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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Demographics Background

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Demographics Background. Jesus Lau, Ph.D. jlau@uv.mx Universidad Veracruzana World Library and Information Congress, 69th IFLA General Conference and Council, Africa, Asia & Oceania, and Latin America & Caribbean Workshop Berlin, Germany,

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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Demographics Background

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  1. LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Demographics Background Jesus Lau, Ph.D. jlau@uv.mx Universidad Veracruzana World Library and Information Congress, 69th IFLA General Conference and Council, Africa, Asia & Oceania, and Latin America & Caribbean Workshop Berlin, Germany, August 7, 2003, Thursday, 13:30-17:30

  2. Countries Population Demographic growth Languages Share more similarities than differences 20 472 million 2% Spanish, Portuguese, French History, culture, religion DEMOGRAPHICS OF LATIN AMERICA

  3. SOCIO-ECONOMIC OVERVIEW • Undergoing economic structural reforms • Market oriented measures • Enjoys economic growth • 4.1% expected growth - 1997-2001 • Close trade links with North America • GDP related to size of territory

  4. LARGE GDP COUNTRIES

  5. MID-SIZE GDPCOUNTRIES

  6. SMALL GDP COUNTRIES

  7. Telephones Cellular phones Satellites 32 million 24 million 34 TELECOMM PROGRESS

  8. TELECOMM LARGE LA COUNTRIES

  9. TELECOMMMID-SIZE COUNTRIES COUNTRIES PHONES SATELLITES TV TV ´000 BROADCAST SETS STATIONS “000 Dominican R 190 1 18 728 Ecuador 585 1 33 940 Guatemala 210 1 25 475 Peru 772 2 140 2,000 Uruguay 451 2 26 725 Total 2,215 7 242 4,868

  10. TELECOMM SMALL LA COUNTRIES

  11. Users Web pages Internet nodes Internet growth 5-8 million 150 thousand 191,129 788% Btwn 1995-7 CYBER PROGRESS

  12. GLOBAL REACH • Internet integrates Latin America • Communication is easier and cheaper • Creates greater information awareness • Makes more information services available • Contributes to have world class information users

  13. LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT • Countries have made library progress • Academic libraries are the best • Internet is more used at academic libraries • School and public libraries are scarce • Information is still paper-based

  14. Libraries Librarians LIS Schools Journals Published Newspapers 40,000 30,000 87 16,000 1,000 LIBRARY PICTURE

  15. INFORMATION USERS´ BACKGROUNG • Middle to upper class • Urban • Young • Usually a student or college graduate • Lower income stratas (largest segment of population) are out of library reach

  16. CHALLENGE: INCREASE LOCAL TOUCH • Provide services to the illiterate population • Gather and organize local information • Join efforts or face mass media overpower • Define national information policies • Increase information awareness among population

  17. CONCLUSIONS • Latin America enjoys economic growth • Telecommunications are growing • Libraries have improved • Global reach: Internet makes LA libraries part of the world • Local reach: LA libraries require better access to local data • Challenge: how to meet info demands of lower income sectors of society

  18. Let’s plan a more inclusive information future for all groups of society. Thanks! Jesús Lau Presentation available at: http://bivir.uacj.mx/lau *Data comes from different statistical sources used for a paper presented at ALA Conference, please see full paper for bibliographic details.

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