From the soaring mountains of the Andes to the Pampas of Argentina, from the indigenous Indian population ... the map below features the array of life that is South America.

Overall, 47% of South America’s population lived at or above the middle-income level ... living on $10 or more daily in 2011. The maps that follow depict the shares of populations, within broad ranges ...

South America is a continent located in the Western Hemisphere. It is the fourth largest continent in the world, after Asia, Africa, and North America. It has a population of over 439 million ...

Brazil is the largest country in South America and also has the largest population. It is a major tourist destination, with over 2 million people visiting every year to see famous landmarks such ...

To visualize changes in site density and location through time, we created bivariate kernel density maps using ... patterns that govern population size over time in South America, we fit 9 models ...