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