Mapastepec

Information and facts about the municipality of Mapastepec

Location of Mapastepec

The municipality of Mapastepec is located in the Mexican state of Chiapas México

Population of Mapastepec

The overall population of the municipality named Mapastepec is 37945 citizens, 18623 males and 19322 females.

Age distribution

The population of Mapastepec is divided into 17310 minors and 20635 adults, with 3096 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Mapastepec

290 people in Mapastepec live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 129 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 117 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 3820 citizens of Mapastepec.

Economic situation

In Mapastepec about 8904 households are registered.

8721 of these households are common houses or apartments, 1554 are without floor and about 1409 consist of one room only.

7896 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 5686 are connected to the public water supply, 8223 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 200 households to own a computer, 2581 own a washing machine and 6590 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Mapastepec

Besides the 4635 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 808 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

4732 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 11599 persons did not finish the school. 3569 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 3551 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 2337 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 5 years.