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Table II.1 Ratification of multilateral environmental agreements ............................................ 96
Table II.2 Latin America and the Caribbean (14 countries): environmental framework
laws, legislation on environmental impact assessment, legal definition of
environmental damage and incorporation of the principle of participation
in environmental law-making .................................................................................. 99
Table II.3 Latin America and the Caribbean: highest environmental authorities ..................... 100
Table II.4 Latin America and the Caribbean: known species as a percentage
of the world’s known species ................................................................................... 114
Table II.5 Latin America and the Caribbean: forest area and annual rates of
change, 1990-<strong>20</strong>10, and percentage of global forest area ........................................ 123
Table II.6 Agricultural productivity losses according to climate change scenario A2 ............. 130
Table II.7 Production and disposal of solid waste in Latin American megacities .................... 143
Table III.1 Latin America and the Caribbean: illiteracy rate among indigenous
and non-indigenous populations .............................................................................. 166
Table III.2 Latin America and the Caribbean: member organizations of the World
Business Council for Sustainable Development ...................................................... 171
Table IV.1 Number of threatened and extinct species in the Caribbean subregion, <strong>20</strong>11 ......... 184
Table V.1 Disbursements of net official <strong>development</strong> assistance (ODA) to developing
countries and Latin America and the Caribbean, 1990-<strong>20</strong>10 ................................... <strong>20</strong>1
Table V.2 Flow, variation and share of global net foreign direct investment,
by region, <strong>20</strong>07-<strong>20</strong>10 ............................................................................................... <strong>20</strong>4
Figures
Figure I.1 Latin America and the Caribbean (19 countries): poverty and indigence,
1980-<strong>20</strong>11 ................................................................................................................ 27
Figure I.2 Latin America and the Caribbean: employment, unemployment and Gini
coefficient, around 1990 and most recent year ........................................................ 27
Figure I.3 Latin America and the Caribbean and OECD: human <strong>development</strong> index
1990, <strong>20</strong>00, <strong>20</strong>05 and <strong>20</strong>10 ...................................................................................... 28
Figure I.4 Latin America and other regions of the world: Gini coefficient,
around <strong>20</strong>09.............................................................................................................. 28
Figure I.5 Latin America (17 countries): multidimensional poverty rates, <strong>20</strong>00-<strong>20</strong>09 ............ 29
Figure I.6 Latin America (18 countries): population aged <strong>20</strong>-24 with complete
secondary education by per capita income and sex, around <strong>20</strong>08............................ 31
Figure I.7 Latin America and the Caribbean (9 countries): distribution of PISA reading
achievement levels among students aged 15 by index of socioeconomic
and cultural status (ISEC) of their families, <strong>20</strong>09 .................................................... 32
Figure I.8 Latin America (18 countries): average monthly labour income of employed
population aged 15-29, 30-64 and 15 and over, by level of education .................... 32
Figure I.9 Latin America and the Caribbean: proportion of national, urban and rural
population using an improved drinking water source and an improved
sanitation facility, 1990-<strong>20</strong>08 ................................................................................... 34
Figure I.10 Mexico: work time in population aged 15 <strong>years</strong> and over by sex and fuel
most used for cooking, <strong>20</strong>09 .................................................................................... 36
Figure I.11 Latin America and the Caribbean: urban population living in slums,
1990-<strong>20</strong>10 ................................................................................................................ 38
Figure I.12 Costa Rica and Guatemala: epidemiological transition, 1965-<strong>20</strong>06 ........................ 47
Figure I.13 Number of undernourished people in the world and in Latin America
and the Caribbean, 1990-1992 to <strong>20</strong>10 .................................................................... 47