Twilight's Children Atoyaquillo Population is 800, including about 250 children of school age, according to the National Institute of Statistics. About 28 percent of Mexico's people still live in the countryside.
Rural areas are among the poorest in Mexico.
According to the municipal government 1990 census, population is about 1.2 million, with approximately 600,000 of school age. Despite a decline in population growth, Mexico is expected to have 125 million people by 2010 with about 36 million Mexicans age 14 or younger and 23.5 million school-age children. In California, Latinos constitute 25 percent of the population. They will make up 36 percent of the state's estimated 42.4 million people in the year 2010, according to projections by the California Department of Finance. Houston Latinos account for 27 percent of Houston's population.