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Population of El Salvador





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El Salvador population consists of several races. The maximum number of El Salvador people belong to the Mestizo group. This group comprise almost 90% of the total El Salvador population.
There is about 9% of the white people who are coming from mostly the Spanish, French or the German people. The native people who are also a part of the total El Salvador population are of mainly two communities, namely, Pipil and Lenca.Some people in this country are of African origin also.

The language that is spoken by almost all people of the El Salvador population is Spanish. English is another language that is also popular among the people. Most of the people in El Salvador belong to the Roman Catholicism. But the religious ethnicity of the El Salvador population consists of a growing Protestant community as well. Other religious trends among the El Salvador people are, Presbyterian, Methodist, Islam etc.

The El Salvador population by the year 2003 was almost 6,515,000 and this placed the country in the 97th position among the other nation in the world. In El Salvador population, there are 93 males or every group of 100 females. The percentage of the people who are under the age of fifteen years is 36% and the percentage of the people among the El Salvador population who are over the age of 65 years, is 5%. The growth rate of the El Salvador population as studied in between 2000 to 2005 was 1.55%. Almost half of the total El Salvador population are urban people.