ABSTRACT
This chapter uses the proposed priority indicators to assess the current state of fourteen major countries. As well as providing information about these countries, these statistics are the basis discussion the differences in practice between using economic indicators such as GNP and using the other indicators advocated in this book. These fourteen countries represent 66 per cent of the world's people, almost twice as many as all other countries put together. The years for which information quoted here are generally: 1970, 1980, and 1985; and where more recent information is available, the most recent available estimate has also been included. In attempting to compile this data, discovered that a great deal of it is not available, and so there are inevitably many gaps in the tables. Some of the reasons for these have already been referred to in and, in the course of discussing specific indicators.
