INDIGENOUS IDENTITY IN THE 2000 MEXICAN CENSUS -- by: John P. Schmal
State	Persons Classified as “Indígena”	“Indígena” as a % of the State Population	Persons Aged 5 or More Who Speak Indigenous Languages	Total State Population	“Indígena” Population as a % of the Population of the Mexican Republic
Oaxaca	1,648,426	47.9%	1,120,312	3,438,765	1.7%
Chiapas	1,117,597	28.5%	809,592	3,920,892	1.1%
Veracruz	1,057,806	15.3%	633,372	6,908,975	1.1%
Yucatán	981,064	59.2%	549,532	1,658,210	1.0%
Puebla	957,650	18.9%	565,509	5,076,686	1.0%
México	939,355	7.2%	361,972	13,096,686	1.0%
Hidalgo	546,834	24.5%	339,866	2,235,591	0.6%
Guerrero	529,780	17.2%	367,110	3,079,649	0.5%
San Luis Potosí	348,551	15.2%	235,253	2,299,360	0.4%
Quintana Roo	343,784	39.3%	173,592	874,963	0.4%
Distrito Federal	339,931	4.0%	141,710	8,605,239	0.4%
Michoacán	199,245	5.0%	121,849	3,985,667	0.3%
Campeche	185,938	26.9%	93,765	690,689	0.2%
Chihuahua	136,589	4.5%	84,086	3,052,907	0.2%
Tabasco	130,896	6.9%	62,027	1,891,829	0.1%
Sonora	126,535	5.7%	55,694	2,216,969	0.1%
Sinaloa	87,948	3.5%	49,744	2,536,844	0.1%
Baja California	81,679	3.3%	37,685	2,487,367	0.1%
Jalisco	75,122	1.2%	55,414	6,322,002	0.1%
Morelos	72,435	4.7%	30,896	1,555,296	0.1%
Tlaxcala	71,986	7.5%	26,662	962,646	0.1%
Nayarit	56,172	6.1%	37,206	920,185	0.1%
Querétaro	47,420	3.4%	25,269	1,404,306	0.1%
Tamaulipas	41,858	1.5%	17,118	2,753,222	0.0%
Durango	39,545	2.7%	24,934	1,448,661	0.0%
Nuevo León	30,051	0.8%	15,446	3,834,141	0.0%
Guanajuato	26,512	0.6%	10,689	4,663,032	0.0%
Baja California Sur	11,481	2.7%	5,353	424,041	0.0%
Coahuila	7,454	0.3%	3,032	2,298,070	0.0%
Colima	6,472	1.2%	2,932	542,627	0.0%
Zacatecas	4,039	0.3%	1,837	1,353,610	0.0%
Aguascalientes	3,472	0.4%	1,244	944,285	0.0%
Mexican Republic	10,253,627	10.5%	6,044,547	97,483,412	10.5%
Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática, “XII Censo General de Población y Vivienda 2000: Síntesis de Resultados.” CONAPO, “Cuadro 1. Población Total, Población Indígena, y Sus Características.”

Racial Makeup of Native-Born Mexicans (from the 1921 Census) © Copyright 2004, John P. Schmal. All Rights Reserved.
State	Indígena Pura*	Indígena Pura (% of Total State Population)	Indígena Mezclada con Blanca**	Percentage of Indígena Mezclada con Blanca	Total State Population	Indígena Pura (% of "Indígena Pura" of Mexican Republic)
Aguascalientes	17,961	16.70%	71,137	66.12%	107,581	0.43%
Baja California – North and South	4,197	6.68%	40,488	64.44%	62,831	0.10%
Campeche	33,176	43.41%	31,675	41.45%	76,419	0.79%
Coahuila	44,779	11.38%	306,433	77.88%	393,480	1.07%
Colima	23,854	26.00%	62,886	68.54%	91,749	0.57%
Chiapas	200,927	47.64%	152,956	36.27%	421,744	4.81%
Chihuahua	51,228	12.76%	201,182	50.09%	401,622	1.23%
District Federal	169,820	18.74%	496,359	54.78%	906,063	4.06%
Durango	33,354	9.90%	300,055	89.10%	336,766	0.80%
Guanajuato	25,458	2.96%	828,724	96.32%	860,364	0.61%
Guerrero	248,526	43.84%	306,361	54.05%	566,836	5.95%
Hidalgo	245,704	39.49%	320,250	51.47%	622,241	5.88%
Jalisco	199,728	16.76%	903,830	75.83%	1,191,957	4.78%
México	372,703	42.13%	422,001	47.70%	884,617	8.92%
Michoacán	196,726	20.93%	663,391	70.58%	939,849	4.71%
Morelos	36,131	34.93%	63,344	61.24%	103,440	0.86%
Nayarit	29,773	18.32%	107,312	66.04%	162,499	0.71%
Nuevo León	17,276	5.14%	253,878	75.47%	336,412	0.41%
Oaxaca	675,119	69.17%	274,752