EL SALVADOR POLITICALPHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY POPULATION DENSITY Total Population

POPULATION DENSITY • Total Population: 6, 071, 774 • Population growth rate: 0. 318%

POPULATION STATISTICS • • • Crude birth rate: 20 Crude death rate: 7 Rate

HISTORY • The ethnic makeup is mestizo 90%, white 9%, Amerindian 1% • The

REFERENCES • 1. Barry, Tom. The Central American Fact Book. Grove Press: New York,

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EL SALVADOR

POLITICAL/PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

POPULATION DENSITY • Total Population: 6, 071, 774 • Population growth rate: 0. 318% • San Salvador population: 1, 565, 202 • Percent of the population living in urban areas: 61%

POPULATION PYRAMID

POPULATION STATISTICS • • • Crude birth rate: 20 Crude death rate: 7 Rate Natural Increase: 13 Dependency Ratio: 64% Elderly Dependency Ratio: 11% Youth Dependency Ratio: 52% Life expectancy at birth: 73 Infant mortality rate: 20 per 1000 births Sex ratio: 93 The net migration rate: -9 per 1000

HISTORY • The ethnic makeup is mestizo 90%, white 9%, Amerindian 1% • The Spanish conquistadors severely reduced the Amerindian population • Unfair distribution of land. • In 1930 there was a massacre of 30, 000 mostly Amerindian Salvadorans after a peasant uprising against landowners called “La Matanza. ”

SAN SALVADOR

REFERENCES • 1. Barry, Tom. The Central American Fact Book. Grove Press: New York, 1986. • 2. CIA World Fact Book <https: //www. cia. gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/es. html>. • 3. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). “Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean. ” 2011. <http: //www. eclac. cl/publicaciones/xml/2/43992/2011_El_Salvador. pdf>. • 4. Geohive Website <http: //www. geohive. com/cntry/elsalvador. aspx>. • 5. Global Administrative Areas Website <http: //www. gadm. org/El_Salvador>. • 6. Library of Congress Country Studies <http: //lcweb 2. loc. gov/frd/cs/svtoc. html>. • 7. Population Reference Bureau World Population Data Sheet <http: //www. prb. org/pdf 11/2011 populationdata-sheet_eng. pdf>. • • 8. US Census Bureau International Database <http: //www. census. gov/population/international/data/idb/country. php>. • 9. US Department of State <http: //www. state. gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2033. htm>. • 10. World Bank Data <http: //data. worldbank. org/country >.