The total population of Dominica is 74,308 people. The people of Dominica speak the English language. The linguistic diversity of Dominica is nearly homogeneous according to a fractionation scale, which is 0 for Dominica. The average age is about 32.1 years. Life expectancy in Dominica is 75 years. The female fertility rate in Dominica is 2.1. About 25% of Dominica's population is obese. Ethnic diversity is nearly uniform according to a fractionation scale, which is 0.2003 for Dominica. Details of the language, religion, age, gender distribution, and advancement of the people of Dominica can be found in the sections below, as well as the section on education in the country.
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In Dominica, the population density is 96 people per square kilometer (250 per square mile). Based on these statistics, this country is considered sparsely populated. The total population of Dominica is 74,308 people. Dominica has approximately 6,720 foreign immigrants. Immigrants in Dominica make up 0.1 percent of the total number of immigrants in the world. Immigrants in Dominica make up 8.9 percent of the total number of immigrants in the world. Dominica's ethnic diversity is nearly uniform according to a fractionation scale based on ethnicity. Ethnic fractionation (EF) is concerned with the number, size, socioeconomic distribution, and geographic location of different cultural groups, usually within a state or other defined area. Specific cultural characteristics can refer to language, skin color, religion, ethnicity, customs and traditions, history, or other distinctive criteria, alone or in combination. These characteristics are often used for social exclusion and power monopolization. The index of ethnic fractionation in Dominica is 0.2003. This means that the people living in Dominica belong to a small group of ethnic groups that are all related to each other. EF is usually measured as 1 minus the Herfindahl concentration index of ethnolinguistic group proportions, which reflects the probability that two randomly selected individuals from the population belong to different groups. The theoretical maximum of EF of 1 means that each person belongs to a different group. Below are statistics for Dominica on average age and gender distribution at different ages.
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The average age is around 32.1 years. The average age of men is 31.7 years, while the average age of women is 32.6 years.
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The sex ratio, or number of males per female (estimated at birth), is 1.05. It can be further broken down into the following categories: sex ratio under 15 – 1.04; sex ratio from 15 to 64 - 1.05; sex ratio over 64 - 0.76; Overall sex ratio - 1.02. The overall sex ratio differs from the sex ratio estimated at birth. This is due to the fact that some newborns are included in the estimated sex ratio at birth, but die within the first few weeks of their lives and are not included in the overall sex ratio.
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Dominica's majority religion is Christianity, whose adherents make up 94.4% of all believers in the country. Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as set forth in the New Testament. Christianity is the largest religion in the world with over 2.4 billion followers known as Christians. Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior of mankind, whose coming as Christ or Messiah was prophesied in the Old Testament. In addition to Christianity, there are some followers of folk religions in Dominica. Dominica's religious diversity is diverse according to a fractionation scale based on the number of religions in Dominica. Index of religious fractionation in Dominica is 0.4628. This value means that there is one major religion and several other minor faiths in the country.
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