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While annual growth for the suburban area slowed to 0.8% between 2010 and 2022, the 14 million inhabitants in the entire 30-county area plus the City of Buenos Aires account for a third of the total population of Argentina and generate nearly half (48%) of the country's GDP.
Argentina is highly urbanized, [9] with the ten largest metropolitan areas accounting for half of the population, and fewer than one in ten living in rural areas. About 3 million people live in Buenos Aires proper, and including suburban Greater Buenos Aires the metropolitan area totals around 14 million - making it one of the 15 largest urban areas in the world. [12]
The population density in Buenos Aires proper was 13,680 inhabitants per square kilometer (35,400 inhabitants/sq mi), but only about 2,400/km 2 (6,200/sq mi) in the suburbs. [79] Buenos Aires' population has hovered around 3 million since 1947, due to low birth rates and a slow migration to the suburbs.
Between 1887 and 1912 Buenos Aires's population tripled while the number of crimes reported increased seven times. [7] In Buenos Aires, it was estimated that an average immigrant family contained five people in a one-room house that was twelve by twelve feet. [2] The crowded cities were also a central point in crime.
The population of each city except Buenos Aires includes its conurbation. Greater Buenos Aires has a population of 12,801,365. There is also a list at the bottom of this page that shows the GDP (PPP: Purchasing Power Parity) of each greater metropolitan area of the largest cities in the country.
Buenos Aires Province is the most populated province of the country. The INDEC estimates that the population of Buenos Aires Province was 17,541,141 on 1 July 2020, [15] a 12.26% increase since the 2010 national census.
All values, unless otherwise stated, are in US dollars. The economy of Argentina is the second-largest national economy in South America, behind Brazil. Argentina is a developing country with a highly literate population, an export-oriented agricultural sector, and a diversified industrial base. Argentina benefits from rich natural resources.
1542 – City attacked by indigenous people and settlers abandon it, moving to Asunción. 1580 – Second foundation of the city around fort built by Juan de Garay. [1] 1591 – Dominican monastery established. [2] 1604 – San Francisco monastery established. [2] 1611 – Men's Hospital founded.