It is estimated that at the time of the Independence of Mexico, between 45% and 60% of the total population of Mexico was indigenous, however due to the Castilianization and suffer higher mortality rates for living, mostly, far from the cities founded by the Spanish settlers, or being at war with them by 1889, it is estimated that the indigenous people had reduced to 35% of the population, which then, according to the 1921 census, was reduced to 30% , and finally only 8% in 2000.
