Nuevo Amatenango

Nuevo Amatenango is located at a height of 860 meters above sea level in the municipality of Amatenango de la Frontera in Chiapas, Mexico. Its geographic location is at latitude: 15.507778 and longitude: -92.109167.

Map of Nuevo Amatenango

Population

Nuevo Amatenango is populated by 1594 people. The total population consists of 116 children aged 0 to 2 years, 109 aged 3 to 5 years, 194 children aged 6 to 11 years, 104 teenagers between 12 and 14 years and 106 aged 15 to 17 years. The number of adult people aged 18 to 24 is 197, in the age group of 25 to 60 years are 615 people and the over 60 years old people are represented by 153 people.

Dividing the overall population of 1594 inhabitants in only three age groups result in: 523 people aged 0 to 14, 965 people aged 15 to 64 and 106 people aged 65 or more years. The male-female ratio is 93.21 men per 100 woman and the birth rate (fertility rate) is 2.79 children per woman.

Indigenous population

In Nuevo Amatenango are known 124 people in censal housholds, where the head or his partner speaks an indigenous language. In the group of children 3 years and older 53 speak an indegenous language, 0 speaking an indigenous language but not spanish and 51 people who do speak both, spanish and an indigenous language. For the age group 5 years and older these numbers are 53, 0 and 51 people.

Migration

While 1532 people were born in the same state, 8 were born in another Mexican state. The total number of people older than 5 years who lived in this state between 2005 and 2010 is 1328, the number of those older than 5 years who lived in 2005 in another state is 4 people.

Disabilities

68 of the 1594 living in Nuevo Amatenango have some form of disability, activity limitation, mental or physical condition.

Mobility impairment: 38
Visual impairment: 14
Communicating: 15
Hearing disability: 9
Physical disability: 5
Learning and thinking: 11
Mental health: 9

A total of 1509 people is free of disabilities. Read about disabilities.

School and education

Analphabetism

In the age group of 8 to 14 years about 6 people do not know read or write and 109 of the group 15 and older are in that same situation.

School

Aged 3 to 5 years: 45 do not visit school
Aged 6 to 11 years: 12 do not visit a school
Aged 12 to 14 years: 7 do not visit a school
Aged 15 to 17 years: 80 do visit a school
Aged 18 to 24 years: 55 do visit a school

15 years and older

117 do not have any school degree or at most preschool.
270 did visit primary school up to the fifth class (incomplete).
193 finished primary school (6 years complete).
57 two years at secondary school at least (incomplete).
173 three years at secondary school (complete).

Adults

Within the group of adults over 18 years 222 do have a scholar degree after having completed secondary school or high school. Like Bachelor, technical schools, university, master or doctor degrees. This group divides into 116 males and 106 females. While the populations medium degree is 6.84, the male population do have a medium degree of 7.18, the female population one of 6.53

Economic characteristics

Economically active

The economically active population, people how are employed or actively seeking employment, is 496 people. 404 of this fraction are male and 92 are female. Economically inactive are about 669 people. The active fraction divides in 487 occupied and 9 unoccupied people.

Social security and public health care

While 1432 people have access to one of the social security systems in Mexico, about 144 individuals are without health insurance.

Access to the services of the Mexican Social Security Institute IMSS have 53 people. 67 people do have the right to access the ISSTE, 24 find their security at ISSSTE and 840 have access to the public health insurance, Seguro Popular.

Marital Status

About 413 people of the age group 12 years and older are unmarried or singles. The number of people who are married or who are living in a conjugal relationship is 651 and there are 106 people who are separated, divorced or widowed.

Religions

The large fraction of 911 people are Roman Catholics, 490 people are Christians, mostly Protestants and similar historic religions. Other religions like Judaism, Islam, New Age, Ethnic religions and even religious movements are preferred by 0 individuals and finally about 179 are without any religion or are atheists.

Homes

The total number of homes, private or not, occupied or not, with or without further information, is 407 and 353 of them are inhabited.

Private homes

The total number of private homes, with more detailed information available, is 407. With 353 occupied private homes and 45 unoccupied private homes. 9 are only for temporal use. As far as information is available the medium number of occupants in private homes is 1594.

Economic status

In Nuevo Amatenango about 18 private homes do not have any of the following goods. 236 own a radio, 279 have a TV, 235 own a fridge, a washing machine is available in 133 private homes and a car is available in 77. In 22 homes a PC is part of the standard of living. A cable telephone is available in 94, an internet connection can be found in 1 and 21 homes do have cellphones.