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- (2022 est.) 3,194,000
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What is Puerto Rico?
Puerto Rico, officially Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Spanish Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, is the self-governing island commonwealth of the West Indies, associated with the United States. The easternmost island of the Greater Antilles chain, it lies approximately 50 miles (80 km) east of the Dominican Republic, 40 miles (65 km) west of the Virgin Islands, and 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of the U.
S. state of Florida.
Should Puerto Rico be granted U.S. statehood?
Whether Puerto Rico should be granted U.S. statehood is widely debated. Some argue that the residents of Puerto Rico (who are American citizens) are treated like second-class people and that denying them statehood is a racist and hypocritical partisan ploy by conservatives to withhold voting rights to about 3.1 million voters. Others argue that Puerto Rico was never intended to be a U.S. state and that granting it statehood is a partisan ploy by liberals to unfairly gain more voters for the passage of legislation that the majority of Americans reject and which can’t win approval under existing laws. For more on the statehood debate, visit ProCon.org.
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Puerto Rico, officially Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Spanish Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, self-governing island commonwealth of the West Indies, associated with the United States.
The easternmost island of the Greater Antilles chain, it lies approximately 50 miles (80 km) east of the Dominican Republic, 40 miles (65 km) west of the Virgin Islands, and 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of the U.S. state of Florida. It is situated in the northeastern Caribbean Sea, its northern shore facing the Atlantic Ocean. Two small islands off the east coast, Vieques and Culebra, are administratively parts of Puerto Rico, as is Mona Island to the west. Compared with its Greater Antillean neighbours, Puerto Rico is one-fifth as large as the Dominican Republic, one-third the size of Haiti, and slightly smaller than Jamaica. It is roughly rectangular in shape, extending up to 111 miles (179 km) from east to west and 39 miles (63 km) from north to south. The capital is San Juan.
Puerto Ricans, or puertorriqueños, have an intermingled Spanish, U.S., and Afro-Caribbean culture. The island’s social and economic conditions are generally advanced by Latin American standards, partly because of its ties with the United States (including the presence of U.
S.-owned manufacturing plants and military bases in the commonwealth). Although that relationship has become politically controversial, the vast majority of Puerto Rican voters have continued to favour permanent union with the United States, with a slightly greater number favouring the current commonwealth relationship rather than statehood. A small but persistent minority has advocated independence.
The land
Relief
Puerto Rico is largely composed of mountainous and hilly terrain, with nearly one-fourth of the island covered by steep slopes. The mountains are the easternmost extension of a tightly folded and faulted ridge that extends from the Central American mainland across the northern Caribbean to the Lesser Antilles. Although Puerto Rican relief is relatively low by continental standards, the island sits less than 100 miles (160 km) south of a precipitous depression in Earth’s crust: an extensive submarine feature of the Atlantic known as the Puerto Rico Trench, which descends to more than 5 miles (8 km) below sea level—the Atlantic’s deepest point—at a site northeast of the Dominican Republic.
Powerful tectonic forces that over millions of years have created these features still occasionally cause earthquakes in Puerto Rico.
The island’s highest mountain range, the Cordillera Central, trends east-west and exceeds 3,000 feet (900 metres) in many areas; its slopes are somewhat gentle in the north but rise sharply from the south coast to the loftier peaks, topped at about 4,390 feet (1,338 metres) by Cerro de Punta, the highest point on the island. Near the island’s eastern tip, the partly isolated Sierra de Luquillo rises to 3,494 feet (1,065 metres) at El Yunque Peak.
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The northwestern foothills and lowlands are characterized by karst features, including sinkholes (sumideros), caverns, and eroded mogotes, or haystack hills (pepinos).
There is a continuous but narrow lowland along the north coast, where most people live, and smaller bands along the south and west coasts that also include densely populated areas. The Caguas Basin, in the Grande de Loíza River valley south of San Juan, is the largest of several basins in the mountains that provide level land for settlements and agriculture. The islands of Mona, Vieques, and Culebra are generally hilly but ringed by narrow coastal plains; Vieques rises to 988 feet (301 metres) at Mount Pirata.
Drainage and soils
None of Puerto Rico’s rivers is large enough for navigation, but several northward-flowing rivers are harnessed for municipal water supplies, irrigation, and hydroelectricity, and along the south coast irrigation is essential for agriculture. Puerto Rico’s precipitation mainly falls on the north-facing mountain slopes, so that most of the permanent rivers flow from the interior to the north and west coasts, including the Grande de Loíza, Grande de Arecibo, and Grande de Añasco rivers—all of which are some 40 miles (65 km) long—and La Plata, which extends 46 miles (75 km).
