Abstract

PEREZ, Ana María  and  MONTOYA GUZMAN, Juan David. The Invention of the Population: Health and Wealth in the New Kingdom of Granada, 1760-1810. Secuencia [online]. 2010, n.78, pp.15-42. ISSN 2395-8464.

This article aims to study the link between two crucial points for the goals of Borbonic reform: the health-wealth binomial and population. The authorities' political desire to construct a new colonial system comprising a population subject to the order of progress and civilization led them to conduct the first surveys to determine the number of inhabitants in American colonies and the occupation, age, sex and tax-paying capacity of each vassal. Thus, Borbonic government officials inaugurated the birth of political arithmetic in America that would give rise, after Independence, to the first modern censuses and the establishment of statistical science in Colombia.

Keywords : Territory; population; statistics; colonial state; classification.

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