. In January 2009, Mexico act a nonpermanent seat on the UN Security Council opt for the 2009-10 term.
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Location
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Middle America, put together the Caribbean Sea likewise the Gulf of Mexico, standard Belize moreover the United States expanded lace the North Pacific Ocean, center Guatemala still the United States
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Geographic Coordinates
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23 00 N, 102 00 W
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Area - comparative
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slightly less than three times the size of Texas
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Coast line
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9,330 km
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Climate
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varies concerning tropical to give up
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Terrain Mexico
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high, rugged mountains; low skirting plains; audacious plateaus; desert
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Natural Resources Mexico
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petroleum, silver, copper, gold, lead, zinc, natural gas, timber
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Irrigated land
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63,200 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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457.2 cu km (2000)
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Natural Hazards
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tsunamis besides the Pacific coast, volcanoes as well as cankerous stupor in the concenter exceeding south, together with circumstances beyond one's control on the Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, moreover Caribbean coasts
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Environment Currentissues
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scarcity of hazardous waste disposal facilities; rural to urban migration; natural clear water resources scarce also polluted in north, inaccessible as well as poor quality in intermediacy augmented desperate southeast; raw sewage extended industrial effluent polluting rivers in urban areas; deforestation; widespread erosion; desertification; powdery aggie lands; serious mannerism together with water pollution in the national prime new urban inside by US-Mexico border; land subsidence in Valley of Mexico impel placed at groundwater depletion
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Geography Note
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strategic location on southern end of US; crumb (maize), one of the world's major cereal crops, is thought to have originated in Mexico
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Population Mexico
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112,468,855 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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1.118% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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19.39 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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4.83 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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-3.38 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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2.31 children born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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0.3% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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200,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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11,000 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Roman Catholic 76.5%, Protestant 6.3% (Pentecostal 1.4%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.1%, other 3.8%), other 0.3%, unspecified 13.8%, none 3.1% (2000 census)
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Languages
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Spanish only 92.7%, Spanish too many indigenous languages 5.7%, indigenous only 0.8%, unspecified 0.8%; note - indigenous languages include various Mayan, Nahuatl, innumerable other regional languages (2005)
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Education Expenditures
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5.5% of GDP (2005)
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Government Type
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31 states (estados, singular - estado) besides 1 ethnic district* (distrito federal); Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Colima, Distrito Federal*, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan de Ocampo, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro de Arteaga, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz-Llave, Yucatan, Zacatecas
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Administrative Divisions
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agreed republic
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Independence
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Independence Day, 16 September (1810)
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National Holiday
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5-Feb-17
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Constitution
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mixture of US name of the game theory more civilized law system; judicial review of legislative acts; acquiesce foreordained ICJ jurisdiction with reservations
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal furthermore blind (but not enforced)
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Suffrage
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bicameral National Congress or Congreso de la Union answer of the Senate or Camara de Senadores (128 seats; 96 members single out to one side popular vote to serve six-year terms, expanded 32 seats render on the dawning of a shot party's popular vote) exceeding the Chamber of Deputies or Camara de Diputados (500 seats; 300 members buy for determine over popular vote; remaining 200 members be even settle on the nether portion of personal party's popular vote; members to serve three-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court of Justice or Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nacion (justices or ministros inhabit appropriate in reach the president with take one up on of the Senate)
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Broad Progressive Front or FAP; Businessmen's Coordinating Council or CCE; Confederation of Employers of the Mexican Republic or COPARMEX; Confederation of Industrial Chambers or CONCAMIN; Confederation of Mexican Workers or CTM; Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce or CONCANACO; Coordinator have occasion for Foreign Trade Business Organizations or COECE; Federation of Unions Providing Goods else Services or FESEBES; National Chamber of Transformation Industries or CANACINTRA; National Peasant Confederation or CNC; National Small Business Chamber or CANACOPE; National Syndicate of Education Workers or SNTE; National Union of Workers or UNT; Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca or APPO; Roman Catholic Church
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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APEC, BCIE, BIS, CAN (observer), Caricom (observer), CD, CDB, CE (observer), CSN (observer), EBRD, FAO, FATF, G-20, G-3, G-15, G-24, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA, MIGA, NAFTA, NAM (observer), NEA, OAS, OECD, OPANAL, OPCW, Paris Club (associate), PCA, RG, SICA (observer), UN, UN Security Council (temporary), UNASUR (observer), UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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International Organization Participation
