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Indians and Leftists 

This is an Electronic Appendix of documents to accompany my book Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements (Duke University Press, 2008).


Rural/Urban and Sierra/Coastal Population of Ecuador, 1950-1990


1950

1962

1974

1982

1990



#

%

#

%

#

%

#

%

#

%

Sierra

Rural

1,370,970

73.8%



1,943,769

61.8%

2,112,919

55.2%

2,139,368

48.6%


Urban

485,475

26.2%



1,202,796

38.2%

1,712,224

44.8%

2,262,050

51.4%


Total

1,856,445

58.0%

2,359,418

51.7%

3,146,565

48.2%

3,825,143

47.0%

4,401,418

45.6%

Coast

Rural

875,602

67.4%



1,708,855

53.7%

1,773,655

44.5%

1,817,388

37.9%


Urban

422,893

32.6%



1,470,591

46.3%

2,211,224

55.5%

2,976,444

62.1%


Total

1,298,495

40.5%

2,127,358

46.6%

3,179,446

48.8%

3,984,879

49.0%

4,793,832

49.7%

Oriente

Total

46,471

1.5%

74,913

1.6%

173,469

2.7%

263,797

3.2%

372,533

3.9%

Ecuador

Rural

2,288,825

71.5%

2,951,734

64.7%

3,822,988

58.6%

4,153,482

51.0%

4,302,331

44.6%


Urban

913,932

28.5%

1,612,346

35.3%

2,698,722

41.4%

3,985,492

49.0%

5,345,858

55.4%


Total

3,202,757


4,564,080


6,521,710


8,138,974


9,648,189


Source: INEC.


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