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In 2015, the BBC [8] and Reuters [9] stated Paraguay "lost more than half of its population", and the Los Angeles Times stated "at least 70% of Paraguay's male population was killed". [10] The Paraguayan war casualties have been listed in Guinness World Records as the highest percentage of a country's dead toll from war. [citation needed]
A 2012 piece in The Economist argued that with the death of most of Paraguay's male population, the Paraguayan War distorted the sex ratio to women greatly outnumbering men and has impacted the sexual culture of Paraguay to this day. Because of the depopulation, men were encouraged after the war to have multiple children with multiple women ...
Demographics of Paraguay, Data of Our World in Data, year 2022; Number of inhabitants in thousands. Paraguay population density (people per km 2) According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects [14] [15] the total population was 6,703,799 in 2021, compared to only 1,473,000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of ...
The war was a disaster for Paraguay, which lost two-thirds of the adult male population. Paraguay's population fell from about 600,000 to about 250,000. For the next 50 years, Paraguay stagnated economically. The male population was replaced by an influx of immigrants from Italy, Spain, Germany, and Argentina. The census of 1899 showed a ...
And though the county's international population grew by an estimated 366 people over the year, those gains were eclipsed by the loss of about 1,332 domestic residents due to relocation, according ...
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Paraguay was eager to offer the Australian colonists 75,000 hectares (185,000 acres) of fertile land. Having lost 90% of its male population only 20 years before in the Paraguayan War the country was desperate for manpower to work the land and re-populate the diminished nation.
An overcount in Puerto Rico, the Census Bureau said, had initially put the 2020 population decline at 11.8% to nearly 3.3 million, but it may be closer to 3.1 million.