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| Paraguay | Plants and Animal | Back to Top |
Soybeans had replaced cotton as the nation's most valuable crop by the 1980s. A comparatively new crop for Paraguay, soybeans were not produced in any quantity until 1967, when they were introduced as the summer rotation crop in a national plan for selfsufficiency in wheat. After soybean prices nearly tripled in 1973, much of the land slated for wheat was sown with soybeans instead. As the lucrative nature of soybean cultivation and processing became apparent, several large agribusinesses from Brazil, the United States, and Italy engaged in large-scale, commercial production of soybeans and soybean oil. It is difficult to exaggerate the drastic growth soybeans enjoyed in Paraguay. In 1970 soybeans covered only 54,600 hectares and had an annual production of over 75,000 tons. By 1987 soybeans covered some 718,800 hectares, more than any other crop, with an annual output of 1 million tons and export revenues of around US$150 million. The soybean crop grew primarily in the newly colonized departments of Itapúa, Alto Paraná, Canendiyú, and Amambay. Soybeans were produced principally for the world market anf sold both as a raw bean and as a processed oil, which was also consumed locally. Soybean prices generally rose beginning in 1970s but experienced remarkable fluctuations in the early to mid-1980s before recovering in the late 1980s. The major constraint on growth in soybean output, besides price fluctuations, was the deficiency of storage, drying facilities, and local processing capacity.
Other farm animal activity including poultry farming and the swine industry. Some of the most productive poultry farming took place in the Mennonite colonies, in Japanese colonies in the eastern border region, and in the greater Asunción area. Observers around that there were over 14 million chickens, 400,000 ducks, 55,000 turkeys, and several other types of fowl. Egg production stood at 600 million per year in the late 1980s and was growing at about 4 % a year. Pig farming was a comparatively minor activity, engaged in mostly by small farmers. The pork industry's greatest structural problems were the high cost of feed and consumer preferences for beef. Government policy emphasized self-sufficiency in feed grown on small pig farms. Paraguay's swine population amounted to roughly 1.3 million in the late 1980s and had grown at a rate of 6 % a year in the first half of the decade.
| Paraguay | Communications | Back to Top |
general assessment: meager telephone service; principal switching center is Asuncion
domestic: fair microwave radio relay network
international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
| Paraguay | Culture | Back to Top |
For most of its history, a series of dichotomies characterized Paraguayan society. A contrast existed between rural and urban Paraguay and, even more pointedly, between Asunción--where economic, social, and political trends originated--and the rest of Paraguay. In rural Paraguay a divide existed between those holding legal title to land, usually the owners of large estates dedicated to commercial farming, and the mass of peasant squatters growing crops largely for their families' subsistence. Similarly, there was a gulf between the elite--educated, prosperous, city-based and - bred--and the nation's poor, whether rural or urban. Finally, although most Paraguayans retained their fluency in Guaraní and this indigenous language continued to play a vital role in public life, there was a continuum of fluency in Spanish that paralleled (and reflected) the social hierarchy. These dichotomies not only continued into the 1980s but were exacerbated by the considerable, dramatic changes that had occurred in Paraguayan society since the 1960s.
Paraguayans of all classes viewed family and kin as the center of the social universe. Anyone not related through blood or marriage was regarded with reserve, if not distrust. People expected to be able to call upon extended kin for assistance as necessary and counted on them for unswerving loyalty. Godparents (whether or not they were kin) were valuable as well in strengthening social links within the web of kinship.
The pace of urbanization--modest by world and Latin American standards--quickened during the boom years. Economic growth enabled the cities to absorb large numbers of rural Paraguayans who had been displaced by increased population pressures and the nation's skewed land distribution. Economic downturns in the 1980s, stoked unrest among workers and peasants.
| Paraguay | Defence | Back to Top |
Military branches: Army, Navy (includes Naval Air and Marines), Air Force
Military manpower - military age: 17 years of age
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 1,388,436 (2001 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 1,001,516 (2001 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 58,359 (2001 est.)
| Paraguay | International Disputes | Back to Top |
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| Paraguay | Economy | Back to Top |
Agriculture is prominent in the Paraguayan economy, contributing 29 % of the gross domestic product (GDP). In 1999 the GDP was $7.7 billion, or $1,440 per capita.
