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Key facts

  • Currency: Venezuelan bolivar fuerte
  • Capital city: Caracas
  • Region: South America
  • Continent: Americas
  • Land area: 882,050 km²
  • Population: 28,301,696
  • Political Leader: Nicolás Maduro (President)

Latest news

'Potentially serious impropriety': Labour questions Johnson's Venezuela meeting

Read: The Guardian

2024-03-28

Venezuelan migrants increasingly stranded in Mexico, contributing to decline in illegal crossings to US

Read: Fox News

2024-03-28

Venezuela opposition succeeds in registering candidate

Read: BBC

2024-03-27

Argentina claims to be sheltering Venezuelan opposition leaders in embassy

Read: Al Jazeera

2024-03-27

Venezuelan leader accuses opposition of two assassination plots against him in 15 days

Read: TASS News Agency

2024-03-27

Venezuelan Opposition Blocked from Election, Dimming Democratic Hopes

Read: The New York Times

2024-03-27

Venezuela's regime, led by Nicolas Maduro, barred leading opposition candidate Corina Yoris from running in July's presidential election.

Read: The Wall Street Journal

2024-03-27

Metrics

Business

GDP 482,359,000,000.00 current US$
Inflation 254.95 annual %
Self-employed 40.15 % of total employment
Unemployment 5.62 % of total labor force
Vulnerable employment 38.60 % of total employment


Environment

Agricultural land 215,000.00 km²
Alternative and nuclear energy 8.25 % of total energy use
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) 72,509.00 kt
Electricity production from coal sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from natural gas sources 19.42 % of total
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources 63.70 % of total
Electricity production from nuclear sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from oil sources 16.89 % of total
Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric 0.00 % of total
Net energy imports -178.78 % of energy use
Fertility rate 2.21 births per woman
Forest area 461,734 km²
Fossil fuel energy consumption 88.38 % of total
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 -5,114.26 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Median age 24.20 years
Methane emissions 97,594.20 kt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions 13,097.20 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Female Population 14,304,904
Male Population 13,996,791
Renewable energy consumption 23.33 % of total final energy consumption
Rural land area 899,029.00 km²
Rural population 3,289,223
Urban land area 6,248.97 km²
Urban population 25,012,473
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters 3.25 % of total population


Health

Birth rate 15.88 per 1,000 people
Death rate 8.12 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita 142.46 current US$
Health expenditure 3.82 % of GDP
Hospital beds 0.87 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth 71 years
Suicide mortality rate 2.10 per 100,000 population


Other

Access to electricity 99.99 % of population
Individuals using the Internet 61.60 % of population
Net migration 297,713
Press freedom 1.59


Politics

Armed forces personnel 343,000
Democracy score 3.16
Democracy type Authoritarian
Military expenditure 0.65 % of GDP
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments 22.16 %


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Cities Population In Venezuela

Venezuela Historical Agricultural Land

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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 1 day ago

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