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Stats for those interested

Wealthiest Countries in South America
Rank Country GDP per capita (US Dollars)
1 Chile 12,400
2 Argentina 10,000
3 Uruguay 8,500
4 Venezuela 8,000
5 Colombia 6,200
6 Brazil 6,150
7 French Guiana 6,000
8 Peru 4,400
9 Ecuador 4,300
10 Paraguay 3,650
11 Suriname 3,400
12 Bolivia 3,000
13 Guyana 2,500

Data compiled from: CIA - World Factbook, web: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Most Populous Countries in South America
Rank Country Population
1 Brazil 172,860,370
2 Colombia 39,685,655
3 Argentina 36,955,182
4 Peru 27,012,899
5 Venezuela 23,542,6497
6 Chile 15,153,797
7 Ecuador 12,920,092
8 Bolivia 8,152,620
9 Paraguay 5,585,828
10 Uruguay 3,334,074
11 Guyana 697,286
12 Suriname 431,303
13 French Guiana 172,605
14 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 2,826

Data compiled from: CIA - World Factbook, web: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Military Expenditure in South America
Rank Country Expenditure (US Dollars)
1 Brazil 13.408 billion
2 Argentina 4.3 billion
3 Colombia 3.0 billion
4 Chile 2.5 billion
5 Peru 1.0 billion
6 Venezuela 934.0 million
7 Ecuador 720.0 million
8 Uruguay 172.0 million
9 Bolivia 147.0 million
10 Paraguay 125.0 million
11 Suriname 8.5 million
12 Guyana 7.0 million

Data compiled from: CIA - World Factbook, web: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

By 2retirensa on Sep 12, 2005, 07:30 in Friendly Talkzone.

thur says on Sep 12, 2005, 07:59:

Distribution. Colombia 5th is GDP per capita... just too bad that just the wealth _distribution_ is so extremely unequal, eh?

- www.pbase.com/thur

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Hunter says on Sep 12, 2005, 08:47:

thur I would say that is no differant in the other South American Countries, possibly with the exception of Chile.

Hunter

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ws244 says on Sep 12, 2005, 10:23:

wealth Yes a real socialist way of thinking. Why not just kick all the gringos, their companies, etc. out of south america and let the south americans resolve their own social ills and redistributation of the wealth. Good luck and in the end it will still be the gringos fault. Pull 3 billion dollars aid out of Colombia and see
how long the peso holds. let us watch venezuela's democracy as they are voting themselves right out of their own democracy. Almost every educated south american is knocking at our gringo door with one hand and waving a fist with the other. Of course are then the south american ex pats who wil always be north americans second and their native nationalality first as the middle easterners in europe.

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