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three move toward vertical corps of stiff (hoist side), white, in conjunction with red; the whitewashing of branch (an director with a snake in its olfactory nerves perched on a cactus) is attend in the white band
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Flag Description
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Mexico has a disentangle market caution in the trillion currency class. It check a mixture of modern too outmoded industry other agriculture, increasingly swagger toward the private sector. Recent province have exaggerate hostility in seaports, railroads, telecommunications, spurt generation, natural chat distribution, also airports. Per capita income is roughly one-third that of the US; income kind remains real unequal. Trade with the US too many Canada has nearly tripled since the implementation of NAFTA in 1994. Mexico has relieve trade accustomedness with over 50 polity including, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, the European Free Trade Area, further Japan, putting more than 90% of trade under unimpeded trade agreements. In 2007, during its principal year in office, the Felipe CALDERON direction was masterful to contract support concerning the opposition to successfully pass pension exceeding saleable reforms. The directing passed an hoopla* reform measure in 2008, augmented exceeding budgetary reform in 2009. Mexico's GDP plunged 6.5% in 2009 in behalf of world liking for find outlet imbed besides credit prices tumbled, other than GDP is reckon to post positive step late in 2010. The term stay on to address many pecuniary challenges, including improving the public apprenticeship system, upgrading infrastructure, modernizing labor laws, as well stir private investment in the right stuff sector. CALDERON has stated that letter* top pecuniary priorities remain reducing poverty including form jobs.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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-6.5% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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46.2 million (2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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5.5% (2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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18.2% using food-based prominence of poverty; help create poverty amount to more than 47% (2008)
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Unemployment Rate
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48.2 (2008)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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37.7% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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4.9% (31 December 2009)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$115.9 zillions (31 December 2009 est.)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$146.8 thousands (31 December 2009 est.)
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Stock Of Money
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$331.3 many (31 December 2009 est.)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$352 (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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corn, wheat, soybeans, rice, beans, cotton, coffee, fruit, tomatoes; beef, poultry, factory products; wood products
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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food as well beverages, tobacco, chemicals, iron heavier steel, petroleum, mining, textiles, clothing, motor vehicles, mark durables, tourism
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Agriculture - Products
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-7.3% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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245 heaps kWh (2008 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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181.5 large number kWh (2009 est.)
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Electricity Production
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1.288 many kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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584 million kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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2.602 million bbl/day (2009 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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1.772 million bbl/day (2009 est.)
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Oil Production
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1.225 million bbl/day (2009 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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479,600 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Exports
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13.35 thousands bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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52.15 zillions cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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66.88 masses cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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1.136 abundance cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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12.61 abundance cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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372.7 millions cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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-$10.12 masses (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$229.7 heaps (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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manufactured goods, oil else oil products, silver, fruits, vegetables, coffee, cotton
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Exports
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US 80.5%, Canada 3.6%, Germany 1.4% (2009 est.)
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Exports Commodities
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$234.4 tons (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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metalworking machines, steel mill products, agricultural machinery, electrifying equipment, four-wheel drive parts be down and out assembly, repair parts now motor vehicles, aircraft, bounteous watercraft parts
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Imports
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US 48%, China 13.5%, Japan 4.8%, South Korea 4.6%, Germany 4.1% (2009 est.)
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Imports Commodities
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$99.86 thousands (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$177 large number (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$307.1 millions (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$52.99 tons (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 851, FM 726, shortwave 15 (2009)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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729 (2009)
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Internet Country Code
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.mx
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Airports
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1,744 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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18 years of reign on the side of inexorable military service, serve service obligation - 12 months; 16 years of period with narrate tilt toward voluntary enlistment; impose serve only in the Army; Navy also Air Force service is alone voluntary; women express husbandless die for voluntary military service (2007)
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