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Table IX.3
LATIN AMERICA: RETROSPECTIVE LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF POPULATION TRENDS
IN THE SYSTEM OF CITIES, BY POPULATION SIZE a
1,963 cities in 2000
Number
of cities
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
1950-
1960
1960-
1970
Growth rates
(per 100 inhabitants)
1,000,000 or more 47 27 398 129 44 938 362 73 732 738 103 001 714 125 142 162 156 219 434 4.9 5.0 3.3 1.9 2.2 3.5
500,000 to 999,999 44 4 376 200 7 043 305 11 287 394 16 594 365 23 521 944 30 328 031 4.8 4.7 3.9 3.5 2.5 3.9
100,000 to 499,999 299 8 634 523 13 676 793 23 090 705 34 599 224 46 315 276 62 841 816 4.6 5.2 4.0 2.9 3.1 4.0
50,000 to 99,999 398 4 051 952 6 674 641 10 348 170 14 738 452 21 038 223 28 165 024 5.0 4.4 3.5 3.6 2.9 3.9
20,000 to 49,999 1 175 5 963 872 8 578 729 13 689 920 19 533 066 25 983 408 35 874 277 3.6 4.7 3.6 2.9 3.2 3.6
Total 20,000 and more 1 963 50 424 676 80 911 830 132 148 927 188 466 821 242 001 013 313 428 582 4.7 4.9 3.5 2.5 2.6 3.7
Percentage of
total population
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
1,000,000 or more 18.3 23.1 27.2 30.9 31.4 31.1
500,000 to 999,999 2.9 3.6 4.2 5.0 5.9 6.0
100,000 to 499,999 5.8 7.0 8.5 10.4 11.6 12.5
50,000 to 99,999 2.7 3.4 3.8 4.4 5.3 5.6
20,000 to 49,999 4.0 4.4 5.1 5.9 6.5 7.1
Total 20,000 and more 33.7 41.6 48.8 56.5 60.7 62.3
Percentage of
urban population
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
1,000,000 or more 44.3 46.3 47.2 46.4 43.1 40.6
500,000 to 999,999 7.1 7.3 7.2 7.5 8.1 7.9
100,000 to 499,999 14.0 14.1 14.8 15.6 16.0 16.4
50,000 to 99,999 6.6 6.9 6.6 6.6 7.3 7.3
20,000 to 49,999 9.6 8.8 8.8 8.8 9.0 9.3
Total 20,000 and more 81.5 83.3 84.6 85.0 83.4 81.5
1970-
1980
1980-
1990
1990-
2000
1950-
2000
Source: Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Centre (CELADE) - Population Division of ECLAC, on the basis of information from Spatial distribution and urbanization
in Latin America and the Caribbean (DEPUALC) database, 2011.
Includes cities from the following countries that conducted population censuses in 2000: Argentina, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, and Uruguay.
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