Zacatecas

Information and facts about the mexican state of Zacatecas

Population of Zacatecas

The overall population of the state of Zacatecas is 1367692 citizens, 659333 males and 708359 females.

Age distribution

The population of Zacatecas is divided into 551024 minors and 816668 adults, with 134025 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Zacatecas

7031 people in Zacatecas live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 3949 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 92 and 3589 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 577422 citizens of Zacatecas.

Economic situation

In Zacatecas about 330371 households are registered.

325404 of these households are common houses or apartments, 19686 are without floor and about 10919 consist of one room only.

280681 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 295913 are connected to the public water supply, 313920 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 49343 households to own a computer, 234990 own a washing machine and 304096 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Zacatecas

Besides the 65289 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 15157 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

68448 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 447838 persons did not finish the school. 175930 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 205957 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 84651 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 7 years.