Yucatán

Information and facts about the mexican state of Yucatán

Population of Yucatán

The overall population of the state of Yucatán is 1818948 citizens, 896562 males and 922386 females.

Age distribution

The population of Yucatán is divided into 677389 minors and 1141559 adults, with 163076 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Yucatán

937691 people in Yucatán live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 538355 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 29799 and 499897 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 961210 citizens of Yucatán.

Economic situation

In Yucatán about 442980 households are registered.

435555 of these households are common houses or apartments, 18856 are without floor and about 53448 consist of one room only.

346256 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 395211 are connected to the public water supply, 409864 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 69669 households to own a computer, 277058 own a washing machine and 384392 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Yucatán

Besides the 136182 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 13787 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

112779 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 518315 persons did not finish the school. 236528 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 367052 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 141187 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 8 years.