1950 Dominican Republic Census
The Third National Census of Population of the Dominican Republic was raised on 6 August 1950, during the presidency of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, after the Decree No.6091 of 20 October 1949.
President Trujillo
This census collected information on sex, occupation, age, fertility, race, religion, marital status, nationality, literacy, ability to vote, and housing.
General results
| General results | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Quantity | % | |||||
| Total population | 2,135,872 | 100 | |||||
| Men | 1,070,742 | 50.13 | |||||
| Women | 1,065,130 | 48.87 | |||||
| Peasants | 76.20 | ||||||
| Urbanites | 23.80 | ||||||
| Regions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North | 1,100,573 | 51.53% | |||||
| South | 795,835 | 37.26% | |||||
| District of Santo Domingo | 239,464 | 11.21% | |||||
| Results on marital status | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marital status | Quantity | % | |||||
| Total population | 2,135,872 | 100.00 | |||||
| Single | 1,432,579 | 67.07 | |||||
| Married | 341,887 | 16.01 | |||||
| Widowed | 44,182 | 2.07 | |||||
| Cohabitating | 310,240 | 14.52 | |||||
| Results on Nationality and Race | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Quantity | % | |||||
| Dominicans | 2,101,218 | 98.4 | |||||
| Foreigners | 34,654 | 1.6 | |||||
| from Haiti | 18,772 | 0.9 | |||||
| from another country | 15,882 | 0.7 | |||||
| Whites | 600,994 | 28.14 | |||||
| Mestizos | 1,289,285 | 60.36 | |||||
| Blacks | 245,032 | 11.47 | |||||
| Yellows | 561 | 0.03 | |||||
| Results on Creed | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Religion | % | ||||||
| Catholic | 98.25 | ||||||
| Protestant | 1.43 | ||||||
| Buddhist | 0.00 | ||||||
| Jewish | 0.02 | ||||||
| Adventist | 0.14 | ||||||
| another | 0.06 | ||||||
| none | 0.09 | ||||||
| not declared | 0.01 | ||||||
| Fertility rate | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zones | Average of Children per mother | ||||||
| Nationwide | 5.0 | ||||||
| Urban | 4.1 | ||||||
| Rural | 5.3 | ||||||
| Language | Total % | Urban % | Rural % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 98.00 | 97.82 | 98.06 |
| French | 1.19 | 0.39 | 1.44 |
| English | 0.57 | 0.96 | 0.45 |
| Arabic | 0.09 | 0.35 | 0.01 |
| Italian | 0.03 | 0.10 | 0.01 |
| another language | 0.12 | 0.35 | 0.04 |
See also
Sources
- National office of the Census (1958). Third National Census of Population, 1950.
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