A large national census was carried out in 2022 to update statistical data of the demographics of Paraguay. It was a day not without controversy due to the procedure used, of which a preview of data has been made in 2023. We present you the most relevant ones that you should know as a foreigner who wants to settle in Paraguay, and If you want to see the full document, you can click here.

Growth of private homes

It is observed the stable and sustainable growth since 1950, which is an unequivocal sign of the gradual growth of Paraguay.

Average number of people per household

LParaguayan families increasingly have fewer children, since the figure was 6,5 per woman in 1950 to an average of 2,5 in 2016. However, those 2,5 are above the 1,23 children per woman in Spain in 2020.

Population structure by age groups and demographics of Paraguay

The reality of Paraguay is a young country, produced by the war conflicts that occurred several decades ago. This is how the population of the 15-65 age group is the largest, with what this implies for the country. Quite the opposite of that in Spain, where the population ages progressively, giving rise to an inverted population pyramid.

Paraguay and its 6 million inhabitants

If you had read that Paraguay was a country of 7,5 million inhabitants, you had read correctly, because it was the most disseminated data until now. But the reality of the Census tells us that we are just over 6 million, with an almost 50% distribution between men and women.

Asunción capital leads the population

Asunción is the city with the most population with more than 477.000 people, while Central Department, which includes Asunción and Greater Asunción (the metropolitan area) has more than 1,8 million people, that is, almost 1/3 of the country's total population.

indigenous census

An indigenous census was also carried out, which showed a total of 140.000 people who declared themselves to belong to one of the 19 towns.

You have all the information from this indigenous population census in this link, where the census is also analyzed by town and language family, a really curious fact.