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Ethnodevelopment and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America. According to the last round of censuses available, in 2010 there were about 42 million indigenous people in Latin America, representing nearly 8 % of the total population. Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, and Bolivia had the largest indigenous populations both in absolute and proportional terms, comprising more than 80 percent of the total (34.4 million). El Salvador, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, Costa Rica, and Venezuela had the smallest proportions of indigenous population, with El Salvador and Costa Rica having the smallest indigenous populations in absolute terms (14,865 and 104,143 people, respectively) Poverty means different things to different people but in fact afflicts 43 % of the indigenous population in the region—more than twice the proportion of non-indigenous people—while 24 % of all indigenous people live in extreme poverty, 2.7 times more than the proportion of non-indigenous people. Indige...