Paraguay's population is distributed unevenly throughout the country. The vast majority of the people live in the eastern region, most within 160 kilometres (100 mi.) of Asunción, the capital and largest city faces Argentina to the south and west. The Gran Chaco, which accounts for about 60% of the territory, is home to less than 2% of the population. The Paraguay government encouraged massive settlement of the vast Gran Chaco. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Landscape in the Gran Chaco, Paraguay The Gran Chaco (Quechua chaqu, hunting land), dubbed by some as the last South American frontier, is a sparsely populated, hot and semi-arid lowland region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided between Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and a small portion in...

Ethnically, culturally, and socially, Paraguay has one of the most homogeneous populations in South America. About 65% of the people are of mixed Spanish and Guarani Indian descent. Little trace is left of the original Guarani culture except the language, which is spoken by 90% of the population. About 75% of all Paraguayans also speak Spanish. Guarani and Spanish are official languages, even some whites know Guarani. Look up Homogeneous in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Not completely homogeneous, Paraguay has a history of other settlement esp. in the 20th century: Germans the majority are Mennonites with long-reigned dictator Alfredo Stroessner himself of German ancestry, Japanese with Okinawans, Koreans, ethnic Chinese, Arabs, Southern Europeans, Brazilians and Argentines are among those who have settled in Paraguay. The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations based on the teachings and tradition of Menno Simons. ... Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda, whos name is also spelled Stroessner, Strössner or Strößner, (November 3, 1912, Encarnación - August 16, 2006, Brasilia) served as President of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989. ... This article is about the prefecture. ... Arab diaspora refers to the numbers of Arab immigrants, and their descendants, who voluntarily or as refugees emigrated from their native countries and now reside in non-Arab nations, primarily in Western countries as well as parts of sub-Saharan Africa (West Africa, primarily Sierra Leone, Senegal, and Liberia). ... Southern Europe is a region of the European continent. ...

Paraguay was the site of radical and progressive colonies by political thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A group of socialist Australians in the 1890's at a failed master-planned colony, and Elizabeth Nietzsche, a German racial ideologist and sister of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche came to Paraguay in her attempt to build a colony, Nueva Germania (Neuwe Deutscheland) devoted to a hypothetical pure white "Nordic" society in the 1890's. Socialism is a social and economic system (or the political philosophy advocating such a system) in which the economic means of production are owned and controlled collectively by the people. ... Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) (IPA: ) was a German philosopher. ... The Aryan race is a concept in European culture that was influential in the period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ... Nordic theory (or Nordicism) was a theory of race prevalent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. ...

Demographics of Paraguay, Data of FAO, year 2005 ; Number of inhabitants in thousands.

Population: 5,585,828 (July 2000 est.) Image File history File links File links The following pages link to this file: Demographics of Paraguay ... Image File history File links File links The following pages link to this file: Demographics of Paraguay ... Possible meanings: Faro Airport (Portugal) Federation of Astrobiology Organizations Financial Aid Office Food and Agriculture Organization This page expands a three-character combination which might be any or all of: an abbreviation, an acronym, an initialism, a word in English, or a word in another language. ...

Age structure:
0-14 years: 39% (male 1,109,887; female 1,074,815)
15-64 years: 56% (male 1,574,978; female 1,563,872)
65 years and over: 5% (male 120,662; female 141,614) (2000 est.)

Population growth rate: 2.45% (2006 est.)

Birth rate: 31.27 births/1,000 population (2000 est.)

Death rate: 4.81 deaths/1,000 population (2000 est.)

Net migration rate: -0.09 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2000 est.)

Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.85 male(s)/female
total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2000 est.)

Infant mortality rate: 30.81 deaths/1,000 live births (2000 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 73.68 years
male: 71.22 years
female: 76.27 years (2000 est.)

Total fertility rate: 4.16 children born/woman (2000 est.)

Nationality:
noun: Paraguayan(s)
adjective: Paraguayan

Ethnic groups: mestizo (mixed Spanish and Amerindian) 70%, unmixed white 25%, unmixed Amerindian 3%, Asian (Chinese, Taiwanese and Japanese Okinawan) 2%.

Religions: Roman Catholic 90%, Mennonite 4%, and other Protestant 6%.

Languages: Spanish and Guarani (officials), both widely read and spoken. note: Mennonite German is spoken by 55,000 in the Gran Chaco.

Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 92.1%
male: 93.5%
female: 90.6% (1995 est.)

See also : Paraguay