Fertility differences between Indian and Spanish-speaking parts of Andean countries

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Recently J. M. Stycos has demonstrated that there exists an important regional difference in Peruvian fertility. If we ignore the area surrounding Peru's capital city of Lima we may distinguish two different regions of the country, each containing approximately the same total population. The first region consists of the eight departamentos located in the Andean highlands in which the great majority of the total population are Indian-speaking, where the predominant occupation is subsistence agriculture, and the level of economic development is very low. The second region consists of the 13 departamentos located on the Pacific coast or east of the Andes in the Amazon lowlands, where the preponderant language is Spanish, agriculture is often of the plantation type, a substantial part ofthe population lives in small cities, and where the level of economic development is relatively high.

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