Shlomo Shamir and the news agencies
This is the sixth year in a row that Canada has been ranked at the top of the list of countries
It's worth living in, and Norway is still the country that gives
Women receive the best treatment, according to the Human Development Report
of the UN for the year 99 published yesterday. As every year, the review
Ranks 147 countries according to the quality of life in them, as it is expressed
In health insurance, life expectancy, education and income.
At the other end of the ranking are the most backward countries
humane; From bottom to top: Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ethiopia,
Burkina Faso, Burundi, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea,
Mali and the Central African Republic. Israel is there
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Inequality in the quality of life of women and men exists in all countries.
In this area, Canada drops to fourth place, and the USA is in place
the eighth. The index examines the number of women in parliament and the government, some of them
holding professional or technical positions and their salary in relation
per capita income.
From the review it also becomes clear that a high income is not necessarily a guarantee of creation
Opportunities for women: South Africa and Costa Rica surpass France,
Ranked 36th and Israel surpasses Japan.
In the last decade there have been significant improvements in life expectancy and knowledge
Read and write, but poverty is spreading - also in countries like Benin, Nepal,
or Nigeria, but also in rich countries. In Denmark, for example, you expect
The average life expectancy is 76 years, but 13% of the population is not
Reaching the age of 60 in Ireland, 23% of the population do not know
to read, and in the USA the salary of almost 20% of the population is below
to the poverty line. Poverty levels in Great Britain, Ireland and the USA are high
more than in other industrialized countries.
16 countries suffered a significant retreat in the field of health insurance,
The report reveals, and blames it on the effect of AIDS in the south and east
Africa and the economic stagnation in the former USSR and Eastern Europe.
As for the use of the Internet, it was stated in the report that in '88 they were connected
The Internet only has 100 computers, while in '98 their number reached 36
one million. "A new kind of gap is emerging: for global networks
Mostly those with the means are connected, and almost without it being felt, all
The rest remain out of the game." About 91% of those used on the Internet are
From the member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which includes
Only 19% of the world's population.
"Young, rich, white, educated and male", this is the surfer's profile
The typical one, who usually also speaks English. 80% of the sites
The Internet is written in English, while only one in ten residents
The world speaks English. The price of a computer is on average equal to a salary
that a Bangladeshi resident earns for 8 years, while a US resident has enough
in one monthly salary to buy a computer.
More data from the UN report:
* The wealth of the 200 richest people in the world exceeds their income
shared by 41% of the world's population.
* The wealth of the three richest people in the world is higher than the combined GDP of
About 35 of the poorest countries, with 600 million inhabitants.
* In about 80 countries, the per capita income is lower than a decade ago.
* 20% of the earth's inhabitants, all from developed countries, control over
66% of global GDP, and 74% of telephone lines.
* The income from the activity of organized crime in the world is estimated at 1,500
Billion dollars.
* American films are 70% of the European cinema market.
* Non-American films are 3% of the US film market.
© Published in "Haaretz" on 13/07/1999
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