According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects[2][3] the total population was 10,278,345 in 2021, compared to 1,487,000 in 1950 (a fivefold increase in 60 years). The proportion of the population aged below 15 in 2010 was 36.8%, 58.9% were aged between 15 and 65 years of age, and 4.3% were aged 65 years or older.[4]
As of 2014, 60% of Hondurans live below the poverty line.[5] More than 30% of the population is divided between the lower middle and upper middle class, less than 10% are wealthy or belong to the higher social class (most live in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula).
Total population (x 1000)
Proportion aged 0–14 (%)
Proportion aged 15–64 (%)
Proportion aged 65+ (%)
1950
1 487
42.2
53.8
4.0
1955
1 717
44.3
52.3
3.4
1960
2 002
46.1
50.8
3.2
1965
2 353
47.1
49.8
3.1
1970
2 691
47.7
49.2
3.1
1975
3 108
47.5
49.3
3.2
1980
3 636
47.0
49.8
3.2
1985
4 238
46.2
50.6
3.2
1990
4 904
45.5
51.1
3.4
1995
5 592
44.3
52.1
3.6
2000
6 575
42.8
53.5
3.7
2005
7 459
40.6
55.6
3.8
2010
8 317
37.6
58.4
4.0
2015
9 113
33.7
61.9
4.3
2020
9 905
30.6
64.4
5.0
Vital statistics
Registration of vital events is in Honduras not complete. The Population Department of the United Nations prepared the following estimates.
[4]
Period
Live births per year
Deaths per year
Natural change per year
CBR*
CDR*
NC*
TFR*
IMR*
Life expectancy total
Life expectancy for males
Life expectancy for females
1950–1955
84 000
40 000
44 000
52.1
24.7
27.4
7.50
169
41.8
40.5
43.1
1955–1960
95 000
40 000
55 000
51.1
21.5
29.6
7.50
154
44.6
43.0
46.3
1960–1965
108 000
40 000
68 000
49.5
18.3
31.2
7.42
136
48.0
46.3
49.8
1965–1970
122 000
40 000
82 000
48.4
16.0
32.4
7.42
119
51.0
49.2
53.0
1970–1975
133 000
40 000
93 000
45.9
13.7
32.2
7.05
104
54.1
52.1
56.2
1975–1980
150 000
38 000
112 000
44.5
11.4
33.1
6.60
81
57.7
55.6
59.9
1980–1985
166 000
36 000
130 000
42.3
9.2
33.1
6.00
65
61.6
59.4
63.8
1985–1990
180 000
33 000
147 000
39.5
7.3
32.2
5.37
53
65.4
63.2
67.7
1990–1995
195 000
33 000
162 000
37.1
6.3
30.8
4.92
43
67.7
65.4
70.1
1995–2000
198 000
33 000
165 000
33.4
5.5
27.9
4.30
35
69.8
67.5
72.3
2000–2005
197 000
35 000
163 000
31.4
5.0
26.4
3.87
31
71.0
68.6
73.4
2005–2010
201 000
37 000
164 000
27.1
4.7
22.4
3.24
28
72.1
69.7
74.5
2010–2015
23.4
4.5
18.9
2.73
2015–2020
21.8
4.4
17.4
2.49
2020–2025
20.3
4.5
15.8
2.32
2025–2030
18.6
4.6
14.0
2.19
* CBR = crude birth rate (per 1000); CDR = crude death rate (per 1000); NC = natural change (per 1000); IMR = infant mortality rate per 1000 births; TFR = total fertility rate (number of children per woman)
Mestizos (meaning mixed European and Amerindian) have been reported by the CIA World Factbook to be about 87% of the population of Honduras.[13] As in other Latin American countries, the question of racial breakdown of a national population is contentious. Since the beginning of the 20th century at least, Honduras has publicly framed itself as a mestizo nation, along with other Latin American countries such as Guatemala or Mexico, ignoring and at times disparaging both the European component of the population and the surviving Amerindian population that was still regarded as "pure blood". It's well known that many Hondurans of European or almost entirely Amerindian background consider themselves mestizo.[14][15]
Because of social stigmas attached, many Honduran people denied having African ancestry, and after African descended Caribbean workers arrived in Honduras, an active campaign to denigrate all people of African descent, made persons of mixed race anxious to deny any African ancestry. Hence official statistics quite uniformly under-represent those people who have ancestry in favor of a "two race" solution.[14]
The Amerindian population is the largest minority group in Honduras. The largest Amerindian group are the Lencan people. These people have been living in Honduran territory since before the colonization of the Americas, developing their own societies and civilizations. They still have many communities across the country. According to the 2001 census the Amerindian population in Honduras included 381,495 people (6.3% of the total population).[16] With the exception of the Lenca and the Ch'orti' they still keep their language.
