SELECTED SOCIAL INDICATORS (CONT.)
Share of Household Population % of Central Government Social
Household Inc. Consump. Below Absolute Expenditure Allocated to Security
1980-91 (%) on Food Poverty Level Selected Sectors Benefits
Lowest Highest 1980-85 (%) 1980-89 (%) 1986-92 (% GNP)
Country 40% 20% Urban Rural Health Educ. Defense 1980-89
Argentina 14 51 35 3 10 10
Bolivia 12 58 33 3 19 13
Brazil 7 68 35 9 34 7 3 4 4.60
Chile 11 63 29 12 20 6 10 8 9.90
Colombia 13 53 29 32 70 1.50
Costa Rica 13 51 33 8 20 32 19 2 6.30
Cuba 23 10 7.10
Dominican Republic 12 56 46 45 43 14 10 5 .50
Ecuador 30 40 65 11 18 13 1.60
El Salvador 8 66 33 20 32 8 14 21 1.0
Guatemala 8 63 36 17 51 10 20 13 .80
Haiti 6 48 65 80
Honduras 9 64 39 31 70 7
Jamaica 16 48 36 80 7 11 8 1.20
Mexico 12 56 35 2 14 2 1.50
Nicaragua 12 58 21 19 11 9 50 1.50
Panama 8 60 38 21 30 21 17 5 9.40
Paraguay 30 19 50 4 13 13
Peru 14 51 35 46 83 6 21 18
Trinidad and Tobago 13 50 19 39 2.10
Uruguay 18 44 31 22 4 7 9 7.50
Venezuela 14 50 23 10 20 6 1.10
Source: UNICEF, "The State of the World's Children - 1994." Data are latest year available within the range of
years.