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

SELECTED SOCIAL INDICATORS

						Food Consumption	Social
	Human			Adult		(as % of total	Security	Population
	Dev Index (a)	Life Expectancy at Birth (years)		Literacy Rate		Household consumption)	Benefits (% of GDP)	Urbanized (%)	1990-93 % of labour force in
	1992	1960	1992	1970	1993	1980-85	1985-90	1994	Agriculture	Industry	Services

Antigua and Barb.	0.840						..	36	..	..	..
Argentina	0.882	65	72	100	100	35	..	88	13	34	53
Bahamas	0.894	63	73				0.5	85	5	4	91
Barbados	0.900	64	76				0.9	46	7	11	82
Belize	0.883							47
Bolivia	0.588	43	59	62	85	33	2.3	60	47	19	34
Brazil	0.804	55	66	71	86	35	4.6	78	25	25	47
Chile	0.880	57	74	96	99	29	9.9	84	19	26	55
Colombia	0.836	57	69	84	95	29	1.5	72	10	24	66
Costa Rica	0.883	62	76	95	99	33	6.3	49	25	27	48
Cuba	0.769	64	75	94	100		7.1	76	24	29	47
Dominica	0.776						..	...	31	13	56
Dominican Rep.	0.705	52	70	72	85	46	0.5	64	46	15	39
Ecuador	0.784	53	69	78	93	30	1.6	58	33	19	48
El Salvador	0.579	51	66	62	74	33	1.0	45	11	23	66
Grenada	0.786						..	..	..	..	..
Guatemala	0.591	46	65	48	57	36	0.8	41	50	18	32
Guyana	0.622	56	65	..		..	0.8	35	27	26	47
Haiti	0.362	42	57	24	45	..	..	31	68	9	23
Honduras	0.578	47	68	57	75	39	..	43	38	15	47
Jamaica	0.721	63	74	100	88	36	1.2	53	26	24	50
Mexico	0.842	57	71	80	93	35	1.5	75	23	29	48
Nicaragua	0.611	47	67				1.5	62	46	16	38
Panama	0.856	61	73	88	94	38	9.4	53	27	14	59
Paraguay	0.723	64	70	86	96	30	..	52	48	21	31
Peru	0.709	48	66	77	92	35	..	72	35	12	53
Saint Kitts/ Nevis	0.873						..	41	..	..	..
Saint Lucia	0.732						..	47	..	..	..
Saint Vincent	0.761						..	43	..	..	..
Suriname	0.762	60	70				0.6	49	20	20	60
Trinidad and Tob.	0.872	64	72			19	2.1	71	10	33	57
Uruguay	0.881	68	73	100	100	31	7.5	90	5	22	73
Venezuela	0.859	60	72	81	95	23	1.1	92	13	25	62

Source: UNDP, Human Development Report (HDR) 1995 except for adult literacy rate which is from HDR 1996 and urban population which is from UNICEF 1996.
[a] The "Human Development Index" combines national income with two social indicators, adult literacy and life expectancy, to give a composite measure of human progress.

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