EL SALVADOR

POLITICAL/PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

POPULATION DENSITY Total Population: 6,071,774 Population growth rate : 0.318% San Salvador population : 1,565,202 Percent of the population living in urban areas: 61%

POPULATION PYRAMID

POPULATION STATISTICS Crude birth rate: 20 Crude death rate: 7 Rate Natural Increase: 13 Dependency Ratio: 64% Elderly Dependency Ratio: 11% Youth Dependency Ratio: 52% Life expectancy at birth :73 Infant mortality rate : 20 per 1000 births Sex ratio: 93 The net migration rate: -9 per 1000

HISTORY The ethnic makeup is mestizo 90%, white 9%, Amerindian 1% The Spanish conquistadors severely reduced the Amerindian population Unfair distribution of land. In 1930 there was a massacre of 30,000 mostly Amerindian Salvadorans after a peasant uprising against landowners called “La Matanza.”

SAN SALVADOR

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