Nuevo León

Information and facts about the mexican state of Nuevo León

Population of Nuevo León

The overall population of the state of Nuevo León is 4199292 citizens, 2090673 males and 2108619 females.

Age distribution

The population of Nuevo León is divided into 1488143 minors and 2711149 adults, with 334987 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Nuevo León

48733 people in Nuevo León live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 29538 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 30 and 28604 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 2904194 citizens of Nuevo León.

Economic situation

In Nuevo León about 1031637 households are registered.

1014414 of these households are common houses or apartments, 23049 are without floor and about 35553 consist of one room only.

965016 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 940833 are connected to the public water supply, 976487 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 261981 households to own a computer, 865507 own a washing machine and 964399 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Nuevo León

Besides the 81398 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 23021 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

91507 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 842596 persons did not finish the school. 771221 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 1156710 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 270421 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 9 years.