Taking the pulse of population growth.
Americas (English Edition) › Vol. 46 Nbr. 5, September 1994
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Summary
Colombia's population has grown rapidly since the precolonization era. Realizing the threat posed by overpopulation, Fernando Tamayo founded Profamilia in 1965 to educate Colombians about family planning. Since then, Profamilia has been able to effectively reduce the country's population.
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Taking the pulse of population growth.
In Colombia, Profamilia's contributions to family planning and reduction of population growth have made it a leader worlwide
Among South American nations, Colombia has some of the earliest evidence of human settlement--stone flakes from the El Abra rock shelter and a mastodon-butchering site at Tibito, near Bogota, dating back 12,500 and 11,750 years respectively--as well as the continent's most complete colonial population records. It seems only fitting, then, that the country should also be home to Profamilia, the hemisphere's leading private organization concerned with population issues. In Colombia, where demographic matters are debated in the most open and practical terms, credit for this, as well as for the rapi...See the full content of this document
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