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Know how many people live in Latin America and how much in Europe, to know how is the social division that prevails in both regions and also how the development of the autochthonous communities and the various communities that coexist in a certain place, are some of the many questions that allow us to know for sure and with the rigor precisely of science, the demography.

Because demography deals with statistically studying a certain population group on our planet, in its geographical location of course, and you will be able to tell us after carrying out that detailed study that you carried out how many people reside in it, how population grew that part of the world and what have been and are its characteristics and particularities at a time or today, depending on corresponds. Always, demographics, in any of the aspects that carry out their analyzes, will focus on the quantitative, that is, we will always know how much there is of each thing or issue.

Then, the statistics

, which is the science that uses numerical data to infer probabilities and data, is a very important ally of demography in its actions.

In addition to the above, demographics can tell us why one community grew fantastically over a period of time or, failing that, because another stagnated and disappeared. And by case for this is that this discipline is fully introduced into aspects such as reproduction, fertility, social mobility, infant mortality rate, life expectancy at a given time and place, among other variables that affect the issues indicated.

Without a doubt, demographics are a tool invaluable for management politics and to which those who lead the destinies of a nation because the numbers that this postulates in any of the referenced aspects, and especially when they are negative, for example in the infant mortality rate, yes or Yes, they will demand on your part the implementation of a health policy that counteracts such negative progress for the subsistence, development and growth of a population.

Problems inherent to public health and also to the inclusion social can be known thanks to the investigative efforts of demography.

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