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6.9 Mexico<br />

Population: 108,700,891 (July 2007 est.)<br />

Ethnic groups: Mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%, white 9%, o<strong>the</strong>r 1%<br />

Religions: Roman Catholic 76.5%, Protestant 6.3% (Pentecostal 1.4%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.1%, o<strong>the</strong>r 3.8%), o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

0.3%, unspecified 13.8%, none 3.1% (2000 census)<br />

Languages: Spanish, various Mayan, Nahuatl, and o<strong>the</strong>r regional indigenous languages<br />

6.10 Nicaragua<br />

Population: 5,675,356 (July 2007 est.)<br />

Ethnic groups: Mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 69%, white 17%, black<br />

9%, Amerindian 5%<br />

Religions: Roman Catholic 72.9%, Evangelical 15.1%, Moravian 1.5%,<br />

Episcopal 0.1%, o<strong>the</strong>r 1.9%, none 8.5% (1995 census)<br />

Languages: Spanish 97.5% (<strong>of</strong>ficial), Miskito 1.7%, o<strong>the</strong>r 0.8% (1995 census)<br />

note: English and indigenous languages on Atlantic coast<br />

The Project was under <strong>the</strong> auspices <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Swedish National Association <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Deaf</strong> (SDR) and <strong>the</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Deaf</strong> (WFD), <strong>Page</strong> <strong>No</strong> 31<br />

and funded by <strong>the</strong> Swedish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Sida) and Swedish Organisations’ <strong>of</strong> Disabled Persons<br />

International Aid Association (Shia).

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