Carmen A. Miró (19 April 1919 – 18 September 2022)[1] was a Panamanian sociologist, statistician, and demographer.
She has been called Latin America's top expert in population,[2] and "probably the most outstanding figure that the Panamanian social sciences have produced".
[5] 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.
[8] In 1953, Miró was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association "for her many contributions to the greater effectiveness of the recent Censuses of the Americas" and for creating "a comprehensive and useful statistical system for her country".
[4] In 2016 El Colegio de México gave her their Daniel Cosío Villegas Prize.