El Salvador: El salvador People Profile 2012
2012/03/09
El salvador People Profile 2012
About 90 per cent of the people are mestizos (persons of mixed Spanish and Indian culture). Only about 1 per cent are regarded as Spanish; the rest are Indians. As in most of Central America, the vast majority of the people, especially those in rural areas, have a very low standard of living. A few Salvadorans are extremely wealthy. There is also a small middle class
The population density, 621 persons per square mile (240 per km2), was the highest on the American continents—about nine times that of the United States. This high population density in a country with such limited resources is an underlying cause of many of the nation's social, economic, and political problems.
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