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The Spaniards brought Christianity to the Dominican Republic, and today about 50% of the population reports as being Catholic. One clear remnant of the Spanish colonial era on the population is the official and widespread use of the Spanish language. The Dominican Republic's population (1961–2003).
This list of Caribbean countries and dependencies by population is sorted by the mid-year normalized demographic projections from the United Nations, [1] the change from the previous year, and the most recent official figure.
The Dominican Republic [a] is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared ...
The population of the Dominican Republic was counted as 10,760,028 – an increase of 1,314,747 (13.9%) over the 2010 census. First results from the 2022 census were released to the public on 10 August 2023, from the Oficina Nacional de Estadística website.
Santo Domingo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanto ðoˈmiŋɡo] meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. [7]
The 2010 Dominican Republic census is the ninth Dominican Republic national census, raised from 1–7 December 2010, during the presidency of Leonel Fernández.This census collected information respect on sex, occupation, age, fertility, marital status, nationality, literacy, ability to vote, and housing.
The National Statistics Office (Spanish: Oficina Nacional de Estadística; ONE) of the Dominican Republic is the government institution in charge of collecting, reviewing, preparing and publishing national statistics on the economy, agricultural production, commerce, industry, finance, environment, society and demography.
According to the 2001 census, 91.2% percent of the population of Dominica is considered Christian, 1.6% has a non-Christian religion and 6.1% has no religion or did not state a religion (1.1%). [ 7 ] Roughly 58% of Christians are Roman Catholics , a reflection of early French influence on the island, and one third are Protestant . [ 9 ]