The Demographics of

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

are the condition and overview of Venezuela's peoples.

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topics include basic education,

health Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organ ...

, and population statistics as well as identified racial and

religious affiliations Religious identity is a specific type of identity formation. Particularly, it is the sense of group membership to a religion and the importance of this group membership as it pertains to one's self-concept. Religious identity is not necessarily the ...

. The Venezuelan people comprise a combination of heritages, primarily Native American. The historically present Native American, Spanish colonists, and African slaves have all contributed to varying degrees. Later, waves of European groups (Italians, Spanish, Portuguese and Germans) migrated to Venezuela in the 20th century, influencing many aspects of Venezuelan life, including its culture, language, food, and music though small in number. About 51.6% of the population is mixed (mestizo) white, Amerindian and black in Venezuela, while 46.6% are white or of European ancestry. Another 3.7% is predominantly/fully African, while 2.7% is of predominant/full Amerindian ancestry, and 1.0% other races (mainly Asians). Three Amerindian tribes located in the country are the

Wayuu The Wayuu (also Wayu, Wayúu, Guajiro, Wahiro) are an Amerindian ethnic group of the Guajira Peninsula in northernmost part of Colombia and northwest Venezuela. The Wayuu language is part of the Maipuran (Arawak) language family. Geography ...

, located in the west, in

Zulia State Zulia State ( es, Estado Zulia, ; Wayuu: ''Mma’ipakat Suuria'') is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Maracaibo. As of the 2011 census, it has a population of 3,704,404, the largest population among Venezuela's states. It ...

, and the Timoto-cuicas, also in the west, in

Mérida State Mérida or Merida may refer to: Places *Mérida (state), one of the 23 states which make up Venezuela *Mérida, Mérida, the capital city of the state of Mérida, Venezuela *Merida, Leyte, Philippines, a municipality in the province of Leyte *M� ...

, in the

Andes The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountains (; ) are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range is long, wide (widest between 18°S – 20°S ...

. About 85% of the population live in urban areas in the northern portion of the country and currently resides in the urban conglomerations (

Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in th ...

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Maracaibo ) , motto = "''Muy noble y leal''"(English: "Very noble and loyal") , anthem = , image_map = , mapsize = , map_alt = ...

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

, etc.) that are concentrated in Venezuela's northern coastal mountain strip. Nearly half of Venezuela's geographic area lies south of the

Orinoco River The Orinoco () is one of the longest rivers in South America at . Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers , with 76.3 percent of it in Venezuela and the remainder in Colombia. It is the fourth largest river in the wor ...

; however, this region contains only 5% of the Venezuelan population. estimate puts Venezuela's total population at inhabitants. Additionally, over the past five years, Venezuelan society's general age structure has been trending towards the homologous structure found in Cuba, Western Europe, Japan, and other healthy and rapidly aging societies. Notably, there has been a significant increase in the proportion and gross numbers of elderly Venezuelans (aged 65 and up), as well as a corresponding drop in the total fertility.

Population

According to the total population was in , compared to only 5,482,000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 29.5%, 64.9% was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 5.6% was 65 years or older.Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision

Structure of the population

Structure of the population (01.07.2011) (Data refer to projections based on the 2001 Population Census): Structure of the population (01.07.2013) (Data refer to projections based on the 2001 Population Census):

Vital statistics

Registration of vital events in

is not complete. The Population Department of the United Nations prepared the following estimates.

Births and deaths

Births and deaths:

Other demographic statistics

Demographic statistics according to the World Population Review in 2019. *One birth every 53 seconds *One death every 3 minutes *One net migrant every 45 minutes *Net gain of one person every 1 minute Demographic statistics according to the

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, unless otherwise indicated. ;Total population: :28,644,603 (July 2020 est.) ;Ethnic groups: unspecified Spanish,

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

(13–16%),

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

(1.4%),

Arab The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...

(5%),

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ge ...

(<0.1%), African (3.4%),

indigenous peoples Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...

