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IndicatorARGArgentinaLatin America & Caribbean
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.82rank #50
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile41.3rank #112
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.41rank #66
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.5rank #48
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.74rank #68
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile54.9rank #86
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.82rank #50
Military spending% GDP0.62%rank #133
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.43rank #52
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile63rank #118
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile51.2rank #112
Rule of Law0-100 percentile52.6rank #114
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.58rank #75
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.69rank #44
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.52rank #53
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile63.6rank #72
Women in parliament% seats41.2%rank #24
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.83rank #44
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment7%rank #119
Agriculture value added% GDP5.5%rank #87
Annual working hours per workerhours1,612.1rank #103
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker154,199.9rank #81
Current account balance% GDP-1.1%rank #50
Employment-to-population ratio%57.9%rank #89
External debt stocks% GNI39.1%rank #44
FDI net inflows% GDP0.46%rank #76
GDPcurrent US$683.1Brank #24
GDP growth%4.4%rank #62
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$14,898.1rank #65
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $27,846.6rank #67
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $25,876.1rank #67
Government expenditure% GDP21%rank #58
Gross capital formation% GDP16.1%rank #113
Gross savings% GDP13.4%rank #66
High-technology exports% manuf. exports3.9%rank #86
Human capital indexindex3.1rank #49
Industry value added% GDP22.9%rank #93
Inflation%219.9%rank #174
Labour force participation rate%62%rank #88
Personal remittances received% GDP0.13%rank #83
R&D expenditure% GDP0.6%rank #49
Researchers in R&Dper million1,312.8rank #46
Tax revenue% GDP10.4%rank #80
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.83rank #29
Trade openness% GDP30.4%rank #132
Unemployment% labor force7.1%rank #127
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%6.6%rank #120
Vulnerable employment% employment22.3%rank #74
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2419.2%rank #129
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2418.1%rank #123
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop99%rank #49
Basic sanitation access% pop94.8%rank #80
Child mortalityper 1000.95rank #45
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal3,360.4rank #42
DTP3 immunization coverage%75%rank #25
Health spending% GDP10.3%rank #25
Infant mortalityper 1k births8rank #41
Life expectancyyears77.5rank #80
Maternal mortalityper 100k33rank #26
Measles immunization% children82%rank #18
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%82%rank #18
Physiciansper 1k5.1rank #3
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m314.3rank #79
Road traffic deathsper 100k14.1rank #58
Smoking prevalence% adults23.5%rank #85
Suicide mortality rateper 100k7.9rank #98
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k44rank #68
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births9.5rank #71
Undernourishment% pop3.4%rank #5
Education
Adult literacy%99.1%rank #5
Education spending% GDP5%rank #31
Expected years of schoolingyears18.8rank #11
Mean years of schoolingyears11.2rank #64
Primary completion rate% relevant age98.9%rank #42
Primary enrollment% gross102.5%rank #56
Secondary enrollment% gross105.6%rank #29
Tertiary enrollment% gross107.8%rank #4
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00011.1rank #133
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.5rank #149
Median age of populationyears32.1rank #103
Net migration rateper 1,0000.09rank #92
Populationpeople45.85Mrank #35
Population growth%0.34%rank #152
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years81.4rank #84
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands48,308.9rank #43
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age52.4rank #134
Urban population%92.4%rank #14
Climate
CO₂ emissionst171.06Mrank #33
CO₂ per capitat3.7rank #85
Electricity access% pop98.4%rank #12
Electricity from coal% generation0.88%rank #11
Electricity from hydro% generation17.1%rank #38
Electricity from solar% generation3.4%rank #60
Electricity from wind% generation12.2%rank #23
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita2,822.1rank #37
Forest area% land10.3%rank #165
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita9.6rank #156
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh342.9rank #48
Renewable electricity%34.6%rank #50
Renewable energy share%9.2%rank #131
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e435.4rank #172
Society
Asylum seekerspeople4,621rank #100
Extreme poverty% pop1%rank #5
Female labor participation%52.5%rank #100
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10026.1rank #60
Gender Development Indexratio0.99rank #36
Gender Inequality Index0-10.26rank #63
Gini indexindex42.4rank #16
Homicide rateper 100k4.5rank #54
Human Development Index0-10.87rank #37
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.76rank #36
Internet users% pop89.7%rank #56
Life satisfaction0-106.4rank #42
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.76rank #18
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people4,941rank #104
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people542rank #61
Youth NEET rate%16.4%rank #82
Risk
Battle-related deaths (state-based)deaths/year0rank #1
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths45rank #10
Hazard & exposure0-104.6rank #40
Human hazard & exposure0-104.7rank #39
INFORM risk score0-103.7rank #26
Lack of coping capacity0-104rank #32
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-101.9rank #16
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-105.6rank #35
Natural hazard & exposure0-104.4rank #31
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year45rank #14
Socio-economic vulnerability0-101.4rank #15
Vulnerability0-102.7rank #16
Vulnerable groups0-103.9rank #34
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