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Figure I.3
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN AND OECD: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX
1990, <strong>20</strong>00, <strong>20</strong>05 AND <strong>20</strong>10
1.0
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
Caribbean Latin America OECD Latin America and
the Caribbean
1990 <strong>20</strong>00 <strong>20</strong>05 <strong>20</strong>10
Source: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), “Human Development Index. International Human Development
Indicators” [online] http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/tables/default.html [date of reference: 21 December <strong>20</strong>11].
Figure I.4
LATIN AMERICA AND OTHER REGIONS OF THE WORLD: GINI COEFFICIENT,
AROUND <strong>20</strong>09 a
0.7
0.6
0.59 0.59
0.5
0.54
0.4
0.41
0.41
0.47
0.45
0.41
0.3
0.32 0.32
0.2
0.30
0.29 0.27
0.25
0.1
0.52 0.44 0.41 0.38 0.38 0.35 0.33
0.0
Latin America
and the
Caribbean
(18)
Sub-
Saharan
Africa
(37)
East Asia
and the
Pacific
(10)
North Africa
and Middle
East
(9)
South
Asia
(8)
Eastern
Europe and
Central Asia
(21)
OECD b
(<strong>20</strong>)
Average
Maximum
Minimum
Source: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), on the basis of special tabulations of data from
household surveys conducted in the respective countries; World Bank, World Development Indicators [online]
http://databank.worldbank.orgddp/home.do.
a
The regional data are expressed as simple averages, calculated using the latest observation available in each country for the
<strong>20</strong>00-<strong>20</strong>09 period.
b
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.