Latin American profile, demographics and socio economic strata – an update
Norah SchmeichelGfk Kleiman Sygnos, Argentina
Manuel BarberenaPearson S.A. de C.V., Mexico
Barbara CorralesEP Escritório de Pesquisa Eugenia Paesani, Brazil
DEMOGRAPHICS IN LATIN AMERICA
Introduction
Latin America is the largest and most highly populated region on the American Continent.
This vast territory includes 36 countries, 10 of which are small islands in the Caribbean (see Figure 4).
Latin American countries have strong ties in common: Spanish and Portuguese colonization, the Spanish language, and secondarily the Portuguese language, and the fact that these countries share the...