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The World Population: Two Distinct “Blocs”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Carmen A. Miró
Carmen A. Miró*
Affiliation:
Centro Latinoamericano de Demografía
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Following their particular doctrinary inclinations, students of the social and the political situation have utilized diverse designations to identify the various segments into which they divide the world. These designations have always tended to present a tripartite division, based frequently on economic or politico-social organizations. They have thus used terms such as “free,” communist and uncommitted, capitalist, socialist, “third world,” imperialistic, colonial or marxist.

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Topical Review
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , Summer 1966 , pp. 5 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © 1966 by the University of Texas Press

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The opinions expressed in this paper reflect the author's personal points of view.

References

Notes

1. The number of induced abortions in 1959 was 1,099,000, representing a rate of 677.1 per 1000 live births. Masabumi Kimura, A Review of Induced Abortion Surveys in Japan. (Paper No. 43, IPU Conference, 1961.)

2. Andras Klinger, Demographic Factors of Abortion Legislation in Some European Socialist Countries. Document A.1/I/E/88.

3. David M. Heer, “Abortion, Contraception, and Population Policy in the Soviet Union,” Demography, 2, (1965) 531–539.

4. Carmen A. Miró, Some Misconceptions Disproved: A Programme of Comparative Fertility Surveys in Latin America. (Document prepared for the International Conference on Family Planning Programs, Geneva, August 23–27, 1965.)

5. For example, it is estimated that the mortality of Tropical South America at the beginning of the century was around 30 to 35 per thousand; that of Russia before 1910 was approximately 30 per thousand, and that of Ceylon in 1921–25 was estimated at about 28 per thousand.

6. Joseph J. Spengler, “Population and Economic Growth,” in Population: The Vital Revolution, ed. Ronald Freedman (Garden City: Anchor Books, 1964).

7. Recent calculations by ECLA estimate the number of young people under 20 years of age who would enter the working population during the year 1965 to be about 3 million. It is presumed that this number will exceed 4 ½ million annually in 1980.