Agriculture is the most common economic activity, employing more than two-fifths of the workforce. It also accounts for about one-fourth of the gross domestic product (GDP) and the large majority of exports. The economy is therefore highly dependent on the vagaries of climate and world commodity prices for its main agricultural products. General Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda (president 1954–89) promoted domestic and foreign private investment, particularly in commercial agriculture. Until the mid-1970s, public-sector investment was low by Latin American standards and was concerned mainly with improving roads, telecommunications, and air transport. This changed with the establishment of several state companies, most notably Itaipú Binacional, set up in 1973 to build a huge hydroelectric dam on the Paraná, and steel, cement, and alcohol-distillation plants. Public-sector employment grew rapidly, making up about one-tenth of the labour force during the late 20th century. Until 1982, when the construction of Itaipu was completed, Paraguay was able to offset its current account and trade deficit with international loans. For the rest of the decade, the nation was faced with a growing public-sector deficit, high debt repayments on commercial borrowing, and dwindling international reserves.
Paraguay has a market economy marked by a large informal sector. The informal area features both reexport of imported consumer goods to neighboring countries as well as the activities of thousands of microenterprises and urban street vendors. Because of the importance of the informal sector, accurate economic measures are difficult to obtain. A large %age of the population derives their living from agricultural activity, often on a subsistence basis. The formal economy grew by an average of about 3% annually in 1995-97, but GDP declined slightly in 1998 and 1999. On a per capita basis, real income has stagnated at 1980 levels. Most observers attribute Paraguay's poor economic performance to political uncertainty, corruption, deficiency of progress on structural reform, substantial internal and external debt, and deficient infrastructure. Growth rebounded slightly in 2000.
| Paraguay | Education | Back to Top |
Education in the colonial era was largely limited to the upper class. The wealthy either hired tutors or sent their children abroad. Although there were a few private schools in operation following the declaration of freedom in 1811, they languished throughout most of the nineteenth century. The only secondary school closed in 1822. By the end of the War of the Triple Alliance, perhaps as little as 14 % of the populace was literate.
In the early 1970s, less than 5 % of those entering rural elementary schools finished this course of study, as compared to 30 % of urban youngsters. Only 1 % of rural children finished secondary school; the figure for city children was 10 %. Rural schools also were plagued with high rates of student absenteeism and grade repetition. A 1980 survey showed a substantial improvement in the %age of children completing the elementary school cycle. The figure for who completed their course of privacy school studies had risen to 38 %. Although the completion rate for rural students climbed to 25 %, this figure was substantially below that for urban youngsters.
In the late 1970s, the Ministry of Education and Worship attempted to deal with the crisis in rural education by developing a bilingual program for monolingual Guaraní. The program was designed to develop basic oral skills in Guaraní and oral and written skills in Spanish. Guaraní literature also was available at the secondary and university levels.
Elementary education in Paraguay is free and nominally compulsory for children from 6 to 12 years of age. While the number of schools is insufficient, 97 % of the adult population is literate. In 1997, 905,800 pupils were listed in primary schools and 327,800 students attended secondary, vocational, and teacher-training schools. About 42,300 students attended institutions of higher education, which included the National University of Asunción (1890) and the Catholic University of Our Lady of Asunción (1960).
| Paraguay | Government | Back to Top |
Government: Central government separated into three branches: administrator, legislative, and judiciary. Under provisions of Constitution of 1967, chief administrator is president of the republic, elected by popular vote for five-year term. Within twenty-four hours of president's resignation, death, or disability, the legislature and an advisory body, the Council of State, designate a provisional president. If at least two years of term have elapsed, provisional president serves out full term. If fewer than two years have elapsed, elections are to be held within ninety days. Legislature consists of Senate with at least thirty members and Chamber of Deputies with at least sixty members, plus alternates. Members popularly elected for five-year terms that run concurrently with presidential term. Highest court in judiciary is Supreme Court of Justice made up of at least five members who serve five-year terms after nomination by president and ratification by legislature. Lower courts include appellate courts, courts of first instance, justice of the peace courts, and military courts. Central government exerts complete control over local administration, which consists of nineteen departments.
