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Population, territory and sustainable development

The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of current trends, contexts and issues in the spheres of population, territory and sustainable development and examine their public policy implications. Three themes run through the report. The first two are laid out in the empirical chapters (III through X); the third is taken up in the closing chapter. Using the most recent data available (including censuses conducted in the 2010s), the first theme describes and tracks location and spatial mobility patterns for the population of Latin America, focusing on certain kinds of territory. The second explores the linkages between these patterns and sustainable development in different kinds of territory in Latin America and the Caribbean. The third offers considerations and policy proposals for fostering a consistent, synergistic relationship between population location and spatial mobility, on the one hand, and sustainable development, on the other, in the kinds of territory studied.

The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of current trends, contexts and issues in the spheres of population, territory and sustainable development and examine their public policy implications. Three themes run through the report. The first two are laid out in the empirical chapters (III through X); the third is taken up in the closing chapter. Using the most recent data available (including censuses conducted in the 2010s), the first theme describes and tracks location and spatial mobility patterns for the population of Latin America, focusing on certain kinds of territory. The second explores the linkages between these patterns and sustainable development in different kinds of territory in Latin America and the Caribbean. The third offers considerations and policy proposals for fostering a consistent, synergistic relationship between population location and spatial mobility, on the one hand, and sustainable development, on the other, in the kinds of territory studied.

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Table IX.4 Panama: number of cities by population category, 1950-2010 ........................... 152<br />

Table IX.5 Ecuador: number of cities by population category, 1950-2010 .......................... 153<br />

Table IX.6 Latin America (14 countries) (1,439 cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants,<br />

by population size): total net migration (absolute <strong>and</strong> relative) with the rest<br />

of the urban system <strong>and</strong> the rest of the system of cities ...................................... 154<br />

Table IX.7 Latin America (9 countries) (917 cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants,<br />

by population size): total net migration <strong>and</strong> with the rest of the urban system<br />

(total <strong>and</strong> percentage positive net migration), censuses from the 1990s ............. 159<br />

Table IX.8 Latin America (14 countries) (1,439 cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants,<br />

by population size): net total migration <strong>and</strong> with the rest of the<br />

urban system (total <strong>and</strong> percentage positive net migration),<br />

censuses from the 2000s ...................................................................................... 160<br />

Table IX.9 Latin America (3 countries): metropolitan cities by total net migration,<br />

close <strong>and</strong> distant (absolute balances), censuses from the 2000 onwards ............ 161<br />

Table IX.10 Latin America <strong>and</strong> the Caribbean (14 countries): simple correlation matrix<br />

between total net internal migration, with other cities <strong>and</strong> with the rest<br />

of the system of human settlements, <strong>and</strong> socioeconomic indicators<br />

(employment, education, <strong>and</strong> living conditions) ................................................. 166<br />

Table IX.11 Latin America <strong>and</strong> the Caribbean (14 countries): linear regressions<br />

by country for socioeconomic variables <strong>and</strong> total net <strong>and</strong> intra-urban<br />

system migration intensity, significant coefficients ............................................ 167<br />

Table X.1 Latin America <strong>and</strong> the Caribbean: percentages of global total,<br />

rural <strong>and</strong> urban population .................................................................................. 169<br />

Table X.2 Latin America: evolution of the relative weight of the population<br />

of the metropolitan MADs or capital cities in the national<br />

population, 1950-2000 ........................................................................................ 171<br />

Table X.3 Latin America: evolution of the relative weight of the population<br />

of the metropolitan MADs or capital cities in the total urban<br />

population of the country, 1950-2000 ................................................................. 172<br />

Table X.4 Latin America <strong>and</strong> the Caribbean: concentration of the population<br />

in large cities ....................................................................................................... 173<br />

Table X.5 Latin America: population <strong>and</strong> growth rate of cities with 1 million<br />

to 4 million inhabitants, by number of cities, 1950-2000 ................................... 174<br />

Figures<br />

Figure IV.1 Rural population, by major world regions, 1950-2050 ....................................... 27<br />

Figure IV.2 Latin America <strong>and</strong> the Caribbean: total rural population, 1950-2015 ................ 28<br />

Figure IV.3 Latin America: growth rate of the rural population during the intercensal<br />

period 1990-2000 <strong>and</strong> percentage of the population living<br />

in urban areas, 2000 census ................................................................................. 32<br />

Figure IV.4 Density/economic-activity gradient, 2000 census round .................................... 44<br />

Figure IV.5 Latin America <strong>and</strong> the Caribbean (15 countries): distribution of rural<br />

employment among the primary, secondary <strong>and</strong> tertiary sectors ........................ 50<br />

Figure IV.6 Latin America: poor <strong>and</strong> indigent rural population, around 2000 <strong>and</strong> 2010 ....... 59<br />

Figure IV.7 Poverty in rural households, by typology............................................................ 60<br />

Figure IV.8 Typology of rural economies, on the basis of percentages of employment<br />

in agriculture <strong>and</strong> poverty rate by household ...................................................... 60<br />

Figure IV.9 Poverty in rural households by ethnic status ....................................................... 63

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