Demographics of Paraguay

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Demographics of Paraguay
Paraguay single age population pyramid 2020.png
Population pyramid of Paraguay in 2020
Population6,109,644 (2022 census) [1]
Growth rate0.89% (2022 census)
Birth rate16.32 births/1,000 population (2022 est.)
Death rate4.87 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.)
Life expectancy78.37 years
Fertility rate2.4 children born/woman (2022 census)
Infant mortality rate23.21 deaths/1,000 live births
Net migration rate-0.07 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2022 est.)
Age structure
0–14 years24.3%
15–64 years66.9%
65 and over8.8%
Nationality
Nationality Paraguayan
Major ethnic
Minor ethnic
Language
Official Spanish and Guarani
Spoken Languages of Paraguay
Historical population
YearPop.±%
1950 1,328,452    
1962 1,819,103+36.9%
1972 2,357,955+29.6%
1982 3,029,830+28.5%
1992 4,152,588+37.1%
2002 5,163,198+24.3%
2012 6,461,041+25.1%
2022 6,109,644−5.4%
Source: [4]

Demographic features of the population of Paraguay include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

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Characteristics

The Paraguay's predominant ancestry is European, which represents a large part of the population, mainly descendants of Spaniards and Italians (who have contributed to repopulating the country after the Triple Alliance War) but there are also a large number of people of German ancestry, due to the German Mennonites (majority in the western part of the territory). There are 17 Mennonite colonies, only in the Paraguayan Chaco. It is one of the Latin American countries with the least indigenous traits (due to the fact that the traditional Paraguayan population; the Spanish mixture of Guaraní, had been annihilated by the war in 1870, which is why the country had to repopulate by resorting to immigration, especially the Italian in that country.) Taking into account the high fertility, Paraguay registers a majority young population structure. Of every ten people, four are under the age of 15 (2,339,000) and the population aged 15 to 29 represents a quarter of the total population. According to the Census (ECLAC, 1998), the population of indigenous nature that year was 29,482 people, that is, about 0.7% of the national population. There is a low percentage of people with distinctively Amerindian features and the absence of people with African features. The majority of the population is made up of mestizos who are descendants of the original population, the Guarani, and Europeans.

Paraguay Embassy in Germany [5]

Paraguay's population is distributed unevenly through the country. The vast majority of the people live in the eastern region, most within 160 kilometres (99 mi) of Asunción, the capital and largest city, which borders on Argentina to the south and west. The Gran Chaco in the north-west, which accounts for about 60% of Paraguayan territory, is home to less than 2% of the population. The Paraguay government encouraged[ when? ] massive settlement of the vast Gran Chaco.

Ethnically, culturally, and socially, Paraguay has one of the most homogeneous populations in South America. About 75% of the people are mestizo (mixed Spanish and Guaraní Native American descent), 20% are Whites, and the rest are small minorities of Indigenous or Afro Paraguayan origin. [6] Little trace is left of the original Guaraní culture except the language, which is spoken by 90% of the population. About 75% of all Paraguayans also speak Spanish. Guaraní and Spanish are official languages.

Paraguay has a history of foreign settlement, especially in the 20th century: Germans (the majority are Mennonites) with long-time Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner (President, 1954-1989) himself of German ancestry; Italians (around 40% of the total Paraguayan population is of full or partial Italian descent); [7] [8] [9] Japanese with Okinawans; Koreans; Chinese; Arabs, Ukrainians; Poles; Southern Europeans; Jews; Brazilians; and Argentines are among those who have settled in Paraguay. There are also an estimated 234,000 Afro-Paraguayans, or 4% of the population. [10]

European and Middle Eastern immigrants began making their way to Paraguay in the decades following the Paraguayan War of 1864-1870 (from 1870 onward). Only 28,000 men and 200,000 women had survived the war, the reason why Paraguay had since then a high rate of illegitimate births. The government pursued a pro-immigration policy in an effort to increase population. Government records indicated that approximately 12,000 immigrants entered the port of Asunción between 1882 and 1907, of whom almost 9,000 came from Italy, Germany, France, and Spain. Migrants also arrived from neighboring Spanish American countries, especially Argentina. The immigrant ethnic groups kept their cultures and languages to some extent, especially Brazilians - known as "Brasiguayos". [11] [12]

Official records gave an imprecise sense of the number of Brazilians who came to the country. According to the 1982 census, 99,000 Brazilians resided in Paraguay. Most[ quantify ] analysts discounted this figure, however, and contended that between 300,000 and 350,000 Brazilians lived in the eastern border region.

