| Estimates put
Belize's population at about 240,000 with 75,000 living in
Belize City ....
A 2004 Population and Housing
Census estimates the population at 282,600 with the main ethnic groups Mestizo
(43.7%), Creole (29.8%), Maya (11.1%), and
Garifuna (6.6%). Each of the other ethnic groups
at the time accounted for less than five percent
of the population (East Indian 3.5% and German/Dutch/Mennonite
3.1%). All the rest account for 2.2%. Ethnic
groups, however, are heavily intermixed.
English is the official
language and the language of instruction
in the schools. Spanish is also widely spoken.
In Orange Walk and Corozal Districts
in the north and Cayo District
border towns near Guatemala in the west, where
the majority of people speak Spanish as a mother
tongue.
For many in the southern districts
of Stann Creek and Toledo,
the first language is Garifuna or Maya. However,
most everyone speaks an English dialect, called Creole.
A recent census indicated 54.3% of
the Belizean population to be very fluent in English,
22.5% not so fluent and 23.2% not fluent at all.
43.9% are very fluent in Spanish, 11.1% not so fluent
and 45% not fluent at all.
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