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SOME 8.2 MILLION PEOPLE BECAME "SECURE" BETWEEN 1967 AND 1972.
"rOUNTRYWIDE
POPULATION
{IN MILLIONS 1967-72
END OF YEAR) 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 CHANGE
SECURE (A&B) 7 2 8.2 12.5 13.4 15.8 15.4 8.:
RELATIVZI SLZURi(C) 4.3 5.2 3.8 3.5 2.3 2.6 -1.7
CONTESTED (D&E) 2.7 1.9 .8 19 .6 1.0 -1.7
VC/NVA CONTROL 2.9 2.2 .4 - - .2 -2.7
SVN TOTAL 17.2 17.5 17.6 17.9 18.7 19.3 2.1
THIS RAISED THE PERCENTAGE OF "SECURE" FROM 42 TO 80 PERCENT
% OF RVN
POPULATION
SECURE (A&B) 42 47 71 75 84 80 38
RELATIVELY SECURE(C) 25 ZU 21 20 13 14 -11
CONTESTED (D&E) 16 11 5 5 3 5 -1i
VC/NVA CONTROL 17 12 2 0 0 1 -16
SOURCE: Thayer, Hamlet Evaluation System C(.mputer Tapes 1967-1972.
All figures are based )n total IES scores, which include the
security, political, and socio-economic dimensions.
Total includes oppulation in unevaluated hamlets which is not
shown in the Table, so some of the columns do not add precisely
to the totals. The Table incluaes the urban population: which
means that the C-D-E-VC popu'ation iF mostly conceqtrated in
the rural areas.,
Figure 5-19. Summary of HES Compute. Tapes (19%,-1972)
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