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=El Salvador = Natalie

**__Population__**
= **7,066,403 (July 2008 est.)**

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/idbpyrs.pl?cty=ES&out=s&ymax=250&submit=Submit+Query**

Crude Death Rate= 5.53 deaths/1,000 population Rate of Natural Increase= 1.679% (2008 est.) Infant Mortality Rate: total-22.19 deaths/1,000 live births male-25.06 deaths/1,000 live births female- 19.18 deaths/1,000 live births Life Expectancy= -total population- 72.06 years -males= 68.45 years -female: 75.84 years GNI PPP per capita = 2540 Stage of Demographic Transition** = **Stage 3 http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/idbpyrs.pl?cty=ES&out=s&ymax=250&submit=Submit+Query**********
 * Crude Birth Rate= 25.72 births/1,000 population

=__Migration__=

Net Migration Rate- -3.54 migrant(s)/1,000 population Refugees in El Salvador-There currently is 8,900 El Salvadorian refugees. They reside in the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize and Canada.

Major contributions to El Salvadoran migration is insufficient land, limited job opportunities, low wages, and poverty. A major immigration transition was due to population increase and land loss, in 1945 and 1969, which led 7% of the population to migrate to Honduras.

Folk Culture
http://www.traveldocs.com/sv/culture.htm



These El Salvadorian ceramics are examples of cultural and the main manual artistic expression.

Languages
The official language of El Salvador is Spanish. There are four other living languages. Pipil is a well known, but uncommon language of El Salvador. Usually spoken by older adults, this language is almost extinct but it still taught in some schools. Salvadoran Sign Language is a mode of communication for the 150,000 deaf population. Two other popular languages, Kekchi and Lenca, are spoken by some near the Honduaran and Guatamalan borders.

This link gives insight to the diffusion of language in El Salvador. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/181798/El-Salvador/276678/Languages

=Religion= The most prevalent religion is El Salvador is Christianity, mostly Roman Catholics. Other present religions are Judaism, Islam, Jehovah Witnesses and Mormonism. Catholicism began in El Salvador with the invasion of Pedro de Alvarado in the sixteenth century. Today, El Salvador is the 15th largest Catholic nation with 5,399,000 Catholic people and a major 93.50% of the population is baptized Catholic.

There have not been any major religious conflicts, however the country's political and social conflicts in the late 1970s resulted in the further spread of Roman Catholics. Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez's was the archbishop of San Salvador and he heavily influenced the development of Catholic ideologies in Salvadorian culture.

http://www.adherents.com/largecom/com_romcath.html

Ethnic groups in El Salvador are compromised into three main groups. The majority, a 90%, consists of mestizos.
 * __Ethnicity__**