18 de outubro de 2012

Tendências demográficas na América Latina

 "Increasingly, the debate over plummeting world birth rates is shifting to the developing world. This includes Latin America where on the whole rates are dropping quickly from 5.98 children per woman in 1960 to 2.20 children per woman in 2010.
Yet these aggregate numbers do not reflect the variation in birthrates between various Latin American countries. Even as countries such as Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico head to rates at or even below replacement rates, there remain extreme examples of both higher and lower rates throughout the region. The most extreme variation can be found in Cuba and Guatemala which respectively have the lowest and highest fertility rates in Latin America.
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