Abstract: |
South America is divided into 13 countries and has a total population of around 340 million people inhabiting an area covering 17.4 million square kilometres. It has a wide variety of climates, landforms and vegetation, as well as notable differences in this respect within some of the countries themselves. There are similarly wide-ranging economic and social differences with respect to per capita income, access to basic services, infrastructure, education, scientific and technological development and public institutions and civil society. |