Politics: On February 3, 1989, Major General Andrés Rodríguez named provisional president after leading military coup against President Alfredo Stroessner Mattiauda. Rodríguez easily won a presidential election held on May 1, 1989. Military's action consistent with Paraguay's authoritarian style of politics, a tradition that began with dictator José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia (governed 1814-40) and continued in an unbroken line to Stroessner himself, who came to power in a 1954 coup. As candidate of the National Republican Association-Colorado Party (Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado), Stroessner elected to eight consecutive terms as nation's president in elections that observers characterized as fraudulent. Beginning in mid-1980s, Colorado Party broke into militant and orthodoxist factions. Stroessner sided with militants and purged orthodoxists from government. Rodríguez, an ally of orthodoxists, expected to purge militants. In contrast to Stroessner, Rodríguez expected to allow all noncommunist opposition parties to compete in May 1989 elections. None, had an organization comparable to Colorado Party.
International Relations: traditionally controlled by dependence on Argentina to ensure access to the port of Buenos Aires. Stroessner changed course of Paraguayan foreign policy and built close relations with Brazil. Although ties not as close since onset of democratization in Brazil in mid-1980s, massive scale of Brazilian investment in Paraguay precludes remarkable change in relations. Relations with United States strained since early 1980s because of United States concerns over Paraguayan corruption, narcotics trafficking, and human rights abuses.
| Paraguay | History | Back to Top |
Paraguay was one of the first countries in South America to achieve freedom. Its history since the reached of the Spaniards in 1537 evokes images of tremendous sacrifice and suffering amid lush surroundings. Because of its small population and poverty, its weight among the nations of the modern world is small. At the time of the Spanish conquest in the mid1500s , Paraguay was the second most valuable of the Spanish dominions in South America after Peru. But its preeminence as a colony did not last because it produced no gold or silver. In the long run, the nation's deficiency of precious ores proved to be a blessing because it allowed Paraguay to escape the horrors of slavery that prevailed in the mines of Peru and Mexico. The Spanish conquest and settlement proceeded more humanely in Paraguay than elsewhere in Spanish America.
Although Stroessner clearly described continuity with Paraguay's authoritarian past, he also dragged the nation out of its isolation. A mammoth hydroelectric project at Itaipú on the Rio Paraná shattered Paraguay's seclusion forever by injecting billions of dollars into the economy. The project put money into the pockets of previously penniless campesinos and contributed to the emergence of the middle class. Many observers believed that economic growth unleashed demands for democratic reform in Paraguay, and, as the 1980s began, the Stroessner regime seemed increasingly under attack from its critics.
| Paraguay | Introduction | Back to Top |
Paraguay (nation), officially Republic of Paraguay, inland republic in South America, bordered on the north-west and north by Bolivia, on the east by Brazil, and on the south and south-west by Argentina. The total area is 406,752 sq km (157,048 sq mi). Asunción is the nation's capital.
Official Name- Republic of Paraguay| Paraguay | Land | Back to Top |
Paraguay comprises a total of 40.6 million hectares of land. But based on soil surveys, analysts have around that only one-fifth of that area is appropriate for normal crop production. According to the 1981 agricultural census, 7 % of the land was dedicated to crop production, 20 % to forestry, 26 % to farm animal, and 47 % to other purposes. These figures suggested the great agricultural potential that remained in Paraguay in the late 1980s. One of the most valuable trends in Paraguayan agriculture was the increase in the %age of land under cultivation, which had been only 2 % in 1956. farm animal activity fluctuated greatly during the 1970s and 1980s but generally had increased, rising above the 22-% land use reported in 1956. The improved utilization of agricultural resources resulted from increased colonization, favorable price movements for cash crops, further mechanization, and infrastructural improvements connecting produce with markets.
