- over 80 percent Christian
- over 80 percent Indo-European speaking
- over 90 percent Caucasian
- infant mortality rate below 10
- per capita GDP of U.S. $10,000 or more
- over 90 percent of people literate
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- 400 or more km of highway per 100 sq km of territory
- less than 15 percent of workforce employed in agriculture
- over 50 percent of people live in towns and cities
- less than 1 percent annual natural population increase
- no totalitarian governments or military coups since 1980
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