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With Relevant Data on the Region:
ECLAC Publishes Revamped Edition of Statistical Yearbook
temporal coverage. deaths of children under
The 2016 version has a new
design that incorporates The Yearbook, which is five years of age per 1,000
live births, while in 2015 the
an essential reference for
graphic elements and dig-
ital links related to a select comparative analysis be- maternal mortality rate
tween countries, is orga-
was 67 deaths for every
set of indicators for Latin
American and Caribbean nized in four chapters. In 100,000 live births.
In the area of employment,
the first one, it addresses
countries.
demographic and social in the case of Latin Ameri-
matters, which include in- ca, the population’s eco-
CHILE - The Economic
Commission for Latin Amer- dicators on population, nomic participation rate
labor, education, health,
rose to 64% in 2015. Mean-
ica and the Caribbean
(ECLAC) released today housing and basic servic- while, the document indi-
es, poverty and income
cates that the proportion
its Statistical Yearbook for
Latin America and the Ca- distribution, and gender. of seats held by women in
the national parliaments of
According to these figures,
ribbean 2016, accessible
by Internet, which provides the total population of Latin America and the Ca-
Latin American and Carib-
ribbean was 28.7%.
a statistical overview of
social, economic and en- Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary. bean countries rose to 641 The second chapter pres-
ents economic informa-
million people by mid-2016
vironmental development This year’s edition intro- facilitate reading. In ad-
in the region’s countries, duces significant changes dition, the digital version and will increase to 650 mil- tion referring to national
lion by 2020. It is estimated
accounts, the balance
offering comparable data in the way the indicators offers online access to
between them based on are presented, prioritizing primary information from that during the 2015-2020 of payments and foreign
period, the region will re-
trade and price indexes,
information available as of the incorporation of graphs statistical series that have
mid-2016. and statistical tables that greater geographical and cord an average of 21.9 among other indicators.
The Yearbook shows that in
2015 the region’s average
GDP per capita at current
market prices was 9,886
dollars, with similar values
between Latin America
and the Caribbean. Mean-
while, the current account
balance had a negative
figure of around 179 billion
dollars (2.9% of regional
GDP).
With regard to intrare-
gional trade in 2015, data
indicates that intraregional
exports represented 17% of
the region’s total exports,
while intraregional imports
accounted for 15% of total
imports.
The third chapter offers en-
vironmental statistics and
indicators for the region.
They highlight metrics on
physical characteristics,
land cover, ecosystems,
land, energy and biologi-
cal resources, emissions,
extreme natural events
and disasters, and envi-
ronmental regulation and
governance.
The document shows that
from 2000 to 2015, more
than 50,000 hectares of
forest were lost, or 5.3% of
the total. In 2015, 46% of
the region’s territory was
covered by forest, the vast
majority of it natural forest
(98%). Of the nearly 2 bil-
lion hectares of land in Lat-
in America and the Carib-
bean, 23.4% corresponded
to protected areas in 2014.
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