The director of National Institute of Statistics (INE), Diego Aboalassured that the Uruguayan population is stagnant based on the preliminary results of the 2023 Census —whose final results will be known in four or five months—, and that the process of demographic transition and decrease in inhabitants is already being experienced, something that was only expected after 2047.
“Logistics and management were the biggest challenges that we face,” Aboal said in dialogue with Radio Montecarlo regarding this year’s Census carried out at the beginning of the year. This census “involved visiting 653 localities, more than 120 thousand rural points and making more than three million visits to achieve obtain the information,” he explained.
The director of the INE highlighted the importance of the census and assured that it allows us to focus on public politics from the results and that also has uses for the private sector. Meanwhile, he assured that the final results will be known in the next four or five months, although he added that “they should not vary too much” with respect to the preliminaries.
A stagnant population
The preliminary results reported that Uruguay It has 3,444,263 inhabitants, of which 52% are women and 48% are men. From these, it was concluded that the Uruguayan population grew by 1% compared to the previous census carried out in 2011. With this, Aboal estimated that Uruguay It is a country with “a relatively stagnant population“; especially, considering that the increase in inhabitants was thanks to immigration.
In that sense, he confirmed that, although it was expected that only in the year 2047 the population would begin to have a decreasing trend, This phenomenon is already being observed; and that, if it had not been for immigration, the results would have been different. “If we had not had the immigration of these years, we would have been below the previous census. Without immigration, the growth rate would have been negative”, he alarmed.
The details of the Uruguayan inhabitants
What refers to the age of the Uruguayan inhabitants An increase was recognized in the percentage of people between the ages of 35 and 64 with 38% compared to 35% in the last census. Furthermore, the age range 65 years and older also perceived an increase of 2%, going from 14% to 16%. The age range that dropped the most was 0 to 14 years old, going from 22% to 18%.
Regarding the geographical data of the population, it was determined that 96% of the population they live in the city, while the remaining 4% resides in the field. In relation to these data, Aboal highlighted that “there is a very important process of decline in those who live in a rural environment.”
Furthermore, it was estimated that 92% of the inhabitants have access to drinking water through pipes, while 99% have access to electricity. For its part, the number of people per household is around 2.5, while, if compared to the 2011 census, there was a drop of 0.3 since the results at that time were 2.8.
Source: Ambito
