Item/Year

Description

Total population (2019)

5,048,000 inhabitants

Aging population rate (2019)

11.4%

Crude birth rate (2015-2020)

22.8%

Crude mortality rate (2015-2020)

5.0%

Life expectancy at birth (2015-2020)

± 80 years (83 years men; 77 years women)

Migration rate (2015-2020)

0.8%

Public spending on education, according to % of GDP (2017)

7.4% (the largest in the Central American region)

Public spending on health, according to % of GDP (2015)

8.1% (the largest in the Central American region)

Public social spending, according to % of GDP (2016)

12.3%

Maternal mortality ratio (2017)

27.0 (0/000)

Unemployment rate (2018)

10.3%

Gini’s coefficient (2017)

0.5

Poverty’s proportion (2017)

15.1%

Proportion of extreme poverty (2017)

3.3%

Proportion of people accessing sources of improved water supply (2015)

97.8%

Proportion of population accessing improved basic sanitation settings (2015)

94.5%