• Area: 406,750 km
• Population: 6,009,143 inhabitants.
• Population growth rate: 1.9%
• Capital: Asunción
• Ethnic Groups: 95% mestizo (mixed Spanish and Indigenous) and 5% descendants of Europeans and other indigenous groups.
• Languages: Spanish (for business and government) and Guarani (spoken by 90% of the population).
• Religion: Catholic 90%, 10% Mennonite and other Protestant denominations.
• Life expectancy: 75.1 years
• Unemployment rate: 11.1% of economically active (EAP)
• GDP per capita: U.S. $ 2,116 (2007)
• Cumulative inflation rate: 7.5% (2007)
• Articles of export: soybeans, food, cotton, beef, edible oils, electricity, wood, leather.
• Major trading partners: Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, United States and China.
• Natural resources: hydropower, timber, iron and other minerals, manganese, limestone.

Sources: ABC Color Briefcase macroeconomic data from the Central Bank of Paraguay and the Dirección General de Estadísticas Encuestas y Censos (General Direction of statistics, survey and census. Index Mundi: http://www.indexmundi.com/es/paraguay/tasa_de_crecimiento.html 2008 est.