Honduras

As the second poorest country in Central America, suffers from extraordinarily unequal distribution of income, as well as high underemployment. While historically dependent on the export of bananas and coffee, Honduras has diversified its export base to include apparel and automobile wire harnessing. Nearly half of Honduras’s economic activity is directly tied to the US, with exports to the US accounting for 30% of GDP and remittances for another 20%.

 

Population
8,296,693 (July 2012 est.)
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected
Age structure
0-14 years: 36.1% (male 1,530,083/female 1,466,029) 15-24 years: 21.2% (male 898,041/female 863,311) 25-54 years: 34.4% (male 1,435,024/female 1,416,061) 55-64 years: 4.5% (male 169,813/female 199,761) 65 years and over: 3.8% (male 140,775/female 177,795) (2012 est.)
Median age
total: 21.3 years male: 21 years female: 21.7 years (2012 est.)
Population Growth Rate
1.838% (2012 est.)
Birth rate
24.66 births/1,000 population (2012 est.)
Death rate
5.05 deaths/1,000 population (July 2012 est.)
Net migration rate
-1.22 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2012 est.)
Urbanization
urban population: 52% of total population (2010) rate of urbanization: 3.1% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
Major cities – population
TEGUCIGALPA (capital) 1 million (2009)
Sex ratio
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.01 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.79 male(s)/female total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2011 est.)
Infant mortality rate
total: 19.85 deaths/1,000 live births male: 22.47 deaths/1,000 live births female: 17.1 deaths/1,000 live births (2012 est.)
Infant mortality rate
total population: 70.71 years male: 69.03 years female: 72.47 years (2012 est.)