Demographic factors, such as high fertility rates, population increases and the migration to the city from rural areas are factors that provide an uncertain future to the majority of Hondurans. In the last three decades the country experienced a significant population increase in almost every department. The population structure by age shows a concentration in people younger than 15 years. In 1997, an average of 186 thousand children was born, growing up in a difficult survival and development environment. At only two years to the third millenium, only seven out of ten houses has access to water and sanitary disposal.
Children are the most vulnerable to poverty.
Women and adolescents are also adversely affected economically and socially, which is manifested in the high mortality rates, low levels of education and analphabetism, lack of income, youth violence and in general, the inability of forming integral human beings to be socially productive.