Buenos Aires by Numbers
Time Out Buenos Aires, my other Bible while I am here, has this interesting article on statistics of the city.
- 39 million Population of Argentina in 2005.
- 12.3 million Population of metropolitian BA in 2005 (2.9 million in the capital).
- 12th BA's ranking in list of world's largest cities.
- 142nd BA's ranking (out of 144) in list of world's most expensive cities.
- 4th BA's ranking in list of world's noisiest cities.
- 1:30 Ratio of psychoanalysts to population in Argentina.
- 1:100 Same ratio in developed nations.
- 1 in 30 Number of Argentines who have undergone plastic surgery since 1970.
- 1 in 10 Number of adolescent girls in Argentina suffering from an eating disorder.
- 40 Percentage of Argentinian population living below the poverty line in 2005.
- 3 Number of presidents since 1914 to complete a full term and hand power to an elected successor.
- 6 Number of Argentinian presidents since the 2001 crisis.
- 20 Percentage of Argentinians who are practising Roman Catholics.
- 15 Age of sexual consent in Argentina.
- 1986 Year that divorce became legal in Argentina.
- 2003 Year that same sex civil union was legalised in Buenos Aires.
- 14,000 Number of left-wing dissidents that "disappeared" under military rule from 1976 to 1983 according to official reports.
- 30,000 Number of left-wing dissidents that "disappeared" according to most human rights groups.
- 1st Argentina's world ranking for soy meat and soy oil exports.
- 4th Argentina's world ranking for beef exports in 2004.
- 60kg Amount of beef consumed per capita per year in Argentina.
- 7th Argentina's world ranking for wine consumption.
- 92 Percentage of Argenine households in which mate is drunk
- 50,000 Estimated number of tangos composed (and counting).
- 20 Percent of city streets still cobbled. (Hence my pic of street performers on a cobbled street, since all of my other photos are actually quite boring)
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