Venezuela
- Capital
- Caracas
- Population
- 31 m
- Area
- 916,445 km²
- Region
- South America
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- Venezuelan bolívar soberano (Bs.S.)
- Demonym
- Venezuelan
- UN member
- Yes
Gross Domestic Product — the total market value of all goods and services produced in a year, at current prices.
GDP divided by population — a rough measure of average economic output per person.
Years a newborn would live if current mortality patterns held throughout its life.
Gross expenditure on research & development as a share of GDP.
Full-time-equivalent researchers per million people.
Total natural-resource rents (oil, gas, mineral, forest) as a share of GDP.
From the indigenous peoples of the Orinoco and the coast Columbus reached in 1498, through the Spanish 'little Venice' and the Captaincy General of Caracas, to the cradle of South American independence, the petro-state built on Lake Maracaibo oil, and the Bolivarian Revolution and crisis of the present.
Pilot a cinematic, sourced journey through its eras — moment by moment.