Analysts also rejected government figures on the number of immigrants from South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The 1982 census reported that there were 2,700 Koreans in Paraguay, along with another 1,100 non-Japanese or non-Korean Asian immigrants. Virtually all Koreans and Chinese lived in Ciudad del Este or Asunción and played a major role in the importation and sale of electronic goods manufactured in Asia.

Paraguay became the site of radical and progressive colonies inspired by political thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A group of radical socialist Australians in the 1890s voluntarily went to create a failed master-planned community, known as Nueva (New) Australia (1893 -1897); and Elisabeth Nietzsche, a German racial ideologist and sister of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche came to Paraguay in her attempt to build a colony, Nueva Germania (Neues Deutschland) (founded 1886) devoted to a hypothetical pure white "Nordic" society.

A 2022 census found that Paraguay's population shrank as a production of migration and having smaller families, as well as better data integrity, resulting in a loss of over one million. [13]

Population

Demographics of Paraguay, Data of Our World in Data, year 2022; Number of inhabitants in thousands. Paraguay-demography.png
Demographics of Paraguay, Data of Our World in Data, year 2022; Number of inhabitants in thousands.
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Paraguay population density (people per km )

According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects [14] [15] the total population was 6,703,799 in 2021, compared to only 1,473,000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 33.5%, 61.4% was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 5.1% was 65 years or older . [16]

YearTotal population
( × 1000)
Population percentage in age bracket
0–1415–6465+
19501 473
47.0%
50.1%
2.9%
19551 674
47.5%
49.5%
3.0%
19601 906
47.8%
49.0%
3.2%
19652 176
47.5%
49.2%
3.3%
19702 483
46.1%
50.4%
3.5%
19752 802
44.1%
52.3%
3.6%
19803 195
42.5%
53.8%
3.8%
19853 698
41.6%
54.5%
3.9%
19904 244
41.4%
54.6%
4.0%
19954 795
40.3%
55.4%
4.3%
20005 323
38.5%
57.2%
4.4%
20055 824
35.5%
59.8%
4.7%
20106 248
32.9%
61.8%
5.2%
20156 689
30.4%
63.7%
5.9%
20207 133
28.9%
64.3%
6.8%

Structure of the population

Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (01.VII.2013) (Projections based on the 2002 Population Census.): [17]
Age GroupMaleFemaleTotal%
Total3 426 5083 356 8676 783 374100
0–4377 989363 561741 55010.93
5–9372 142358 751730 89310.77
10–14364 020351 350715 36910.55
15–19351 038339 645690 68310.18
20–24331 748322 813654 5619.65
25–29303 291297 128600 4198.85
30–34257 335252 770510 1047.52
35–39203 351200 858404 2095.96
40–44173 976173 202347 1775.12
45–49160 044158 383318 4274.69
50–54140 818137 891278 7094.11
55–59120 438116 493236 9313.49
60–6495 42492 423187 8482.77
65–6967 62367 777135 4012.00
70–7447 77850 65398 4311.45
75–7931 69436 08567 7791.00
80+27 80037 08264 8820.96
Age groupMaleFemaleTotalPercent
0–141 114 1511 073 6622 187 81332.25
15–642 312 3572 091 6084 403 96564.92
65+174 895191 597366 4925.40
Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (01.VII.2021) (Estimates or projections considering also the results of the 2012 Population Census.): [18]
Age GroupMaleFemaleTotal%
Total3 702 2813 650 7587 353 038100
0–4360 793346 324707 1189.62
5–9357 301343 724701 0259.53
10–14352 757340 126692 8839.42
15–19344 522332 510677 0329.21
20–24334 496322 993657 4898.94
25–29318 925309 559628 4848.55
30–34300 116293 132593 2478.07
35–39266 102262 734528 8367.19
40–44214 813217 042431 8555.87
45–49185 967188 348374 3155.09
50–54164 693166 184330 8774.50
55–59141 237142 195283 4323.85
60–64120 322119 145239 4673.26
65-6994 45094 556189 0062.57
70-7463 85566 647130 5021.77
75-7941 07046 12087 1911.19
80+40 86359 417100 2801.36
Age groupMaleFemaleTotalPercent
0–141 070 8511 030 1742 101 02528.57
15–642 391 1922 353 8444 745 03664.53
65+240 238266 740506 9786.89

