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GLOBAL
PROGRESS IN ECONOMIC AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
1950-2000
|
Item |
1950 |
|
1998 or
1999 |
| Average income
per capita (1990 dollars)a |
|
|
|
|
World |
2,114 |
|
5,709 |
|
Developing countries |
1,093 |
|
3,102 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Average
longevity (years) |
|
|
|
|
World |
49 |
|
66 |
|
Developing countries |
44 |
|
64 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Share of
population living on less than $2 a day |
|
|
|
|
World |
63% |
|
40% b |
|
Developing countries |
n.a. |
|
n.a. |
|
|
|
|
|
| Share of
population living on less than $1 a day |
|
|
|
|
World |
42% |
|
17% b |
|
Developing countries |
n.a. |
|
26% |
|
|
|
|
|
| Share of
population literate |
|
|
|
|
World |
54% |
|
79% |
|
Developing countries |
40% |
|
75% |
|
|
|
|
|
| Infant
mortality (deaths per 1,000 live births) |
|
|
|
|
World |
156c |
|
54 |
|
Developing countries |
179c |
|
59 |
a. At purchasing power parity.
b. In 1992.
c. In 1950-55.
Published by the United Nations
Department of Public Information,
DPI/2171/G — June 2001
Sources:
Angus Maddison, The World Economy: A
Millennial Perspective (Paris: OECD, 2001), pp. 31, 126;
F. Bourguignon and C. Morrison, The Size Distribution of Income among
World Citizens 1820-1990 (mimeo, 1999);
World Bank, World Development Report 2000/2001 (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2001);
UNESCO, World Illiteracy at Mid-Century (Paris, 1957) and Education
for All Year 2000 Assessment (New York, 2000);
World Bank World Development Indicators (Washington, 2001);
United Nations, World Population Prospects: The 1996 Revision
(New York, 1997).
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