RELATIVE SOCIAL INDICATORS, LAC COUNTRIES COMPARED TO THE INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD                                                             
(INDEX: INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES=100)                                                                      


                               Life          Under-Five       Daily Calorie        Adult            Access to         
                            Expectancy        Mortality          Supply           Literacy          Safe Water        
Country                    1960    1990     1960    1990      1965   1988-90    1970     1990     1975   1988-90
Antigua and Barbuda                                                                                    
Argentina                    94      95       97      98        96       99       94       96          
Bahamas                      91      96                                                                
Barbados                     93     100+      96     100+                                           98       99 
Belize                                                                                                 
Bolivia                      62      73       76      86        62       65       58       78       34       46 
Brazil                       79      88       89      94        81       84       67       82       62       96 
Chile                        83      96       90      99        87       79       90       94       70       86 
Colombia                     82      92       89      97        76       83       78       88       64       92 
Costa Rica                   89     100+      92     100+       84       92       88       94       72       94 
Cuba                         92     100+      96     100+       82      100+      87       95          
Domincia                                                                                               
Dominican Republic           75      89       85      94        69       77       68       84       55       62 
Ecuador                      77      89       86      94        67       75       72       87       36       58 
El Salvador                  73      86       84      93        65       78       58       74       53       41 
Grenada                                                                                                
Guatemala                    66      85       82      92        75       80       44       56       39       60 
Guyana                       81      86       92      95                                            72       81 
Haiti                        61      75       78      89        71       63       22       54       12       42 
Honduras                     67      87       81      93        70       72       53       74       41       52 
Jamaica                      91      98       96     100+       81       86       97       99       86       72 
Mexico                       83      94       84      96        90      100+      74       88       62       78 
Nicaragua                    68      87       84      94        86       78                         46       53 
Panama                       88      97       94      99        79       80       82       89       77       83 
Paraguay                     92      90       91      96        90       91       81       91       13       33 
Peru                         69      85       81      90        79       70       71       86          
St. Lucia                                                                                              
St. Kitts and Nevis                                                                                    
St. Vincent and Grens.                                                                                 
Suriname                     87      93       95      98                                            88       84 
Trinidad and Tobago          92      96       98     100+       83       90                         93       96 
Uruguay                      98      97       99      99        85       78       94       97          
Venezuela                    86      94       93      98        76       78       76       89       79       89 


Source: UNDP, "Human Development Report 1993."                                                         

Note: Figures are relative to the industrial countries average (i.e. OECD), which is indexed to equal 100. 
The smaller the figure the bigger the gap, the closer the figure is to 100 the smaller the gap, and a figure 
above 100 indicates that the country is better than the industrialized world's average.