The river courses on the south coast are dry most of the year, carrying water only after rainfall. Pockets of alluvial soils on the south coast are somewhat fertile, but all farmlands there are fertilized. Many formerly cultivated and eroded areas in the mountains have been set aside as forest preserves.
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Climate
Puerto Rico has a tropical climate with little seasonal variation, although local conditions vary according to elevation and exposure to rain-bearing winds. Northeast trade winds bring heavy rainfall to the north coast, while the south coast is in a rain shadow. San Juan receives about 60 inches (1,525 mm) of precipitation per year, whereas El Yunque Peak farther east receives 180 inches (4,570 mm), and Ponce on the south coast receives only 36 inches (914 mm). Rain falls each month of the year, but the heaviest precipitation occurs between May and December. The average daily temperature in the lowlands is about 78 °F (26 °C), but relatively high humidity makes daytime temperatures feel warmer.
Highland temperatures average a few degrees lower. Hurricanes develop in the region between June and November and occasionally traverse the island, including a storm in 1899 that killed about 3,000 Puerto Ricans; other devastating but less lethal hurricanes occurred in 1928, 1932, 1956, 1989, 1998, and 2017.
Plant and animal life
Plant life is abundant and varied. Tropical rainforests cover parts of the north side of the island, and thorn and scrub vegetation predominates on the drier south side. Most of the island’s original vegetation was removed through centuries of agricultural exploitation, particularly during the first two decades of the 20th century, when farm settlers and plantation workers destroyed large tracts of coastal forest and used the lumber for railroad ties and fuel. Although some woodlands have been replanted since the mid-20th century, introduced varieties of trees, shrubs, and grasses now predominate.
The scarlet- and orange-flowered royal poinciana, or flamboyant (Delonix regia), and the African tulip tree (Spathodea campanulata) are among the flowering trees that dot the mountains with patches of vivid colour against a lush green background.
The Caribbean National Forest in the Sierra de Luquillo southeast of San Juan preserves rare species of orchids and the small green Puerto Rican parrot, an endangered species. Puerto Rico has more than 200 species of birds, but land animals are mostly confined to nonpoisonous snakes, lizards, mongooses, and the coquí (Eleutherodactylus portoricensis), a frog whose name is onomatopoeic with its call (“co-kee!”) and which has become a kind of national mascot. Numerous varieties of fish abound in the surrounding waters, but edible and inedible species mingle together, limiting commercial fishing there.
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Puerto Rico is located in the north central Caribbean between the U.
S. Virgin Islands to the east and the island of Hispaniola to the west. It is an archipelago comprised of the main island, the islands of Mona, Monito, and Desecheo in the Mona Passage, Caja de Muertos Island on the south coast, Vieques Island, Culebra Island, and a series of smaller islets, the “Cordillera de Fajardo.”
The land area of Puerto Rico is comprised of coastal lowlands, a mountainous interior, and a karst area in the north. The central mountain chain is oriented east to west, with most of the major rivers flowing toward the northern shore. Other major mountain ranges are located in the northeastern, southeastern and northwestern regions. The island has no natural lakes. The climate is tropical marine with average coastal temperatures of about 26 °C (80°F), slightly cooler in the interior.
Puerto Rico is mostly surrounded by deep water. The Mona Passage, between Puerto Rico and Hispaniola, is more than 1,000 meters (0.6 miles) deep. The Puerto Rico Trench (the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean), off the northern coast, is 8,500 meters (5.
3 miles) deep, and from the southern coast, the ocean bottom descends 5,000 meters (3 miles) to the Venezuelan Basin
Puerto Rico has a diversity of unique terrestrial and marine ecosystems including coastal mangrove forests, seagrass beds, coral reefs, tropical rain forests, tropical dry forests, and coastal plains. The archipelago harbors a diverse flora and fauna with a high level of endemism. The island has a linear coastline of 620 km (385 mi), surrounded by over 5,000 km2 (1930 mi2) of shallow coral reef ecosystems. High population density and land uses have resulted in harmful impacts to the coral reefs, by sedimentation, eutrophication, and pollution, further compounded by algal growth and overfishing. Coral bleaching, diseases, invasive species, and physical damage have also contributed to the declining health of the reefs.
