Population
We invite you to connect with the cultural diversity of Venezuela. A country with a population of approximately 33 million, more than three times the population of the United Arab Emirates.
The estimated population of Venezuela is 33 million, more than three times the population of the UAE.
Venezuela is a predominantly urban country, with more than 75% of its population living in cities.
Demographic dividend:
Venezuela has 65% of its population between the ages of 15 and 65.
Venezuela promotes the recognition and political, cultural and social leadership of indigenous peoples.
In Venezuela, native peoples constitute 3% of the population, and their more than 39 languages are recognized as co-official.
Eduardo Galeano says that the story changes according to the voice that tells it.
That is why in Venezuela, October 12th is commemorated the Day of Indigenous People Resistance, paying tribute to the heroism of the native peoples against the conquest.
Dancing Devils of Corpus Christi, Venezuela.
Religious manifestation declared in 2012 by UNESCO as “Intangible Heritage of Humanity”.
Celebration of popular religiosity that symbolizes the triumph of goodness over evil.
It is not people acting. They are not characters. It is the human diversity of a country expressed through 200 people, just being themselves.
The Afro-descendant population is a substantial part of the Venezuelan identity.
The Afro roots are assumed with pride by the nation and are manifested in various aspects of gastronomy, traditions, music and art.
Afro-Venezuelan heroes and heroines are a source of inspiration for new generations and their legacy nourishes the social, cultural and political life of the country.
La Parranda de San Pedro is a popular religious festivity, celebrated every 29 June, the day of the apostle Saint Peter, in the cities Guarenas and Guatire, near Caracas.
The parranderos, dressed in brightly coloured costumes, play the roles of the main characters of the legend of the slave woman María Ignacia, whose daughter was healed by San Pedro. At the sound of musical instruments, the participants dance and sing, waving flags.
This traditional celebration, which symbolises the community spirit and the fight against injustice on behalf of the enslaved population, has been declared Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO.
Venezuela has a Children’s and Youth Orchestras System, recognized worldwide for its highly artistic quality and for its original policy of social inclusion.
The Venezuelan National Children’s and Youth Orchestras System is made up of 120 youth orchestras and 60 children’s orchestras, in which more than a million girls, boys, adolescents and young musicians participate, guided by more than 5,000 teachers.
Since 2004, the Venezuelan National Children’s and Youth Orchestras System was appointed UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassador, playing an active role in the dissemination and promotion of children’s rights.
Venezuela develops the massification of sports as part of social inclusion policies, promoting healthy lifestyle, coexistence and peace.
The national sport is baseball; basketball, soccer, boxing, and martial arts are also very popular; there is a growing interest in athletics and other Olympic disciplines.
The Golden Generation: in the last 20 years, Venezuela doubled its historical national Olympic and Paralympic medal tally, with its best performance in Tokyo 2020.
It is said that Venezuelans, as good Caribbean people, learn to dance before we learn to walk.
We dance on stages and in halls, but we dance more in squares and in the streets, in every popular party and family reunion.
And at a special moment of the party, as if responding to an ancestral call, everyone gathers to dance to the sound of the drums.
“The photographer is the contemporary being per excellence; through their gaze, the present becomes the past.”
Berenice Abbott United States photographer (1898-1991)
“The heart and the mind are the true lens of the camera”.
Yousuf Karsh Armenian-born Canadian photographer (1908-2002)
“You don’t photograph with your machine. You photograph with your entire culture”.
Sebastião Salgado Brazilian photographer. (N.1994)
Music, graffiti, dance, skateboarding and other expressions of urban art take to the streets of the country’s main cities.
Venezuelan youth is the protagonist of this global movement, with total creative freedom, giving it personality, rhythm and local colour.
Body painting, which is an ancestral tradition of the different Venezuelan indigenous cultures, appears with new meanings of personal and collective identity in the modern tattoo culture.
The different generations of men and women of the Venezuelan defense and security forces assume with dignity and commitment the comprehensive defense of the nation.
The legacy of the Liberator Simón Bolívar guarantees the principles, values and objectives of their actions.
They work day by day to protect the human, economic and social rights of the population, the sovereign development of their natural resources, territorial integrity and friendship and cooperation with the peoples.
Carnival is here and Venezuela is dressing up to celebrate.
Dances, masks, costumes, water games, parades with traditional characters and representations make up a spectacle of music, joy and colour that overflows the streets and squares in various regions of the country.
In an original, unique and characteristic way, Venezuela vibrates to the rhythm of this popular festival that is celebrated on these dates in a large part of the world.
