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Population Overview

 

Population: 11,308,764 (estimate as at July 2004)

Language(s): Spanish, Castilian

Age Structures:

0-14 years old: 2,266,132 [20 percent of the population]

15-64 years old: 7,897,393 [69.8 percent of the population]

65 years and over: 1,199,239 [10.1 percent of the population]

Life expectancy:

Males: 74.77 years

Females: 79.44 years

Universal suffrage: 16 years old

Gender make-up:

Males: 5,641,100

Females: 5,667,664

Ethnicity:

Spanish/mulatto: 60 percent

Mixed-race: 22 percent

African: 11 percent

Chinese: 1 percent

Population Growth Rate: 0.34 percent

Births: 12.18 births/1,000 population

Deaths: 7.17 deaths/1,000 population

Religions:

Catholic: 47 percent

Protestant: 4 percent

Santeria: 2 percent

Literacy Rate: 97 percent

Male: 97.2 percentFemale: 96.9 percent

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