2. Real Gross Domestic Product Per
Capita 1870 – 2010
(in 2005 dollars)
$50,000.00
$45,000.00
REAL GDP
$40,000.00
AVERAGE GDP
$35,000.00
$30,000.00
$25,000.00
$20,000.00
$15,000.00
$10,000.00
$5,000.00
$0.00
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3. Real Gross Domestic Product per
Capita and Real Personal
Consumption
AVERAGE AVERAGE
GROSS DOMESTIC PERSONAL
ANNUAL GROWTH ANNUAL GROWTH
DECADE PRODUCT CONSUMPTION
RATE (over the RATE (over the
(billions) EXPENDITURES
decade) decade)
1960 $13,148 $8,358
1970 $17,446 2.83% $11,300 3.02%
1980 $21,521 2.10% $14,021 2.16%
1990 $26,834 2.21% $17,899 2.44%
2000 $32,579 1.94% $22,061 2.09%
2001 $32,352 1.70% $22,390 2.04%

4. Real Gross Domestic Product per Capita
Selected Countries as a Percentage of U.S.
COUNTRY 1980’s 1990’s 2000’s
United
100% 100% 100%
States
Canada 84 83 80
France 79 76 72
Germany 69 78 73
Italy 71 73 69
Japan 67 87 79
Sweden 78 75 70
United
67 71 69
Kingdom

5. Deaths from Select Diseases
per 100,000 Persons
Disease 1940 1980 1990 2000
Tuberculosi
s
45.9 0.9 0.7 0.3
Chronic
liver
disease and
8.6 13.5 10.4 9.5
cirrhosis
Influenza &
Pneumonia
70.3 24.1 32.0 24.3
Diabetes 26.2 15.4 19.2 24.9
Major
cardiovascu
lar diseases
485.7 436.4 368.3 339.3
HIV
NA NA NA 5.2

6. Life Expectancy at Birth
1940 - 2010
YEAR CAUCASIANS AFRICAN AMERICANS
Total Male Female Total Male Female
1940 62.9 60.8 65.2 53.1 51.5 54.9
1950 68.2 65.6 71.1 60.8 59.1 62.9
1960 69.7 66.6 73.1 63.6 61.1 66.3
1970 70.8 67.1 74.7 65.3 61.3 69.4
1980 73.7 70.0 77.4 69.5 65.3 73.6
1990 75.4 71.8 78.8 72.4 68.4 76.3
2000 76.9 74.1 79.5 71.7 68.2 74.9
2010 78.3 75.7 80.8 73.8 70.2 77.2

7. Distribution of Monetary Income
among Families
LOWEST SECOND THIRD FOURTH HIGHEST TOP
YEAR
FIFTH FIFTH FIFTH FIFTH FIFTH 5%
1947 5.0 % 11.9 % 17.0 % 23.1 % 43.0 % 17.5 %
1957 5.1 12.7 18.1 23.8 40.4 15.6
1967 5.5 12.4 17.9 23.9 40.4 15.2
1980 5.2 11.5 17.5 24.3 41.5 15.3
1990 4.6 10.8 16.6 23.8 44.3 17.4
2000 4.3 9.8 15.5 22.8 47.4 20.8

8. Median Real Family Income by Type of
Family 1970’s – 2000’s
(in 1998 dollars)
Annual
FAMILIES 1970 1980 1990 2000 Growth Rate
1970-2010
Married couple Families $45,83 $49,75 $57,14
$41,504 1.07 %
2 4 1
With working wife 48,450 53,235 58,337 67,075 1.08 %
Without working wife 36,720 37,575 37,744 38,363 0.15 %
Male household, no wife 35,568 34,697 36,224 36,233 0.06 %
Female household, no
husband 20,101 20,614 21,116 24,904 0.71 %
All families 38,942 41,637 44,090 49,133 0.77%

9. The Elderly Population
1960’s – 2000’s
PEOPLE AGED 65+ 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Total in millions 16.7 20.1 25.6 31.1 35
As a percentage of the total 11.3 12.5 12.4
9.2% 9.8%
population % % %
As a percentage of the 17.0 17.0 19.0 20.0 21.0
population aged 18-64 % % % % %

10. Changes in Selected Social Indicators
1950’s – 2000’s
SUICIDE
BIRTHS TO DIVORCE MURDER
RATE
DECADE UNMARRIED RATE RATE
(PER
WOMEN (PER 1,000) (PER 100,000)
100,000)
1950 3.9% 2.6 11.4
1960 5.3% 2.2 10.6 5.0
1970 10.7% 3.5 11.6 8.0
1980 18.4% 5.2 11.9 10.2
1990 28.0% 4.7 12.4 9.4
2000 33.0% 4.1 10.7 6.2