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Coral reef ecosystems of Reserva Natural La Parguera (Puerto Rico): Spatial and temporal patterns in fish and benthic communities (2001-2007). NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS 107
A Baseline Assessment of the Ecological Resources of Jobos Bay, Puerto Rico
An Ecological Characterization of the Marine Resources of Vieques, Puerto Rico. Part I: Historical Data Synthesis
An Ecological Characterization of Vieques, Puerto Rico Part II: Field Studies of Habitats, Nutrients, Contaminants, Fish, and Benthic Communities
Biogeographic Characterization of Essential Fish Habitats Affected by Human Activities in the Coastal Zone of Puerto Rico. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS 115
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program Socioeconomic Monitoring Component Summary Findings for Puerto Rico (2015)
Report on the Status of Marine Protected Areas in Coral Reef Ecosystems of the United States. Volume 1: Marine Protected Areas Managed by U.S. States,Territories, and Commonwealths. NOAA Technical Memorandum CRCP 2 February 2007
Chapter 16 – Status Of Coral Reefs in the U. S. Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico: Florida, Flower Garden Banks, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Navassa. In Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2008. Edited by Clive Wilkinson.
Socioeconomic monitoring guidelines for coastal managers in the Caribbean: Socmon Caribbean
Puertorican Reefs: Research synthesis, present threats and management perspectives
Investigating Coral Reef Ecosystems in Support of NASA’s Earth Science Program
Puerto Rico Water Resources and Environmental Research Institute
State of the Reefs Reports (SOTR)
The State of Coral Reef Ecosystems of the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States: 2008.
The State of Coral Reef Ecosystems of the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States: 2005.
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Puerto Rico’s rapid response contingency plan for coral bleaching, disease outbreaks and other ecological surprises
Plan de manejo estrategico de los arescifes de coral de Puerto Rico
Plan de ordenamiento para el uso de embarcaciones y el establecimiento de boyas de amarre reservas naturales: La Parguera, Bosque Estatal de Guanica, Caja de Muertos, Arrecifes de la Cordillera y Canal Luis Pena
Plan de comunicacion ambiental para la conservacion de los arrecifes de coral en Puerto Rico
Culebra Pilot Community Adaption Plan to Climate Change (Plan Piloto Comunitario de Adaptación al Cambio Climático Municipio de Culebra)
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Guanica Bay Watershed Management Plan – A Pilot Project for Watershed Planning in Puerto Rico
Northeast Ecological Corridor Natural Reserve Integrated Watershed Management Plan: Final Integrated Watershed Management Plan, March 2017
Culebra Community Watershed Action Plan for Water Quality and Coral Reefs
Cabo Rojo Community Watershed Action Plan for Water Quality and Coral Reefs
- Appendix A9: Widespread impacts of land-based source pollution on Southwestern Puerto Rican coral reefs
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Puerto Rican population
Puerto Rico population counter
2 884 979 | Population |
1 387 774 | Male population (48. 1%) |
1 497 205 | Female population (51.9%) |
30 986 | Born this year |
81 | Born today |
20,299 | Died this year |
53 | Died today |
-14 353 | Migrated this year |
-38 | Migrated today |
-3 665 | Population growth this year |
-10 | Population growth today |
20-11-2022 19:22:42
Source : United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs: Population Division .
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- Population history
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Facts about the population of Puerto Rico
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| 8,950 km 2 |
| Population density0165 2 |
| Paul ratio |
| 0.93 (1 387 774 men per 1,497 205 women) |
| Age |
| Population literacy |
| 93.3% |
0. (Number of people calculated by Countrymeters (countrymeters.info)
based on latest data published by UN Population Division)
Puerto Rico population in 2022
In 2022, the population of Puerto Rico will decrease by -4,131 to 2,884,513 at the end of the year. Natural population growth will be positive and will amount to 12,046 people. For the entire year, approximately 34,924 children will be born and 22,878 people will die. If the level of external migration remains at the level of the previous year,
then, due to migration reasons, the population will change by -16,176 people. That is, the total number of people leaving the country (emigrants) will prevail over the number of people
entering the country for the purpose of long-term stay (immigrants).
Puerto Rico Population Change in 2022
Below are the Puerto Rico population change rates we calculated for 2022:
- Birth rate: 96 children per day (3.99 per hour) on average
- Mortality: average 63 per day (2.61 per hour)
- Migration population growth: on average -44 people per day (-1.85 per hour)
The rate of population decline in Puerto Rico in 2022 will be 11 persons daily.
