The table below shows social and economic indicators for four countries in 1994, according to United Nations statistics

The table gives information about four social and economic indicators in Canada, Japan, Peru and Zaire in 1994, according to the United Nations.

The annual income per person was very different. In Japan it was 15,760 dollars and in Canada 11,100 dollars, but in Peru it was only 160 dollars and in Zaire only 130 dollars.

Life expectancy was also higher in the first two countries. People in Japan lived 78 years and people in Canada 76 years, but in Peru only 51 years and in Zaire only 47 years.

The daily calorie supply was 3,326 in Canada and 2,846 in Japan. In Peru it was 1,927 and in Zaire only 1,749, so it was much lower.

The adult literacy rate was 99 per cent in both Canada and Japan. In Peru it was 68 per cent and in Zaire only 34 per cent, which was the lowest number in the table.

In conclusion, Canada and Japan had much better indicators than Peru and Zaire in all four categories.

The table compares Canada, Japan, Peru and Zaire across four social and economic indicators recorded by the United Nations in 1994.

Overall, the four countries divide into two clear pairs on every measure, with Canada and Japan performing substantially better than Peru and Zaire throughout. The disparity is widest by a considerable margin in annual income.

Canada and Japan were closely comparable to one another. Japan recorded the higher income at $15,760 against Canada's $11,100, and marginally the longer life expectancy at 78 years against 76. Canada supplied more calories per person per day, 3,326 compared with 2,846, and adult literacy was identical in both at 99 per cent — effectively universal.

Peru and Zaire were similarly close to each other but at a far lower level. Their incomes stood at just $160 and $130 respectively, meaning the Japanese figure was around a hundred times that of Zaire. Life expectancy was 51 years in Peru and 47 in Zaire, roughly twenty-seven years shorter than in Japan, and daily calorie supply was 1,927 and 1,749, little more than half the Canadian figure. The clearest difference between the two poorer countries was literacy, where Peru's 68 per cent was double Zaire's 34 per cent.

The table sets out four social and economic indicators for Canada, Japan, Peru and Zaire in 1994, as recorded by the United Nations.

Overall, the four countries separate into two pairs — Canada and Japan on one side, Peru and Zaire on the other — and this division holds on every indicator without a single exception or overlap. The gap between the pairs is far wider in income than in anything else, and the two poorer countries resemble each other closely except in literacy.

Canada and Japan differ from one another only marginally. Japan led on income at $15,760 against $11,100 and on life expectancy at 78 years against 76, while Canada supplied considerably more food energy, 3,326 calories daily against 2,846. Adult literacy was near-universal in both, at 99 per cent, and is the one measure on which the two are indistinguishable.

The contrast with the second pair is of a different order altogether. Annual income in Peru and Zaire stood at $160 and $130, so the Japanese figure exceeded Zaire's by roughly a hundred times — a difference of two orders of magnitude, whereas none of the other indicators differs even threefold. Life expectancy was 51 and 47 years, some twenty-seven and thirty-one years short of Japan, and daily calorie supply reached only 1,927 and 1,749, a little over half the Canadian level.

Literacy is the one row on which the poorer pair diverge sharply from each other. Peru recorded 68 per cent, well behind Canada and Japan but double Zaire's 34 per cent, which is comfortably the lowest figure anywhere in the table and the only indicator on which one country stands notably apart from the other three.