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Demographics of Paraguay, Data of Our World in Data, year 2022; Number of inhabitants in thousands. Paraguay population density (people per km 2) 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 ...
Paraguay (/ ˈ p ær ə ɡ w aɪ /; Spanish pronunciation: [paɾaˈɣwaj] ⓘ), officially the Republic of Paraguay (Spanish: República del Paraguay; Guarani: Paraguái Tavakuairetã), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest.
Argentina equally corresponds to the second largest population and percentage with 39 million people, followed by Colombia with 18m, Venezuela 13.1m, Chile 9.5m, Peru 5.8m, Bolivia 2m, Paraguay 1.3m and Ecuador with 980 thousand. Roughly 14% of the population in French Guiana is of European ancestry, numbering at 35 thousand people.
As far as ethnicity is concerned, the population of the Southern Cone was largely influenced by immigration from Europe. Whites and mestizo make up 97% of the total population of Argentina, Chile, [9] [10] [11] Uruguay and Southern Brazil. [12] [self-published source?] [13] Mestizos make up 15.8% of the population, being a majority in Paraguay ...
The following article lists sovereign states, dependent territories and some quasi-states according to their proportional ethnic population composition. Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore not comparable across countries.
Map showing countries where the ethnicity or race of people was enumerated in at least one census since 1991 [needs update]. Many countries and national censuses currently enumerate or have previously enumerated their populations by race, ethnicity, nationality, or a combination of these characteristics.
Paraguay is predominantly a bilingual country, as the majority of the population uses Spanish and Guaraní. The Constitution of Paraguay of 1992 established Spanish and Guaraní as official languages. [11] Spanish, an Indo-European language of the Romance branch, is understood by about 90% of the population as a first or second language.
List of largest cities and towns in Paraguay by population This page was last edited on 22 June 2024, at 19:59 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...