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
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|
1950
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1962
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1974
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1982
|
1990
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|
|
#
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%
|
#
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%
|
#
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%
|
#
|
%
|
#
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%
|
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
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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
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3,202,757
|
|
4,564,080
|
|
6,521,710
|
|
8,138,974
|
|
9,648,189
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Source:
INEC.
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