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FIGURE 6.1 An overview of Latin American countries and their populations.
The numbers below the country names represent their current populations (in millions of inhabitants).
Data about ethnic groups was taken from De Blij, H.J., Muller, P.O., Nijman, J., WinklerPrins, A.M.G.A.,
2011. The World Today: Concepts and Regions in Geography, fifth ed. John Wiley & Sons.

individuals from the four most populated areas in Brazil, European ancestry
was the most predominant, ranging from 60.6% in the northeast to 77.7% in
the south (Pena et al., 2011).
This complex knowledge of ancestry origins creates a context for the under-
standing of their health implications and potential health consequences
(Adhikari et al., 2016; Moreno-Estrada et al., 2014; Ruiz-Linares et al., 2014).
Taking into account that the entire Latin American region has experienced