Six different Amerindian groups were counted at the 2001 census:
the Lenca (279,507 in 2001;4.6% of the total population) living in the La Paz, Intibucá, and Lempira departments;
the Miskito (51,607 in 2001; 0.8%) living on the northeast coast along the border with Nicaragua.
the Ch'orti' (34,453 in 2001;0.6% of the total population), a Mayan group living in the northwest on the border with Guatemala;
the Tolupan (also called Jicaque, "Xicaque", or Tol; 9,617 in 2001; 0.2% of the total population), living in the reserve of the Montaña de la Flor and parts of the department of Yoro;
the Pech or Paya Indians (3,848 in 2001; 0.1% of the total population) living in a small area in the Olancho department;
Examples of Honduran natives are the many Mayan rules of Copan and other Mayan cities, native leaders as Lempira and Cicumba, and environmental and feminist activist Berta Cáceres.
The Afro-Honduran population consist of people of African descent, Garifuna and Creoles. Most of them are descendants of African people brought by the Spanish and other European colonizers between the 16th and 18th centuries. Many of them came from the west African coast, from places like Angola or Senegambia, where European bought slaves for their colonies, while others came from the other colonies in the Caribbean.
The Garifuna are descendants of Carib, Arawak, and West African people. This ethnic group has its origins in a group from St. Vincent islands in the Caribbean, who came in 1797. At the 2001 census 46,448 people were registered as Garifuna, 0.8% of the total population of Honduras.[16] The Garifuna speak an Arawakan language. They live along the entire Caribbean coastline of Honduras, and in the Bay Islands.
Honduras of European descent or White Hondurans, along with Afro-descendants and Amerindians belong to the minorities of Honduras. Most of the white population are descendants of the Spanish colonists, who mainly came from southern Spain,[citation needed] and inhabit most of the western part of the country. Other populations include descendants of European immigrants who arrived at the beginning of the 20th century. In 2014, there were about 14,000 Hondurans of Italian descent, while there were around 400 Italian citizens.[17] Percentages of whites varied between 4% and 9%,[citation needed] due to the fact that the majority of Hondurans identify themselves as mestizos, regardless of their ethnic and racial category. Which makes it more difficult to study the number of people who fit into the white category in Honduras. In a census a total of 450,000 of people from Honduras have appeared who identify themselves as whites, therefore it gives the percentage is 4%.
However, other studies report that the percentage could rise much more, reaching close to a half a million white people in Honduras, which according to official national sources would make a percentage of between 5% and 6.9% of whites in Hondurans.[citation needed] This is because the majority of whites in Honduras do not identify themselves as Euro-descendants as such, adopting and feeling more identified with the mestizo identity.[citation needed]
Central American president, General Francisco Morazán
General, Florencio Xatruch
Ex-President, Francisco Bertrand
Sir. Salvador Moncada, Honduran pharmacologist
Juan Carlos Fanconi, film director
Ex president, José Simón Azcona del Hoyo
Other ethnicities
Asians
East Asians
There's a small Chinese community in Honduras. A lawyer of the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras (CODEH) stated that the Chinese community in Honduras is rather small. Many of the Chinese are immigrants who arrived from China after the revolution and their descendants.[18]
Hajime Waki, Honduran-japanese singer.
Arabs
Honduras hosts a significant Palestinian community (the vast majority of whom are Christian Arabs).[19] These Arab-Hondurans are sometimes called "Turcos", because they arrived in Honduras using Turkish travel documents, as their homeland was then under the control of the Ottoman Empire. The Palestinians arrived in the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, establishing themselves especially in the city of San Pedro Sula.[20] As mentioned earlier, they are also considered whites in the country's censuses, in total the Arab-Hondurans make up 3% of the Honduran population.
Gallery
Businessman Miguel Facusse, son of immigrants from the Ottoman empire
TV host Salvador Nasralla, son of Palestinian immigrants
^ abDario Euraque, "The Threat of Blackness to the Mestizo Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Honduran Banana Economy, 1920s and 1930s," in Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg, eds. Banana Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas (Duke University Press, 2003), pp. 229–49.
^Dario Euraque, "Antropólogos, archaeólogos, imperialismo y la mayanicación de Honduras, 1890–1940," Revista Historia 45 (2002): 73–103
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