From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia
Daniel Cotlear, Editor
Daniel Cotlear, Editor
Health, Nutrition, and Population Unit in the Human Development Network of the World Bank
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank 2011
“……The past half-century has seen enormous changes in the demographic makeup of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In the 1950s, LAC had a small population of about 160 million people, less than today’s population of Brazil. Two-thirds of Latin Americans lived in rural areas.
Families were large and women had one of the highest fertility rates in the world, low levels of education, and few opportunities for work outside the household. Investments in health and education reached only a small fraction of the children, many of whom died before reaching age five. Since then, the size of the LAC population has tripled and the mostly rural population has been transformed into a largely urban population./../
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