Puebla

Information and facts about the mexican state of Puebla

Population of Puebla

The overall population of the state of Puebla is 5383133 citizens, 2578664 males and 2804469 females.

Age distribution

The population of Puebla is divided into 2246481 minors and 3136652 adults, with 440546 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Puebla

880338 people in Puebla live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 548723 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 51856 and 485858 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 1831171 citizens of Puebla.

Economic situation

In Puebla about 1222966 households are registered.

1207882 of these households are common houses or apartments, 173206 are without floor and about 112350 consist of one room only.

1089427 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 988560 are connected to the public water supply, 1142154 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 166162 households to own a computer, 504660 own a washing machine and 1026906 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Puebla

Besides the 441699 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 72692 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

414052 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 1427186 persons did not finish the school. 650734 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 947052 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 364869 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 7 years.