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This rapid and sustained improvement in average living standard has occurred in a country with more than 20percentt of the world's population (population of 1.3 billion people), thus causing China to be the world's second-largest economy as well as lifting 500 million people out of poverty.
Depressed wages and higher taxes mean there will be little improvement in average living standards for a while.
While developing nations share part of the blame, let us not absolve the rich nations of their sins.Kunal Kumar KunduMumbaiSIR – You assert that widening inequalities may be a price worth paying for an increase in average living standards.
That means a fall in average living standards.
Or as the author David Phillips puts it: While an incomplete measure, it is not giving a misleading impression of changes in average living standards.
What rich Western countries face is a relative economic decline, not an absolute fall in average living standards (though a few of their citizens may become worse off).
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When the 20th century ended, men and women in the U.S. were, on average, living close to 30 years longer than when it began.
Singaporean Malays form an underclass, with lower levels of education and lower-paying jobs than the average, living mostly in the mass apartment blocks of government housing.
Berkeley Education's stats reveal that in the United States in 1915 men, on average, lived to be 52.5 years old, while women lived to be 56.8 years old.
"If official forecasts prove correct, men aged 64.5 in 2009 will on average live slightly longer than men aged 63.8 in 2004," he said.
In 1900, Americans, on average, lived to be 47.
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