The nation's land use changed rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s as foreign investment, Paraguayan and Brazilian colonists, the construction of Itaipú, favorable commodity prices, and new infrastructure all contributed to the penetration of the dense eastern region. Increased prices for soybeans and cotton beginning in the early 1970s changed the Paraguayan landscape more drastically than any other factor. By the late 1980s, cotton and soybeans accounted for over 1.1 million hectares, or over 40 % of all land in crops and contributed over 60 % of exports. Although government policies favored export crops, the rapid development of cash crops was largely a direct response that Paraguay's free-market economy made to the rise in the international demand for these products.
| Paraguay | Languages | Back to Top |
Paraguay is a bilingual nation; its official languages are Spanish and Guaraní, which is commonly spoken by about 90 % of the people. Guaraní is used in most folk poems and songs and in books and timeicals. see Tupí-Guaranian.
| Paraguay | Legal | Back to Top |
Legal system: based on Argentine codes, Roman law, and French codes; judicial review of legislative acts in Supreme Court of Justice vote: 18 years of age; universal and compulsory up to age 75 administrator branch: chief of state: President Luis GONZALEZ MACCHI (since 28 March 1999); vice president Julio Cesar FRANCO (since NA August 2000); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government head of government: President Luis GONZALEZ MACCHI (since 28 March 1999); vice president Julio Cesar FRANCO (since NA August 2000); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government cabinet: Council of Ministers nominated by the president elections: president and vice president elected on the same ticket by popular vote for five-year terms; election last held 10 May 1998 (next to be held NA May 2003) election results: Raul CUBAS Grau elected president; % of vote - 55.3%; resigned 28 March 1999 note: President Luis GONZALEZ MACCHI, formerly president of the Chamber of Senators, constitutionally succeeded President Raul CUBAS Grau, who resigned after being impeached soon after the assassination of Vice President Luis Maria ARGANA; the successor to ARGANA was decided in an election held in August 2000 Legislative branch: bicameral Congress or Congreso consists of the Chamber of Senators or Camara de Senadores (45 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) and the Chamber of Deputies or Camara de Diputados (80 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) elections: Chamber of Senators - last held 10 May 1998 (next to be held NA May 2003); Chamber of Deputies - last held 10 May 1998 (next to be held NA May 2003) election results: Chamber of Senators - % of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - Colorado Party 25, PLRA 13, PEN 7; Chamber of Deputies - % of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - Colorado Party 45, PLRA 26, PEN 9 Judicial branch: Supreme Court of Justice or Corte Suprema de Justicia (judges appointed on the proposal of the Counsel of Magistrates or Consejo de la Magistratura)
| Paraguay | Life | Back to Top |
For Paraguayans of all social strata and backgrounds, family and kin were the primary focus of an individual's loyalties and identity. In varying degrees of closeness, depending on individual circumstances and social class, the family included godchildren, godparents, and many members of the extended family. Paraguayans felt some reserve toward anyone not able to claim relationship through kinship or marriage. Family and kin--not the community-- were the center of the social universe. An individual could expect assistance from extended kin on an ad hoc basis in times of need. Poorer Paraguayans relied particularly on their mother's relatives; the more prosperous were more even-handed in their dealings with extended kin. The nation's elite buttressed its economic advantages through a web of far-reaching kinship ties. The truly elite family counted among its kindred large landholders, merchants, intellectuals, and military officers. Political allegiances also reflected family loyalties; all available kin were marshalled in support of the individual's political efforts.
Reality was often at odds with the Paraguayan ideal of extended kinship ties. Because the poor migrated often and often had unstable marital unions, relatives typically were well-known only for a generation preceding and following a given individual. The wealthy were more adept at tracing lines of descent through several generations. This was a function of their greater marital stability and their unconditional interest in maintaining the links that tied them to potential inheritance. Relatives in prosperous families often were not as close as their less affluent counterparts, because the well-to-do relied less on relatives for mutual aid and were potential competitors for inheritance.
| Paraguay | organization | Back to Top |
CCC, ECLAC, FAO, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO (correspondent), ITU, LAES, LAIA, Mercosur, NAM (observer), OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, RG, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNMEE, UPU, WCL, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO
| Paraguay | People | Back to Top |
The 1982 census enumerated a population of slightly more than 3 million. Demographers suggested annual growth rates from 2.5 to 2.9 % in the late 1980s. Thus, in mid-1988, estimates of total population ranged from 4 to 4.4 million. Assuming a yearly increase of between 2.5 and 2.9 % until the end of the century, Paraguay would have a population of 5 to 6 million by the year 2000.
