Stretchers In The Beginning

Peru in Latin American Ranking: Percentage of Urban Population 2010

There is a very high correlation between the percentage of urban population and the degree of development of countries. This is demonstrated by following data from the recently published Statistical Yearbook 2010 of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
is natural that to happen, since an urban population, being concentrated in specific geographic areas, can much more easily accessible to major economic activities and the provision of services.
These economic activities are, among others, industry and commerce, generating large employment. The services, meanwhile, are education, health, electricity, water, sanitation, health care, telephony, transport, Internet, etc., all of which are key in defining the development.

rural population, however, is often scattered among a large number of small villages, to which it is almost prohibitive to arrive en masse to the elements mentioned above.
therefore considered that the process of urbanization, and migration to the city, is integral to development. It is the duty of governments to ensure that the inexorable phenomenon takes place in an orderly manner, giving the cities of conditions that enable them to properly absorb population flows.

In Latin America, several countries with a high degree of urban population and, therefore, do not expect higher flows in the direction indicated. These include Venezuela, Argentina and Uruguay, whose percentages of population living in cities over 90%.
Chile and Brazil, a little further back, also have significant proportions of their populations living in cities.

In Peru, the 73.4% of the population is urban. As is known, the flow began shortly before mid-twentieth century, continued strongly in the 50's and 60's and intensified in the 70 and 80, both due to the severe economic crisis of the day (worse in the field for land reform poorly conceived), and the phenomenon of terrorism, which caused the exodus of economic and human capital in the region. Unfortunately, in our country the inexorable migration had an undesirable outcome, as was reflected in the hypercentral of Lima, to the detriment of other cities that did not have the attraction that had the capital itself. Now seeks to reverse this process through decentralization to promote new economic development zones.

As to ratify the high correlation mentioned at the beginning of this note, a number of the poorest countries in the region ranked lowest in the degree of urbanization. Thus we see that in Nicaragua and Guatemala the percentage of urban population reached 60%, while in Honduras barely 50.5%. Undoubtedly, these countries still awaits a long way in terms of internal migration.