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The indigenous population would begin to decline from the mid-16th century, mainly due to the various diseases brought by the Europeans in addition to the growing mestizo population after the founding of towns and cities. According to the 2001 census the Amerindian population in Honduras included 381,495 people (6.3% of the total population). [13]
Honduras had a population of 10,278,345 in 2021. [15] [16] The proportion of the population below the age of 15 in 2010 was 36.8%, 58.9% were between 15 and 65 years old, and 4.3% were 65 years old or older. [107] Since 1975, emigration from Honduras has accelerated as economic migrants and political refugees sought a better life elsewhere.
Honduras has a Human Development Index of 0.624, ranking 138th in the world. In 2022, according to the National Institute of Statistics of Honduras (INE), 73% of the country's population lived in poverty and 53% lived in extreme poverty. The lower class is primarily agriculturally based while wealth is concentrated in the country's urban centers.
General censuses of population and housing (French: Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat (RGPH)) have been carried out in 1950, 1971, 1982, 2003 and 2014. [44] First results of the 2014 census will be published between November and December 2014; [45] final results will be published in November 2015. [46]
The population of the Bay Islands in 2010 was 49,158, according to the INE Population and Housing Census. It is the department with the smallest population in Honduras. 25,182 are women and 23,976 are men. The population density of the department is 208 inhabitants per km 2, with the highest concentrations in Roatán and Utila.
At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Concepción del Sur municipality had a population of 5,486. Of these, 92.25% were Mestizo , 5.00% White , 2.59% Indigenous (2.46% Lenca ) and 0.16% Black or Afro-Honduran .
Immigration to the Republic of Honduras is a complex demographic phenomenon that has been an important source of population growth and cultural change through the centuries throughout much of Honduran history. In the ten months to October 2022, about 120,000 migrants passed through Honduras, most of them being irregular.
Statistics derived from Consult INE online database: Population and Housing Census 2013 [3] Olancho is the largest of all the 18 departments into which Honduras is divided. The department covers a total surface area of 24,057 km² and has an estimated 2015 population of 537,306 inhabitants.