LANGUAGE: Spanish and Guarani (official)
POPULATION:
Total- 3,700,000 (1985)
Annual growth: 3% (111,000) (1980- 85)
Doubling time: 24 yrs.
Urban: 44% (1985) (est. for year 2000: 51%)
Rural: 56%
AGE GROUPS: (1982)
15% less than 5 yrs.
28% from 20 to 39
41% less than 15
14% from 40 to 59
52% less than 20
6% 60 yrs. and over
ETHNIC GROUPS
Assimilation has been so complete that less than 5% is clearly identifiable as either white or Indian.
FAMILY
Marital status, for population 12 yrs. and older: (1982)
Single: 44%
Widowed: 4%
Married: 39%
Separated: 1.5%
Consensually married: 10%
Divorce is illegal.
Female head of household: no data
Fertility rate: 4.7 (1985)
Births out of wedlock: no data
Teenage births: 11% (1982)
Contraception: 39% (1984)
Government’s position on family planning: Has recently adopted the view that the rate of population growth is satisfactory.
HOUSING
Persons per household: 5.2 (1982)
Electricity: 83% without (1982)
Access to safe water: 25% (urban: 46%; rural: 10%) (1983)
Source of water: (1982)
Public reservoir: 11% Well: 81%
River and other: 8%
Toilet facilities: (1982) Flush: 10%
Other: 70%
None: 10%
Building materials: (1982)
Brick: 47%
Wood boards: 30% Esteques (bamboo): 15% Adobe: 6%
Thatched roofs: 51% Dirt Hoor: 59%
SOCIAL INDICATORS
Life expectancy: 66 yrs. (male: 63; female: 68) (1985)
Infant mortality: 4411,000 births (1985)
Crude birth rate: 35/1,000 pop. (1985)
Crude death rate: 7/1,000
Health
Access to health services: 56% (urban: 89%; rural: 44%) (1980- 83)
Births attended by trained health personnel: 22% (1984)
EDUCATION
Literacy: 87% (male: 90%; female: 85%) (1982)
Gross enrollment ratio: (1984)
First level: 101% (completing in 1980-84: 48%)
Second: 31%
Third: 9.7%
Educational attainment, for population 25 yrs. +: (1972)
None: 12%
First level: incomplete: 58% (complete: 10%)
Second: entered: 6% . Third: 2%
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
ECONOMIC ACTIV ITY
Economically active population: 24% (male: 55%; female: 14%) (1982)
Agriculture: 50% act. pop.; 26% of GDP
Mines: 0% act. pop.; 0% of GDP
Industry: 15% act. pop.; 26% of GDP
Services: 35% act. pop.; 48% of GDP
Per capita GNP: 860 U.S.$ (1985)
Population in absolute poverty: (1978) Urban: 19%
Rural: 50%
National currency/per U.S.$ (1985): 240 guarani
Principal resources: Soybeans, cotton
COMMUNICATION
Radio:
Transmitters: ll5 (1979)
Receivers: 340,000-43/1,000 pop. (1983)
Television:
Transmitters: no data
Receivers: 203,000- 26/1,000 pop. (1983)
