The Third National Census of Population of the Dominican Republic was raised on 6 August 1950, during the presidency of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, after the Decree No.6091 of 20 October 1949.
This census collected information on sex, occupation, age, fertility, race, religion, marital status, nationality, literacy, ability to vote, and housing.
| General results | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Quantity | % | |||||
| Total population | 2,135,872 | 100 | |||||
| Men | 1,070,742 | 50.13 | |||||
| Women | 1,065,130 | 48.87 | |||||
| Peasants | 76.20 | ||||||
| Urbanites | 23.80 | ||||||
| Regions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North | 1,100,573 | 51.53% | |||||
| South | 795,835 | 37.26% | |||||
| District of Santo Domingo | 239,464 | 11.21% | |||||
| Results on marital status | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marital status | Quantity | % | |||||
| Total population | 2,135,872 | 100.00 | |||||
| Single | 1,432,579 | 67.07 | |||||
| Married | 341,887 | 16.01 | |||||
| Widowed | 44,182 | 2.07 | |||||
| Cohabitating | 310,240 | 14.52 | |||||
| Results on Nationality and Race | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Quantity | % | |||||
| Dominicans | 2,101,218 | 98.4 | |||||
| Foreigners | 34,654 | 1.6 | |||||
| from Haiti | 18,772 | 0.9 | |||||
| from another country | 15,882 | 0.7 | |||||
| Whites | 600,994 | 28.14 | |||||
| Mestizos | 1,289,285 | 60.36 | |||||
| Blacks | 245,032 | 11.47 | |||||
| Yellows | 561 | 0.03 | |||||
| Results on Creed | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Religion | % | ||||||
| Catholic | 98.25 | ||||||
| Protestant | 1.43 | ||||||
| Buddhist | 0.00 | ||||||
| Jewish | 0.02 | ||||||
| Adventist | 0.14 | ||||||
| another | 0.06 | ||||||
| none | 0.09 | ||||||
| not declared | 0.01 | ||||||
| Fertility rate | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zones | Average of Children per mother | ||||||
| Nationwide | 5.0 | ||||||
| Urban | 4.1 | ||||||
| Rural | 5.3 | ||||||
| Language | Total % | Urban % | Rural % | |||
| Spanish | 98.00 | 97.82 | 98.06 | |||
| French | 1.19 | 0.39 | 1.44 | |||
| English | 0.57 | 0.96 | 0.45 | |||
| Arabic | 0.09 | 0.35 | 0.01 | |||
| Italian | 0.03 | 0.10 | 0.01 | |||
| another language | 0.12 | 0.35 | 0.04 |