Indigenous People of El Salvador
All people that live in El Salvador are called Salvadorans. About 90% of Salvadorans are Mestizo, about 9% are White, and about 1% are Amerindian. They are also very diverse when it comes to religion. About 57.1% are Roman catholic, 21.2% are Protestant, 1.9% are Jehova's Witnesses, 1.9% are Mormon, 2.3% have other religions, and 6.8% don't have a religion at all. Also, the main language is Spanish, however, some of the Amerindians speak Nahua.
El Salvador, due to its size and people leaving, only has a population of about 6,071,774 and over a million of them live in the town of El Salvador. Most citizens receive about 12 years of education and a literacy rate of 81.1%, which are all the people above the age of 15. Their birth rate is 17.75 births for every 1,000 and their immigration rate is -8.95 for every 1,000 people, which means about half of all kids born in El Salvador immigrate into another country. They also have a life expectancy of about 73.44 years due to many risks of disease. In El Salvador about 0.8% of adults have AIDS/HIV, which means about 34,000 people are diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. Also, there is a very high risk of infectious diseases, such as bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, typhoid fever, dengue fever, and leptospirosis.
El Salvador, due to its size and people leaving, only has a population of about 6,071,774 and over a million of them live in the town of El Salvador. Most citizens receive about 12 years of education and a literacy rate of 81.1%, which are all the people above the age of 15. Their birth rate is 17.75 births for every 1,000 and their immigration rate is -8.95 for every 1,000 people, which means about half of all kids born in El Salvador immigrate into another country. They also have a life expectancy of about 73.44 years due to many risks of disease. In El Salvador about 0.8% of adults have AIDS/HIV, which means about 34,000 people are diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. Also, there is a very high risk of infectious diseases, such as bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, typhoid fever, dengue fever, and leptospirosis.
