Some current standards in puerto rico is poverty, health, life expectancy, and literacy rate.
No.
The Puerto Rico sales and use tax rate is 11.5%.
high unemployment
Puerto Rico has the infant mortality rate of 7.73 deaths per 1000 live births.
Statistically-speaking, Puerto Rico is poorer than the Dominican Republic. Even with the help of the US, Puerto Rico maintains a 45% poverty rate, which is a bit higher than the DR's 42%. Now just give Puerto Rico it's independence and it'll quickly turn into Haiti, and they'll be swimming to their neighbors like they did in the early 1900's.
12.12.
the literacy is 548.0744.578 and the birth rate is 5463749
Officially 15% in 2011.
100% - everybody dies eventually.
Soy de Puerto Rico. (I'm from Puerto Rico) or Soy puertorriqueño. (I'm a Puerto Rican)
No, Puerto Rico is an island.Actually Puerto Rico is NOT a continent ; it is an island .