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The United Nations Development Programme's "Human Development Report"
contains interesting statistics on the quality of life in 174
countries, including economic measures, education, health & life
expectancy and gender participation in the economy.  It is available
on the web at:

http://www.undp.org/hdro/report.html

For the statistically-minded, it puts national achievements in
perspective.  I just ran across it, and thought I'd share. 

As expected, the USA ranks very high on most of the quality stats.
Here are a few, mostly 1997 stats:

HEALTH
  Life expectancy at birth:  76.7 years, (Japan leads at 80)
  Infant mortality (per 1000 live births):  7  (Norway & Japan are 4)
  Maternal mortality rate (per 100,000 live births):  12  (Canada,
Norway and Switzerland lead at 6)

EDUCATION
  Education spending % of GDP:  5.4%  (Canada, Norway and Sweden,
Denmark and New Zealand exceed 7%) 

ECONOMIC
  Per capita GDP:  29080  (Luxembourg is 44690, Switzerland 43060,
Norway is 36100 and Japan 38160)
  Female share of earned income % (1998 report):  40%  (Sweden is 45%,
Finland, Norway and Iceland 42%)

Enjoy!

John

John Caldeira
Dallas, Texas            jcaldeira@earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~jcaldeira/beekeeping/