The Population of Latin America, A History

Sánchez-Albornoz, Nicolás. The Population of Latin America, A History, translated by W. A. R. Richardson, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974. [paperback]

Citado en Historia de América Latina por Leslie Bethell.

Journal of Social History © 1978

From Latin American Demographic History in the Age of the World Wide Web: National Census Samples as Historical Sources, by Robert McCaa:

Demographic historians of Latin America focus much of their research effort on the protostatistical era--the century of conquest and colonialization, the era of the Bourbons, and even the nineteenth century. Few population historians of Latin America devote attention to the first decades of the twentieth century, much less the recent past, say from 1960. The Bible for our field, Nicolas Sanchez Albornoz's The Population of Latin America (University of California Press, 1974; revised Spanish edition, 1994), offers not only a comprehensive overview of the region's demographic past but also looks into Latin America's future. Much of Sanchez Albornoz's interpretation on the course of population change in the twentieth century is based on the research of demographers, not historians.