The average age at which Paraguayan women entered their first marriage or consensual union began to rise in the 1950s. By the late 1970s, women in Asunción averaged 19.7 years of age at their first marriage; those in other cities were about 8 months younger and those in rural areas were a year younger. The Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare cooperated in the family-planning efforts of a number of international agencies active in the nation and managed several family- planning clinics in Asunción and other parts of the nation. Between 1959 and 1978, the total fertility rate--an estimate of the average number of children a woman will bear during her reproductive years--declined by nearly one-third, to 4.97. Estimates put the rate at 4.6 in the mid-1980s, with 3.4 projected by the turn of the century.
| Paraguay | Provinces | Back to Top |
17 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento) and one capital city; Alto Paraguay, Alto Parana, Amambay, Asuncion (city), Boqueron, Caaguazu, Caazapa, Canindeyu, Central, Concepcion, Cordillera, Guaira, Itapua, Misiones, Neembucu, Paraguari, Presidente Hayes, San Pedro
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| Paraguay | Currency and General Information | Back to Top |
| Paraguay Guarani | United States Dollars |
| 1.00 PYG | 0.000204186 USD |
| 4,897.50 PYG | 1 USD |
| Countries Currency Unit | USD/Unit | Units/USD | |
| DZD | Algeria Dinars | 0.0129554 | 77.1877 |
| USD | United States Dollars | 1.00000 | 1.00000 |
| ARS | Argentina Pesos | 0.341293 | 2.93004 |
| AUD | Australia Dollars | 0.533413 | 1.87472 |
| ATS | Austria Schillings ** | 0.0632609 | 15.8076 |
| BSD | Bahamas Dollars | 1.00000 | 1.00000 |
| BBD | Barbados Dollars | 0.502513 | 1.99000 |
| BEF | Belgium Francs ** | 0.0215788 | 46.3417 |
| BMD | Bermuda Dollars | 1.00000 | 1.00000 |
| BRL | Brazil Reals | 0.430318 | 2.32386 |
| GBP | United Kingdom Pounds | 1.42399 | 0.702251 |
| BGL | Bulgaria Leva | 0.447293 | 2.23567 |
| CAD | Canada Dollars | 0.627606 | 1.59336 |
| CLP | Chile Pesos | 0.00152392 | 656.202 |
| CNY | China Yuan Renminbi | 0.120813 | 8.27726 |
| CYP | Cyprus Pounds | 1.49883 | 0.667186 |
| CZK | Czech Republic Koruny | 0.0281883 | 35.4758 |
| DKK | Denmark Kroner | 0.117155 | 8.53568 |
| XCD | East Caribbean Dollars | 0.370370 | 2.70000 |
| EGP | Egypt Pounds | 0.217271 | 4.60255 |
| EUR | Euro | 0.870489 | 1.14878 |
| FJD | Fiji Dollars | 0.447227 | 2.23600 |
| FIM | Finland Markkaa ** | 0.146406 | 6.83034 |
| FRF | France Francs ** | 0.132705 | 7.53550 |
| DEM | Germany Deutsche Marks ** | 0.445074 | 2.24682 |
| XAU | Gold Ounces | 301.977 | 0.00331151 |
| GRD | Greece Drachmae ** | 0.00255463 | 391.447 |
| HKD | Hong Kong Dollars | 0.128215 | 7.79939 |
| HUF | Hungary Forint | 0.00358416 | 279.006 |
| ISK | Iceland Kronur | 0.00999868 | 100.013 |
| INR | India Rupees | 0.0205205 | 48.7319 |
| IDR | Indonesia Rupiahs | 0.000102055 | 9,798.61 |
| IEP | Ireland Pounds ** | 1.10529 | 0.904738 |
| ILS | Israel New Shekels | 0.212386 | 4.70841 |
| ITL | Italy Lire ** | 0.000449570 | 2,224.35 |
| JMD | Jamaica Dollars | 0.0210041 | 47.6099 |
| JPY | Japan Yen | 0.00754183 | 132.594 |
| JOD | Jordan Dinars | 1.41057 | 0.708931 |
