Population and Society

M. H. J. Finch
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M. H. J. Finch: University of Liverpool

Chapter 2 in A Political Economy of Uruguay since 1870, 1981, pp 23-62 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The population history of Uruguay is in several respects quite unlike that of Latin America as a whole, or of any other Latin American country except Argentina. Not the least of its peculiarities is the remarkable absence of a general population census between 1908 and 1963, which, because the assumed contemporary rates of population growth in the inter-censal period were exaggerated compared with modern historical estimates, has meant that the supposed population of the country was (in the late 1950s) up to 12 per cent greater than it is now believed to have been. Errors of estimation have been particularly grave in attempting to determine the net contribution of immigration, due to a lack of attention paid to permanent emigration to neighbouring countries. As a result there are substantial variations in available population estimates, and the data needs to be treated with caution.

Keywords: Political Economy; Pension Fund; Social Security System; Pension Benefit; Crude Birth Rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-16623-7_2

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