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To: KyrosL who wrote (10466)	9/30/2001 12:13:03 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Correlate the statistics with the income per capita. You'll find out that there are very poor countries where life is dangerous. Now look he odd man out: The richest country in the world is the 8th in the ranking. South Africa 1995 41,465,000 75.30 26.60 48.70 n/a Colombia 1996 37,500,000 64.60 50.60 14.00 n/a Estonia 1994 1,499,257 28.21 8.07 20.14 n/a Brazil 1993 160,737,000 19.04 10.58 8.46 n/a Mexico 1994 90,011,259 17.58 9.88 7.70 n/a Philippines 1996 72,000,000 16.20 3.50 12.70 n/a Taiwan 1996 21,979,444 8.12 0.97 7.15 n/a N. Ireland 1994 1,641,711 6.09 5.24 0.85 8.4 United States1999 272,691,000 5.70 3.72 1.98 39.0