Poverty is also more concentrated in the indigenous population (29 per cent) compared to the non indigenous population (15 per cent).

7.6 of the population is other Mayan , 0.4 is indigenous non Mayan, making the indigenous community in Guatemala about 40.5 of the population.

They united and coalesced with the indigenous population.

In 2000 2004, the rate of HIV diagnosis was 4.7 per 100,000 in the non indigenous population, against 5.2 per 100,000 in the indigenous population.

Based on the ethnic group, there has been a reduction of 55 per cent in the non indigenous population and 36 per cent in the indigenous population.

In 1991 98.3 of the population was indigenous and 17.9 of the population were over 65.

Mexico is home to a large number of indigenous languages, spoken by some 5.4 of the population 1.2 of the population are monolingual speakers of an indigenous language.

In 1909, the indigenous population was estimated at about 190,000 the foreign population at 773 (474 white).

The Falkland Islands, unlike Argentina, had never had an indigenous population.

The proportion of newly diagnosed HIV cases in women has been two to four times higher in the Indigenous population than in the non indigenous population over the last six years.

The report states that violence has increased, especially against the indigenous population.

For the most part, indigenous peoples are virtually invisible in the formal education systems of the urban and rural non indigenous population.

The situation is markedly worse among rural populations, women and the indigenous population.

In the same period, Indigenous peoples comprised 2.4 per cent of Australia's population.

The total indigenous population of the country is estimated at about 500 thousand people (2.8 of the total), distributed among 40 indigenous peoples.

According to the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples, there were 10.1 million Mexicans who spoke an indigenous language and claimed indigenous heritage, representing 9.8 of the total population.

Most of the indigenous population live in the country's flatlands in the south and east.

Our policies are geared towards the most vulnerable, including the rural population and indigenous peoples.

It has also been reported that indigenous women constitute the fastest growing prison population (art.

Of the indigenous population 91 per cent speak at least one of the 80 indigenous languages of the country with an average of 2,500 speakers each.

In 2004, the proportion of newly diagnosed indigenous HIV cases in women (27.3 per cent) was higher than for the non indigenous population (11 per cent).

These actions took place in 11 departments and targeted the civilian population, in many cases indigenous communities.

The rate of AIDS diagnosis in the indigenous population increased from 1.5 per 100,000 in 2000 to 3.6 per 100,000 in 2004, whereas the rate of AIDS diagnosis in the non indigenous population continued to decline, to 0.8 per 100,000 in 2004.

The indigenous ethnic group in Anambra state are the Igbo (98 of population) and a small population of Igala (2 of the population) who live mainly in the north western part of the state.

Mr. Begg (New Zealand) noted that his country's population included a strong and vibrant indigenous Maori population, whose language and culture had been revitalized over recent years.

It is important to note that the inclusion of indigenous languages in school curricula has not been enough to close the gap that exists between the academic performance of indigenous students and that of the non indigenous population.

Among indigenous HIV cases in 2004, a higher proportion of HIV diagnoses were attributed to injecting drug use (20.0 per cent) compared with the non indigenous population (4.2 per cent).

A minority of the population practice religions indigenous to Nigeria, such as those native to Igbo and Yoruba peoples.

Thirty nine per cent of the indigenous population between the ages of 5 and 24 does not attend school.

Policies are aimed at the most vulnerable groups, including the rural population and, within this group, our indigenous peoples.

Public works financed by the bank are accused of concealing the impacts on the environment, the indigenous population, and workers.

Today, less than 1 of the population can be identified as fully indigenous on the basis of language and customs.

During the same period, among the indigenous population, the decline was merely from 71 per cent to 70 per cent.

Mr. Artucio Rodríguez (Uruguay) said that his Government had given increasing attention to the country's indigenous population in recent years.

The educational needs of indigenous communities are generally given low priority in Governments' education plans, meaning that these communities receive fewer material and institutional resources per student than does the non indigenous urban population.

Ismail Haniyeh s government might collapse, but Hamas would remain a powerful indigenous Palestinian organization around which the population would certainly rally.

Europeans carried diseases to the Americas in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that destroyed up to 95 of the indigenous population.

Badawi's work has also addressed the ongoing exchange between some indigenous communities in Brazil and the country's rapidly growing urban population.

Members of other religions (Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Bahá'í, and members of traditional indigenous religions) comprise the remaining 10 of the population.

Many of the indigenous peoples were absorbed into the mestizo population, but the remaining 700,000 currently represent over 85 distinct cultures.

Moreover, in depth studies were promoted and special studies on vulnerable population groups, including indigenous peoples and ethnic groups, were undertaken.

In a region with a strong indigenous past but a scattered and isolated present, Bolivia is, alongside Guatemala, perhaps the only country in Latin America where indigenous peoples make up a majority of the population.

In Mexico the Government provides assistance to 1,145,000 pupils from 47 indigenous groups in the form of 50,300 teachers in 19,000 educational centres through its bilingual and intercultural education programme the academic performance of indigenous pupils, however, falls far below that of the non indigenous population.

Following the arrival of Europeans, La Hispaniola's indigenous population suffered near extinction, in possibly the worst case of depopulation in the Americas.

Linguistically Vanuatu is the world's most diverse nation in terms of the number of actively spoken indigenous languages per head of population.