(2.7%) ;Age structure: Venezuelapop

:''0-14 years:'' 25.66% (male 3,759,280/female 3,591,897) :''15-24 years:'' 16.14% (male 2,348,073/female 2,275,912) :''25-54 years:'' 41.26% (male 5,869,736/female 5,949,082) :''55-64 years:'' 8.76% (male 1,203,430/female 1,305,285) :''65 years and over:'' 8.18% (male 1,069,262/female 1,272,646) (2020 est.) ;Median age: :total: 30 years. Country comparison to the world: 124th :male: 29.4 years :female: 30.7 years (2020 est.) ;Birth rate: :17.9 births/1,000 population (2020 est.) Country comparison to the world: 92nd ;Death rate: :7.5 deaths/1,000 population (2020 est.) Country comparison to the world: 106th ;

Total fertility rate The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if: # she were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through her lifetime # she were t ...

: :2.26 children born/woman (2020 est.) Country comparison to the world: 87th ;Net migration rate: :-3.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2020 est.) Country comparison to the world: 184th ;Population growth rate: :-0.18% (2020 est.) Country comparison to the world: 207th :1.51% (2009 est.). ;Contraceptive prevalence rate: :75% (2010) ;

Dependency ratio The dependency ratio is an age-population ratio of those typically not in the labor force (the ''dependent'' part ages 0 to 14 and 65+) and those typically in the labor force (the ''productive'' part ages 15 to 64). It is used to measure the press ...

s: :total dependency ratio: 52.6 (2015 est.) :youth dependency ratio: 43 (2015 est.) :elderly dependency ratio: 9.5 (2015 est.) :

potential support ratio The potential support ratio (PSR) is the number of people age 15–64 per one older person aged 65 or older. This ratio describes the burden placed on the working population ( unemployment and children are not considered in this measure) by the n ...

: 10.5 (2015 est.) ;Life expectancy at birth: :total population: 76.2 years :male: 73.2 years :female: 79.3 years (2018 est.) ;Urbanization: :urban population: 88.2% of total population (2018) :rate of urbanization: 1.28% annual rate of change (2015–20 est.) ;Languages: Spanish (official), numerous indigenous dialects ;Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2016 est.) :total population: 97.1% :male: 97% :female: 97.2% (2016 est.) ;School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education): :total: 14 years ;Unemployment, youth ages 15–24: :total: 14.6%. Country comparison to the world: 92nd

Sex ratio

Race

According to an autosomal DNA genetic study conducted in 2008 by the University of Brasilia (UNB), the composition of Venezuela's population is: 60.60% of European contribution, 23% of Amerindian contribution and 16.30% of African contribution. 3.6% of Venezuelans are fully black, but Mulattos (black mixed with white) are a much larger proportion, with many Venezuelans having African ancestry.

Religious affiliation

The overwhelming majority of Venezuelans denote themselves as adherents of

Catholicism The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

; this is true nominally, if not in practice. According to the 2011 census, 88.3 percent of the population is Christian, primarily

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: * Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD * Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a let ...

(71%), 17 percent

Protestant Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century agai ...

, and the remaining 0.03 percent

Mormons Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. After Smith's death in 1844, the movement split into sever ...

(

LDS Church The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian Christian church that considers itself to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ. The c ...

). The

Venezuelans Venezuelans ( Spanish: ''venezolanos'') are the citizens identified with the country of Venezuela. This connection may be through citizenship, descent or cultural. For most Venezuelans, many or all of these connections exist and are the source of ...

without religion are 9% (

atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

2%,

agnostic Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. (page 56 in 1967 edition) Another definition provided is the view that "human reason is incapable of providing sufficien ...

or indifferent 6% and doesn't know/doesn't respond 1% ), almost 3% of the population follow other religions (1% of them are of

Santería Santería (), also known as Regla de Ocha, Regla Lucumí, or Lucumí, is an African diasporic religion that developed in Cuba during the late 19th century. It arose through a process of syncretism between the traditional Yoruba religion of We ...

Notes

References

* *Acosta, Maruja. "Urbanizacion y clases sociales en Venezuela." ''Revista Interamericana de Planificacion'' Bogota, 7, No. 26, June 1973, 22–44. *The article contains a statistical reference from the Wikipedia public domain

Mestizos (; ; fem. ) is a term used for racial classification to refer to a person of mixed European and Indigenous American ancestry. In certain regions such as Latin America, it may also refer to people who are culturally European even though thei ...

(2006).

External links

Ethnic Map of Venezuela by census
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