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Indicators for Social Aspects of Sustainable Development

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Chapter 3:        Combating poverty                                     3

         -        Unemployment rate                                     3
         -        Head count index of poverty                           9
         -        Poverty gap index                                    14
         -        Squared poverty gap index                            19
         -        Gini index of income inequality                      24
         -        Ratio of average female wage to male wage            28

Chapter 5:        Demographic dynamics and sustainability              31

         -        Population growth rate                               31
         -        Net migration rate                                   34
         -        Total fertility rate                                 38
         -        Population density                                   41

Chapter 36:       Promoting education, public awareness and training   44

         -        Rate of change of school-age population              44
         -        Primary school enrolment ratio--gross                47
         -        Primary school enrolment ratio--net                  51
         -        Secondary school enrolment ratio--gross              55
         -        Secondary school enrolment ratio--net                59
         -        Adult literacy rate                                  63
         -        Children reaching grade 5 of primary education       66
         -        School life expectancy                               70
         -        Difference between male and female school
                  enrolment ratios                                     73
         -        Women per hundred men in the labour force            76
         -        GDP spent on education                               80

Chapter 6:        Protecting and promoting human health                83

         -        Basic sanitation: percent of population with
                  adequate excreta disposal facilities                 83
         -        Access to safe drinking water                        86
         -        Life expectancy at birth                             89
         -        Adequate birth weight                                92
         -        Infant mortality rate                                94
         -        Maternal mortality rate                              98
         -        Nutritional status of children                      102
         -        Immunization against infectious childhood diseases  105
         -        Contraceptive prevalence                            108
         -        Proportion of potentially hazardous chemicals
                  monitored in food                                   112
         -        National health expenditure devoted to
                  local health care                                   118
         -        Total national health expenditure related to GNP    120

Chapter 7:        Promoting sustainable human settlement development  123

         -        Rate of growth of urban population                  123
         -        Per capita consumption of fossil fuel by motor
                  vehicle transport                                   126
         -        Human and economic loss due to natural disasters    129
         -        Percent of population in urban areas                134
         -        Area and population of urban formal and
                  informal settlements                                137
         -        Floor area per person                               140
         -        House price to income ratio                         143
         -        Infrastructure expenditure per capita               147



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