Not all are so lucky.
Today being the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, and Mexico being a country whose indigenous population is about 15% of the total, Mexico News Daily brings you 25 facts about that population, with thanks to Animal Político.
1. About 15.7 million Mexicans are indigenous, or 14.9% of the population.
2. Mexico has 62 towns that are considered indigenous.
3. There are 7.6 million indigenous men in the country, or 48.4% of the total.
4. And there are 8.1 million indigenous women, or 51.6% of the total population.
5. The indigenous population inhabits about one-fifth of the total of Mexico’s territory.
6. The states of Oaxaca and Chiapas are where the largest numbers of indigenous people live.
7. Nuevo León, Baja California Sur, Tamaulipas, Aguascalientes and Colima are the states to which most indigenous people migrate.
8. 17.1% of the indigenous population lives in the principal cities.
9. 58.8% reside in indigenous municpalities.
10. 32.1% live in municipalities with an indigenous presence.
11. 9% live in municipalities considered to have a dispersed indigenous population.
12. 26.8% of those aged 15-59 don’t have a single year of basic education.
13. 26.8% have attended primary school but didn’t finish.
14. 25.9% of women are lacking in education.
15. 14.8% of men are lacking the same.
16. 52.6% finished primary school.
17. 81.5% are Catholic.
18. 28% live in homes without running water.
19. 65.9% cook with wood and charcoal.
20. 94.5% live in family homes.
21. 16.2% of homes are headed by women.
22. 25.6% of women participate in economic activities.
23. Women between 12 and 49 have on average 2.2 children.
24. 27.3% of 15-year-olds can neither read nor write.
25. In 1992, Mexico was recognized as a pluricultural nation.
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