URBANIZATION, POVERTY, AND CHILDREN IN LATIN AMERICA

DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE

* Total Population: 39,309,422 (July 1999 estimate)

** Urban Population: 24 million people, 72% of total population

** Rural Population: 9 million people, 27% of total population

** Population of Colombia’s three largest cities:

* Data from The CIA World Factbook 1999; statistics compiled from information available as of January 1, 1999 . www.odci.gov/publications/factbook/co.html
** Data from Colombian Government Trade Bureau, Washington DC
Date of data not mentioned, most recent mentioned date is "late 1990’s" but the website is "updated continuosly." www.coltrade.org/12.htm
 
 

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