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Subject: standard of living
Date: 26-Jan-98 at 21:48
From: james m blaut, 70671,2032
TO: INTERNET:SKSANDERrove.iup.edu,INTERNET:SKSANDERrove.iup.edu
Steve Sanderson:
According to Cuban official statistics, the infant mortality rate in Cuba
just before the revolution (1958) was 33 per thousand. In a recent speech
Fidel Castro stated the infant mortality rate now is 7.4. You can check the
UN Demographic Yearbook for confirmation; I haven't looked at it for some
time but I recall that the infant mortality rate given there was very low.
Check it out. Fidel also says that life expectancy at birth in Cuba now is
76. That's close to the US level and well above the level for non-whites in
the US.
Jim Blaut