Demographics of Reunion Island

The total population of Reunion Island is 883,247 people. People in Reunion Island speak the Réunion Creole, and French languages. The linguistic diversity of Reunion Island is vaguely diverse according to a fractionalization scale which for Reunion Island is 0.1578. The median age is approximately 26.5 years. Life expectancy in Reunion Island is 79.7. The female fertility rate in Reunion Island is 2.4. The ethnic diversity is almost uniform according to a fractionalization scale which for Reunion Island is 0. To find out specifics of language, religion, age, gender distribution, and advancement of people in Reunion Island see the sections below, as well as visit the section concerning the education in the country.

Population

In Reunion Island, the population density is 327 people per square kilometer (851 per square mile). Because of this statistic, this country is considered to be densely populated. The total population of Reunion Island is 883,247 people. Reunion Island has approximately 136,493 foreign immigrants. Immigrants in Reunion Island represent 0.1 percent of the total number of immigrants in the world. Immigrants in Reunion Island represent 15.6 percent of the total number of immigrants in the world. The ethnic diversity of Reunion Island is almost uniform according to a fractionalization scale based on ethnicity. Ethnic fractionalization (EF) deals with the number, sizes, socioeconomic distribution, and geographical location of distinct cultural groups, usually in a state or some otherwise delineated territory. Specific cultural features might refer to language, skin color, religion, ethnicity, customs and traditions, history, or other distinctive criteria, alone or in combination. Frequently, these features are used for social exclusion and the monopolization of power. The index of ethnic fractionalization in Reunion Island is 0. This means that the people living in Reunion Island are somewhat fractionalized. EF is usually measured as 1 minus the Herfindahl concentration index of ethnolinguistic group shares, which reproduces the probability that two randomly drawn individuals from the population belong to different groups. The theoretical maximum of EF of 1 means that each person belongs to a different group. Read below for statistics of Reunion Island on median age and gender distribution at various ages.

Age

The median age is approximately 26.5 years.

Gender

The data on gender distribution in a country display how the population is grouped into gender groups, and what is the internal structure of said groups. No such statistics can be provided for Reunion Island.

Religion

The majority religion of Reunion Island is Christianity, the followers of which comprise 87.6% of all religious believers in the country. Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as presented in the New Testament. Christianity is the world's largest religion, with over 2.4 billion adherents, known as Christians. Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the savior of humanity whose coming as Christ or the Messiah was prophesied in the Old Testament. The religious diversity of Reunion Island is vaguely diverse according to a fractionalization scale based on the number of religions in Reunion Island. The index of religious fractionalization in Reunion Island is 0.1952. This score means that within the country there is one major with a few other minor beliefs.

General development

Reunion Island is considered to be a developed nation. The developmental stage of a nation is determined by a number of factors including, but not limited to, economic prosperity, life expectancy, income equality, and quality of life. As a developed nation, Reunion Island is able to provide its citizens with social services like public education, healthcare, and law enforcement. Citizens of developed nations enjoy a high standard of living and longer life expectancies than citizens of developing nations.

Language

People in Reunion Island speak the Réunion Creole, and French languages. The linguistic diversity of Reunion Island is vaguely diverse according to a fractionalization scale based on the number of unrelated languages spoken in Reunion Island. The index of linguistic fractionalization in Reunion Island is 0.1578. This means that within the country there is one major language and several minor languages. Unrelated languages share few characteristics of grammatical structure, vocabulary, and etymological heritage. Linguistic diversity often results in issues of social and cultural fractionalization that can impact a country’s political circumstance and public policies.