Vital statistics

Registration of vital events in Paraguay are not complete. The Population Department of the United Nations prepared the following estimates. [16]

Periodper yearper 1000total fertility rate (number of children per woman)infant mortality rate per 1000 birthsLife expectancy
live birthsdeathsnatural changecrude birth ratecrude death ratenatural changetotalmalesfemales
1950–195570,00014,00056,00044.38.935.46.507362.660.564.6
1955–196076,00015,00061,00042.78.634.16.507063.261.165.1
1960–196584,00016,00068,00041.38.033.36.456264.362.366.3
1965–197092,00018,00074,00039.57.631.86.155965.063.066.9
1970–197594,00019,00075,00035.67.128.65.355365.963.768.0
1975–1980108,00021,00087,00036.16.929.25.205166.564.368.7
1980–1985129,00024,000105,00037.36.830.45.204967.064.969.3
1985–1990139,00026,000113,00034.96.628.34.774767.665.469.9
1990–1995145,00028,000117,00032.06.225.84.314368.566.370.8
1995–2000148,00030,000118,00029.35.923.33.883969.467.271.7
2000–2005151,00032,000119,00025.15.419.73.243670.768.772.9
2005–2010153,00034,000119,00023.45.418.02.893271.769.773.9
2010–2015161,00038,000123,00021.75.416.32.603072.270.074.5
2015–2020165,00043,000122,00020.75.515.22.452872.770.475.1
2020–202519.45.713.72.33
2025–203018.06.012.02.23

Estimated births and deaths

Year [19] PopulationLive birthsDeathsNatural increaseCrude birth rateCrude death rateRate of natural increaseTFR
20096,168,757103,30918,75884,55116.73.013.7
20106,265,877100,58421,28179,30316.13.412.7
20116,363,276111,94522,65289,29317.63.614.0
20126,461,041118,54922,80795,75218.33.514.8
20136,559,027114,61924,19390,42617.53.713.8
20146,657,232116,59222,62593,96717.53.414.1
20156,755,756132,24124,885107,35619.63.715.9
20166,854,536128,11727,243100,87418.74.014.7
20176,953,646129,90326,404103,49918.73.814.9
20187,052,983123,18729,13994,04817.54.113.4
20197,152,703117,34732,36284,98516.44.511.9
2020 [20] 7,252,67295,64936,46659,18313.25.08.22.41
2021 [21] 7,353,038112,96650,89863,31415.46.98.5
2022 (c)6,109,644 [22] 111,99238,35673,63618.36.411.9

(c) = 2022 census preliminary results.

Total fertility rate

[24] Total Fertility Rate (Wanted Fertility Rate):

YearTFR (Total)
19904.6
1995/964.3
19984.3
20042.9
20082,5 (2,2)

Ethnic groups

Ethnic groups of Paraguay [6]
Ethnic groupspercent
Mestizo
75%
White
20%
Afro-Paraguayans
0.13%
Indigenous
1.7%

Religions

Religions of Paraguay [6]
Religionspercent
Roman Catholic
89.6%
Protestant
6.2%
Other or Unspecified
1.9%
Other Christian
1.1%
None
1.1%

Languages

Languages of Paraguay
Languagespercent
Guaraní
90%
Spanish
87%

CIA World Factbook demographic statistics

The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated. [25] [26]

Age structure

Dependency ratios

Median age

Population growth rate

Sex ratio

HIV/AIDS – adult prevalence rate

0.3% (2020 est.)

HIV/AIDS – people living with HIV/AIDS

19,000 (2020 est.)

HIV/AIDS – deaths

<500 (2020 est.)

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