Carmen A. Miró
Panamanian sociologist, statistician, and demographer (1919-2022)
Carmen A. Miró (19 April 1919 – 18 September 2022) was a Panamanian sociologist, statistician, and demographer.
She has been called Latin America's top expert in population, and "probably the most outstanding figure that the Panamanian social sciences have produced".
Life and career
Miró was the daughter of poet Ricardo Miró.
She studied business at the University of Panama, and went on to graduate studies at the London School of Economics.
From 1946 to 1956, she headed the Panamanian Department of Statistics and the Census. During this time she was also a professor of statistics at the University of Panama. In 1957 she became the founding director of the Center for Latin American Studies of Demography of the United Nations (CELADE), now the Population Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. She continued to direct CELADE until 1976. After four years at El Colegio de México she returned to Panama, where she became affiliated with the Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos (CELA) "Justo Arosemena".
In 1984, she stood for election as vice president of Panama, but was unsuccessful.
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