Population of Puerto Rico 2021
At the end of 2021, we estimate the population of Puerto Rico was 2,888,644. In 2021, the population of Puerto Rico decreased by approximately 4,137 people. Considering that the population of Puerto Rico was estimated at 2,892,781 at the beginning of the year, the annual growth was -0.14%.
Here are the main demographics of Puerto Rico for 2021:
- Births: 34,974
- Dead: 22 911 people
- Natural population increase: 12,063 people
- Migration population growth: -16,200 people
- Men: 1,389,537 (As of December 31, 2021)
- Women: 1,499,107 (As of December 31, 2021)
Population growth 1952 – 2022
Puerto Rico population density
According to the United Nations Department of Statistics, the total area of Puerto Rico
is 8 950 square kilometers.
The total area refers to the land area and the area of all water surfaces of the state within the international borders.
Population density is calculated as the ratio of the total population living in a given territory to the total area of this territory.
As of 1 January 2022, the population of Puerto Rico was estimated to be 2,888,644 people.
Thus, the population density of Puerto Rico is 322.8 people per square kilometer.
Religion in Puerto Rico
| Religion | Number of followers | Percentage of total population |
|---|---|---|
| Christianity | 2 789 784 | 96.7 % |
| Non -religious and atheists | 54 815 | |
| Folk beliefs | 0.3% | |
| Others | 8,655 | 0.3% |
Source: Pew Research Center. The Global Religious Landscape
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Number of followers ( 11/20/2022 – Countrymeters.info
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Population distribution by age groups
According to our calculations, as of the beginning of 2022, the population of Puerto Rico had the following age distribution:
| 18.8 | 66.1 | 15.1 |
In absolute numbers:
- 543 989 people under 15 (men:
277 888 / women: 266 102) - 1,909,509 people over 14 and under 65 (men:
920 033 / women: 989 447) - 435 145 people over 64 (men:
187 242 / women: 247 903)
We have prepared a simplified model of the age-sex pyramid, in which only three age groups are presented, the data on which were given above:
| men | women | |||
Note: The scale of the pyramid differs from the absolute values given above because each age group contains a different number of years.
As we can see, the age pyramid of Puerto Rico has a stationary or rejuvenating type.
Such a pyramid is typical for developed countries, which are characterized by a decrease in the birth rate.
Despite this, with relatively low mortality, the population of such countries has a relatively high life expectancy.
Source: Data in this section are based on the latest publications of the United Nations Department of Statistics in the field of demographic and social statistics.
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Dependency ratio
Dependency ratio shows the burden on society and the economy from the non-working population (dependent population).
The non-working-age population refers to the total population under 15 years of age and the population over 64 years of age.
The age of the working-age population (the productive part of the population), respectively, is between 15 and 65 years.
The dependency ratio directly reflects the financial costs of social policy in the state.
For example, with an increase in this coefficient, expenditures on the construction of educational institutions, social protection, healthcare, pension payments, etc.
should be increased.
Total dependency ratio
Total dependency ratio is calculated as the ratio of the dependent part of the population to the able-bodied or productive part of the population.
For Puerto Rico, the total dependency ratio is 51.3%.
This attitude means that Puerto Rico has a relatively high social burden on society.
This means that each working person in Puerto Rico must provide more than 1.5 times the amount of goods and services that he or she would need.
Potential replacement rate
Potential replacement rate (child load ratio) is calculated as the ratio of the population below the working age to the working age population.
The potential replacement rate for Puerto Rico is 28.5%.
Pension load factor
The pension load factor is calculated as the ratio of the population above the working age to the working age population.
The pension burden ratio in Puerto Rico is 22.
8%.
Source: Data in this section are based on the latest publications of the United Nations Department of Statistics in the field of demographic and social statistics
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Life expectancy
Life expectancy is one of the most important demographic indicators.
It shows the average number of years of a person’s life ahead.
That is, the number of years that a person can theoretically live, provided that the current birth and death rates remain unchanged throughout a person’s life.
As a rule, life expectancy is understood as life expectancy at birth, that is, at the age of 0 years.
The average life expectancy for at birth (for both sexes) in Puerto Rico is 78.9 years (years).
This is above the world average life expectancy, which is around 71 years
(according to the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs).
The average life expectancy of men at birth is 75.
3 years (years).
Female life expectancy at birth – 82.7 years (years).
Literacy rate
According to our calculations, in Puerto Rico about 2,188,308 people over the age of 15 can read and write in any language. This is 93.33% of the total adult population.