| LBP | Lebanon Pounds | 0.000660937 | 1,513.00 |
| LUF | Luxembourg Francs ** | 0.0215788 | 46.3417 |
| MYR | Malaysia Ringgits | 0.263330 | 3.79751 |
| MXN | Mexico Pesos | 0.111007 | 9.00848 |
| NZD | New Zealand Dollars | 0.440474 | 2.27028 |
| NOK | Norway Kroner | 0.113022 | 8.84780 |
| NLG | Netherlands Guilders ** | 0.395011 | 2.53158 |
| PKR | Pakistan Rupees | 0.0166945 | 59.9000 |
| PHP | Philippines Pesos | 0.0196386 | 50.9202 |
| XPT | Platinum Ounces | 510.962 | 0.00195709 |
| PLN | Poland Zlotych | 0.243488 | 4.10699 |
| PTE | Portugal Escudos ** | 0.00434198 | 230.310 |
| ROL | Romania Lei | 0.0000303433 | 32,956.21 |
| RUR | Russia Rubles | 0.0321342 | 31.1195 |
| SAR | Saudi Arabia Riyals | 0.266668 | 3.74998 |
| XAG | Silver Ounces | 4.65692 | 0.214734 |
| SGD | Singapore Dollars | 0.542540 | 1.84318 |
| SKK | Slovakia Koruny | 0.0208441 | 47.9751 |
| ZAR | South Africa Rand | 0.0883340 | 11.3207 |
| KRW | South Korea Won | 0.000759354 | 1,316.91 |
| ESP | Spain Pesetas ** | 0.00523174 | 191.141 |
| XDR | IMF Special Drawing Rights | 1.24862 | 0.800882 |
| SDD | Sudan Dinars | 0.00384615 | 260.000 |
| SEK | Sweden Kronor | 0.0964189 | 10.3714 |
| CHF | Switzerland Francs | 0.593789 | 1.68410 |
| TWD | Taiwan New Dollars | 0.0286531 | 34.9002 |
| THB | Thailand Baht | 0.0230087 | 43.4619 |
| TTD | Trinidad and Tobago Dollars | 0.163399 | 6.12000 |
| TRL | Turkey Liras | 0.000000763622 | 1,309,549.07 |
| VEB | Venezuela Bolivares | 0.00108696 | 920.000 |
| ZMK | Zambia Kwacha | 0.000239866 | 4,169.00 |
| Paraguay : Geographic coordinates | 23 00 S, 58 00 W |
| Paraguay : Population growth rate | 2.6% |
| Paraguay : Birth rate | 30.88 births/1,000 population |
| Paraguay : Death rate | 4.75 deaths/1,000 population |
| Paraguay : People living with HIV/AIDS | 3,000 |
| Paraguay : Independence | 14 May 1811 |
| Paraguay : National holiday | Independence Day, 14 May |
| Paraguay : Constitution | 20 June 1992 |
| Paraguay : GDP | purchasing power parity - $26.2 billion |
| Paraguay : GDP - per capita | purchasing power parity - $4,750 |
| Paraguay : Electricity - consumption | 1.915 billion kWh |
| Paraguay : Exports | $3.5 billion electricity, soybeans, feed, cotton, meat, edible oils |
| Paraguay : Imports | $3.3 billion road vehicles, consumer goods, tobacco, petroleum products, electrical machinery |
| Paraguay : Telephones | 290,475 |
| Paraguay : Mobile cellular | 510,000 |
| Paraguay : Radio broadcast stations | AM 46, FM 27, shortwave 6 |
| Paraguay : Radios | 925,000 |
| Paraguay : Television broadcast stations | 4 |
| Paraguay : Televisions | 990,000 |
| Paraguay : Internet country code | .py |
| Paraguay : Internet Service Providers (ISPs) | 4 |
| Paraguay : Internet users | 20,000 |
| Paraguay : Railways | 971 km |
| Paraguay : Highways | 25,901 km |
| Paraguay : Waterways | 3,100 km |
| Paraguay : Pipelines | N/A |
| Paraguay : Ports and harbors | Asuncion, Villeta, San Antonio, Encarnacion |
| Paraguay : Merchant marine | 20 ships |
| Paraguay : Airports | 915 |
| Paraguay : Heliports | N/A |
| Paraguay : Military branches | Army, Navy (includes Naval Air and Marines), Air Force |
| Paraguay : Military expenditures | $125 million |