Matters of Scale - Some Encouraging Trends
Number of countries that had abolished the death penalty by 1900 | 0 |
Number that had abolished it by 2000 | 66 |
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Number of countries that had voting rights for all adults, in 1900 | 0 |
Number that have full voting rights for all their adults now | 190 |
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Percentage of people in Malaysia who lived in poverty in 1960 | 60 |
Percentage living in poverty now | 14 |
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Child mortality per 1,000 live births in developing countries in 1980 | 168 |
Child mortality in those countries now | 93 |
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Number of countries that had ratified the Convention on Rights of the Child by 1980 | 60 |
Number that had ratified it by 1999 | 191 |
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Agricultural production in Kenya's Machakos district in 1930 | 12 tons per square km |
Production in that district, which increased through use of terracing and
water conservation, in 1987 | 110 tons per square km |
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Sources: Death penalty, universal adult suffrage, child mortality, and Convention on Rights of the Child: United Nations Development
Programme, Human Development Report 2000; Machakos agriculture: World Resources Institute, World Resources 2000-2001.