The adult population in this case refers to all people over 15 years of age.
Accordingly, about 156,317 people are still illiterate.
The adult male literacy rate is 92.78% (1,027,352).
79 923 people are illiterate.
The female adult literacy rate is 93.83% (1,160,956 people).
76 394 people are illiterate.
The youth literacy rate is 99.06% and 99.06% for men and women respectively.
The overall youth literacy rate is 99.06%.
The concept of youth in this case covers the population aged 15 to 24 inclusive.
Source: Puerto Rico population literacy data
based on the latest data published by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (retrieved March 13, 2016)
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Puerto Rico historical population (1951 – 2022)
Data shown as of 1 January of the relevant year.
Puerto Rico historical population
| Year | Population | Population growth | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 2 205 710 | N/A % | |
| 1952 | 2 188 317 | .79 % | |
| 1953 | 2 184 371 | 0.09 % | |
| 1955 | 2 191 189 | 0.31 % | |
| 1956 | 2 201 317 | 0.46 % | |
| 1957 | 2 214 324 | 0.59 % | |
| 1958 | 0.74 % | ||
| 1959 | 2 251 | ||
| 1960 | 1961 | 2 314 476 | 1.53 % |
| 1962 | 2 356 204 | 1. 80 % | 1963 | 1.95 % |
| 1.90 % | |||
| 1965 | 2 488 709 | 1.68 % | |
| 1966 | 2 522 675 | 1967 | |
| 1968 | |||
| 99000 | 2 592 642 | 1970 | 1.19 % |
| 1972 | 2 686 111 | 1.40 % | |
| 1973 | 19000 19000 1974 | 1.67 % | |
| 1975 | 2 820 992 | 1.71 % | |
| 1976 | 2 869 934 | 1.73 % | |
| 1977 | 2 920 470 | 1.76 % | |
| 1978 | 2 971 553 | 1.75 % | |
| 1979 | 3 021 422 | 1. 68 % | 19000 | 3 068 269 | 3 111 265 | 1.40 % |
| 1982 | 3 150 077 | 1.25 % | |
| 1983 | 3 185 242 | 1.12 % | |
| 1984 | 3 217 602 | 1.02 % | |
| 1985 | 0.95 % | ||
| 1986 | 3 277 577 577 | ||
| 1987 | 1988 | 3 332 278 278 | 0.81 % |
| 1989 | 3 359 586 | 0.82 % | |
| 0.86 % | 0.91 % | ||
| 1992 | 3 452 255 | ||
0. 99 % | 1994 | ||
| 1995 | 3 552 375 | 0.91 % | |
| 1996 | 3 581 973 | ||
| 1997 | 3 632 875 | 0.66 % | |
| 1999 | 3 651 767 | 0.52 % | |
| 200009 9000 3 664 368 9000 | 37 | 0.14 % | |
| 2002 | 3 667 290 | -0.06 % | |
| 2003 | 3 658 947 | -0.23 % | 2004 |
| 2005 | 3 636 903 | -0.30 % | |
| 2006 | 3 627 801 | -0.25 % | |
| 2007 | 3 620 031 | -0. 21 % | |
| 2008 | 3 612 163 | -0.22 % | |
| 2009 | 3 602 234 | -0.27 % | 2010 | -0.51 % |
| 2012 | 3 548 152 | -0.61 % | |
| 2013 | 3 520 083 | -0.79 % | |
| 2014 | 3 478 560 | – 1.18% | |
| 2015 | 3 417 293 | -1.76 % | |
| 2016 | 3 332 048 | ||
| 666 | 3 101 127 | -3.78 % | |
| 2 986 065 | -3.71 % | 2020 | -0. 14% |
| 2022 | 2 888 644 | -0.14% |
All data in this table are given as of January 1 of the relevant year.
Population forecast (2020-2100)
| Year | Population | Population growth | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3 650 605 | N/A % | ||
| 2025 | -0.74 % | |||
| 20000 2030 | 3 592 748 | -0.85 % | ||
| 2035 | 3 543 780 | -1.36 % | 2040 | -2.54 % |
| 2050 | 3 281 907 | -3.08 % | ||
| 2055 | 3 168 828 | -3.45 % | 2060 | |
| 2065 | 2 922 959 | -4.13 % | ||
| 2070 | 2 792 182 | -4 | 2 522 946 | -5.08 % |
| 2085 | 2 390 006 | -5. |