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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