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Mexico - Economy
Currency : Peso (MXN) = 100 Centavos
Rate of exchange (Sept.2004) :

1 Euro = 13.8 Pesos (MXN)

GDP (Gross Domestic Product), 2002 : 642 billion dollars
GDP per capita, 2002 : 6096 dollars
GNP (Gross National Product), 2005 : 753.39 billion dollars
GNP per capita, 2005 : 7154 dollars


Mexico - Miscellaneous information
CONSUMPTION (individual / year) (world rank 1997) :
- Eggs = 280 (2)
- Sugar = 40 Kg (17)
MAIN NATURAL RESOURCES (world rank 2002) :
- Avocados (1)
- Lemons (1)
- Oranges (3)
- Coffee (6)
- Corn (4)
- Sugar-cane (6)
- Cocoa (10)
- Wood (13)
- Honey (3)

- Bovins (8)
- Porcs (9)
- Silver (1)
- Oil (4)
- Lead (5)
- Zinc (6)
- Copper (11)
- Deposits of oil (13)
- Iron (14)
RECORDS :
- 4th most populous urban agglomeration in the world = Mexico (population = 19 M).
- Highest mountain in Central America = Orizaba (Sierra Madre ; 5570 m).
- The biggest tree trunk in the world is 14 m in diameter (El Arbol del Tule, Oaxaca).
- The most devastating meteorite falt in the Yucatan (Chicxulub) 65 M. years ago. It is supposed to be the cause of dinosaurs' extinction.


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