Tamaulipas

Information and facts about the mexican state of Tamaulipas

Population of Tamaulipas

The overall population of the state of Tamaulipas is 3024238 citizens, 1493573 males and 1530665 females.

Age distribution

The population of Tamaulipas is divided into 1130408 minors and 1893830 adults, with 245476 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Tamaulipas

42874 people in Tamaulipas live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 20221 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 41 and 19182 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 1958143 citizens of Tamaulipas.

Economic situation

In Tamaulipas about 779846 households are registered.

789420 of these households are common houses or apartments, 39957 are without floor and about 75877 consist of one room only.

742254 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 713271 are connected to the public water supply, 734495 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 136969 households to own a computer, 545874 own a washing machine and 718518 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Tamaulipas

Besides the 92883 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 21377 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

101680 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 742578 persons did not finish the school. 446156 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 728599 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 208174 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 9 years.