Growth Rate Of Labor Force Research Articles

Questions and Sources for Exploring the Standard of Living

C OMPARATIVE standards of living is a topic of intense interest today. How well or how badly ordinary people fare in their day-to-day existence is one of the most powerful measures of national economic and political performance. An index developed by the Population Crisis Committee, a private, nonprofit, Washington-based organization, last year ranked I30 nations on ten measures of human welfare: (i) gross national product per capita, (2) inflation rate, (3) demand for new jobs (growth rate of labor force), (4) urban population pressures (growth rate of urban population), (5) infant mortality, (6) daily per capita calorie supply as a percentage of total physical requirements, (7) access to clean drinking water, (8) energy consumption per capita, (9) adult literacy, and (io) personal freedom/governance. Thirty countries, including i i