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US AID 1996
Latin American and the Caribbean Selected Economic and Social Data
Social Indicators


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

 

1960

1992

1960

1993

1965

1992

1970

1992

1975-80

1988-93

Antigua and Barbuda

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

Argentina

94

97

97

98

96

92

100+

97

..

..

Bahamas

91

98

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

Barbados

93

100+

96(1)

100+(1,2)

..

..

..

..

98(1)

100

Belize

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

Bolivia

62

80

76

89

62

67

62

81

34

55

Brazil

79

89

89

95

81

90

71

83

62

88

Chile

83

99

90

99

87

83

96

95

70

87

Colombia

82

93

89

99

76

86

84

91

64

87

Costa Rica

89

100+

92

99

84

92

95

95

72

94

Cuba

92

100+

96

100

82

91

94

96

..

..

Dominica

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

Dominican Rep.

75

94

85

96

69(1)

77(1,4)

72

82

55

60

Ecuador

77

92

86

95

67

83

78

89

36

56

El Salvador

73

89

84

95

65

85

62

71

53

47

Grenada

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

Guatemala

66

87

82

94

75

72

48

55

39

63

Guyana

81

88

92(1)

95 (1,2)

..

..

..

..

72(1)

64

Haiti

61

76

78

88

71

55

24

43

12

39

Honduras

67

91

81

95

70

74

57

71

41

69

Jamaica

91

99

96

100

81

83

100+

85

86

100+

Mexico

83

95

84

98

90

100+

80

90

62(1)

77

Nicaragua

68

90

84

94

86

73

..

..

46

55

Panama

88

98

94

99

79

72

88

91

77

85

Paraguay

92

94

91

98

90

85

86

92

13

35

Peru

69

89

81

95

79

60

77

88

..

..

Saint Kitts and Nevis

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

Saint Lucia

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

Saint Vincent

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

Suriname

87

94

95(1)

98(1,2)

..

..

..

..

88(1)

89

Trinidad and Tobago

92

96

98

99

83

83

..

..

93

98

Uruguay

98

97

99

99

85

88

100+

98

..

..

Venezuela

86

96

93

99

76

84

81

91

..

..

Source: UNDP, Human Development Report, 1995.
1 Figures are taken from UNDP, Human Development Report, 1994.
2 1992 data.
3 1988-1991 data.
4 1988-1990 data.
Note: Figures are relative to the average industrial for the (OECD) countries average (i.e. OECD), which is indexed to equal 100. The smaller the figure the larger the gap; a figure above 100 indicates that the country's performance is better than the industrialized world's average.

U.S. Agency for International Development
Washington D.C. 1996.


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