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MY COUNTRY FACTS

Official country name: Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Location:On the northern coast of South America. Year that the country joined the UN: the 15 of November in 1945. // 1.What are the people of the country called? // People of Venezuela are called Venezuelan.
 * PEOPLE: **

// 2.What is the official language? What other languages do people speak? // There are at least 40 languages around Venezuela, but Spanish it is the official language spoken by the majority of Venezuelans. You’ll also find people speaking English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Italian, Catalan, and other languages across the 23 states that make up Venezuela.

3. //What is the most-practised religion?// Venezuela’s people are primarily roman catholic (Catholic Church). It’s estimated that over 90% of the Venezuelan population are Roman Catholic. About 8% of Venezuela’s people are Protestant, and the remaining percentage of the population practice another religion, or are atheist. There are small but influential Muslim, Buddhist, and Jewish communities.


 * FLAG: **

Draw the flag and describe the meaning of its symbols and colours.

The basic design includes a horizontal tricolor of yellow, blue, and red, dating to the original flag introduced 1811. Further modifications have involved including a set of stars.

Yellow:  represents all the gold found in the Venezuelan land.

Blue: represents the seas on Venezuela's shores, the rivers that run through, and the sky above.

Red: represents the blood spilled for Venezuela's independence.

Stars: They represent eight of the former provinces: Caracas, Cumaná, Barcelona, Barinas, Guayana, Margarita, Merida and Trujillo. Formerly seven stars to refer to the seven United Provinces signed the Act of the Declaration of Independence, but as of March 9, 2006, included an eighth star to incorporate the Guayana region.
 * POPULATION: **

1.How many inhabitants does the country have?

According to the 2015 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 31,108,000 in 2015, compared to only 5,482,000 in 1950.

2. Population density.

Population density is 34.98 people per square.kilometer of land area. 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 their country of origin.

3. Birth rate. Reasons.

In Venezuela it has been going down. The total fertility rate has fallen in the period 1970-2000 from 5.9 children per woman to 3. The health-related aims of the national maternal and child health and family planning programme include providing safe and efficient contraceptives to help women avoid unwanted pregnancies; and contributing to the reduction of fertility rates among high-risk groups, such as adolescents and women with pregnancies spaced less than two years apart. A 1977 study reported a modern contraceptive prevalence rate of 38 per cent.

4.Death rate. Reasons.

If we look at the evolution of the mortality rate in Venezuela in recent years, we see that it has increased compared to 2012 which was 5.25 ‰, as is the case with respect to 2003, which was in the 5, 04. ‰ PREZI: GEOGRAPHY media type="custom" key="28129823" ECONOMY: 1.What is the most common sector of employment in the country? Mining jobs also are plentiful in Venezuela. Iron ore mining, construction materials and steel and aluminum manufacturing are among the country's leading industries . // 2.What is the unemployment rate in your country (by percentage)? // Unemployment Rate in Venezuela increased to 7.9percent in January from 5.50 percent in December of 2014. =//3. What is the percentage of contribution of its sectors? //= Sectors in: agriculture: 3.7%, industry: 35.5%,services: 60.8%.

// 4.Energy. production/consumption; exports/imports. // Venezuela's economy is dominated by the petroleum industry. As of 2008, Venezuela had 99.4 billion barrels of oil reserves, more than any other nation in South America. It also exported more crude oil than any other country in the Western hemisphere.  U.S. exports to Venezuela (imports) have included machinery, agricultural products, medical instruments, and cars. Venezuela is one of the top four suppliers of foreign oil to the United States. Venezuela imports about two-thirds of its food needs. Manufactures and exports steel, aluminium, transport equipment, textiles… Agriculure including wheat, corn, meal, cotton…

GOVERNEMENT: // 1.Is it a democratic or non-democratic state? // It is a democratic state. // 2.What is the name of the leader of the country? // It is Nicolás Maduro Moro. He has been elected in the elections of the 6th of December 2015,last Sunday. // 3.What type of government is the country ruled by? // It is a Federal Republic. 4.Is there a separation of powers? Which institution/person is charge of each of the powers? There isn’t a separation of powers. It is an Executive power.:The most powerful branch of government is the executive branch, headed by the president. Legislative power:whose 165 members are elected for five years. Judicial power:he judiciary consists of a supreme court of 32 members and several lower courts.citizen power: in charge of addressing the issues that the Supreme Court believe when they violate the constitution. 5.What are the main political parties of the country (socialist party, communist party, green party, republicans, democrats, etc) PCV communist party,AD social democracy,PJ liberalism. 6.Was your country ever a colony? If so, when did it gain its independence? After a series of unsuccessful uprisings, Venezuela, under the leadership of Francisco de Miranda, a Venezuelan marshal who had fought in the American Revolution and the French Revolution, declared independence on 5 July 1811.This began the Venezuelan War of Independence.

MIGRATION: How migrations affect? // 1.Number of inmigrants. Where do they come from? Why? // // 2.Number of emigrants. Where do they come from? Why? // <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif;">However, according to 2010 World Bank statistics, that year 521,500 Venezuelans were living outside the country, compared to 2,122,300 Colombians, 1,367,300 Brazilians, 1,090,800 Peruvians, and 956,800 Argentinians. On the other hand, 1,007,400 people immigrated to Venezuela, the second highest amount in South America after Argentina. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif;">That year, also according to the World Bank, 19.9% of immigrants to Venezuela were refugees, and the main countries of origin were Colombia, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, the Dominican Republic, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Cuba. Top destinations for emigrants were the United States, Spain, Colombia, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Canada, Chile, Italy, and the United Kingdom. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Inmigrants are attracted to Venezuela because of the political situation, access to public health care. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Venezuela also does not deport foreigners, even if their visa has expired. It will only deport them if they are committing serious crimes in the country. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The majority of emigrating youth have been occurred because of the education facilities that their children won’t find overseas. Many people of the world are qualified people who can’t find work.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">DOMESTIC POLICY:

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1.Which are the current issues that affect your country in domestic policy? <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Food shortage, economic crisis…

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2.What are the main policies about healthcare? <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Venezuela’s health care system, long a source of pride for the government, is in deep crisis. Thousands of patients cannot get essential medical treatments, and thousands more have been wait-listed for potentially life-saving surgery because doctors don’t have the materials they need to operate.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">3.Which are the main conflicts that affect your country? <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Closure of the border will remain closed. The crisis has affected 20,000 people, according to UN data: 1,500 because they were deported from Venezuela and the rest because they have decided to leave their own country in which they are residing for fear of retaliation.