Formula 2 was used to calculate the annual growth rates . Refer to the technical notes of Table 2.1 for an explanation of the cohort component method used to calculate the population projections underlying the population growth rate estimates. U.S. Bureau of the Census, International Data Base, 1997. Adult literacy rate reflects the percentage of people aged 15 and above who can, with understanding, both read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life. Gross enrollment ratio is the number of students enrolled in a level of education, whether or not they belong in the relevant age group for that level, as a percentage of the population in the relevant age group for that level.
Primary education provides the basic elements of education at elementary or primary schools.
Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a person can expect to live at current levels of mortality . Definitions Relative social indicators express life expectancy, adult literacy, daily calorie supply, access to safe water and under-five mortality in relation to the corresponding average figures for all industrial countries, which are indexed to equal 100. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a person can expect to live at current levels of mortality . Adult literacy rate reflects the percentage of people aged 15 and above who can, with understanding, both read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life. Daily calorie supply per capita reflects the calorie equivalent of the net food supplies in a country, divided by the population, per day.