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Free Market Viewpoint - Indices of Economic Freedom
... The people living in the top one-fifth of countries enjoy an average income of $23,450 and a growth rate in the 1990s of 2.56 percent per year in contrast, the bottom one-fifth ... poorest 10 percent of the population have an average income of just $728 in the lowest ranked countries compared with over $7,000 in the highest ranked countries ... The life expectancy of people living in the highest ranked nations is 20 years longer than for people in the lowest ranked countries ...

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