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Population density and wealth

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  1. World Development Report 1992. Table 30 (World Bank/Oxford University Press, 1992).

  2. World Resources 1990–1991, Table 17.1 (World Resources Institute, Spanish Edition, Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia, México, 1991).

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Orrego, F., Marengo, J. & Bull, R. Population density and wealth. Nature 370, 92 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/370092a0

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