1301 



Figure 9 



Gross National T>roduct for 

 Developed and Developing Countries, 1960-2000 

 (in billions of U.S. dollars, 1971) 



10,000 



8,000- 



6,000 



4,000- 



2,000 



Developed Countries 



1960 



1970 



2000 



Source: Figures for 1960 through 1980 are based on Bureau of 

 Intelligence and Research, Department of State, The 

 World's Product at the Turn of the Decade; Recessional , 

 September 12, 1972, Projections for 1990 and 2000 were 

 arrived at by computing annual growth at 5 percent for 

 developed countries and 6 percent for developing 

 countries. Reproduced from, Robert E. Hunter, Project 

 Director, The United States and the Developing World ; 

 Agenda for Action, 1973 (Washington, D.C.; Overseas 

 Development Council, 1973), p. 124. 



In 1970, Mr. McXamara gave this appraisal of present and future 

 disparity in economic development to the Columbia University Con- 

 ference on International Economic Development : 



The gap between the per capita incomes of the rich nations and the poor 

 nations is widening rather than narrowing, bo.th relatively and absolutely. At 

 the extremes that gap is already more than $3,000. Present projections indicate 

 it may well widen to $9,000 by the end of the century. In the year 2000, per 

 capita income in the United States is expected to be approximately $10,000; in 

 Brazil, $.jOO ; and in India, $200.'" 



On December 23, 1973, James P. Sterba of The New York Times 

 gave this end-of-the-year view of development in an article entitled, 



^Robert S. McNamara, 

 Hevieto (1970). p. 6. 



•The True Dimension of the Task," International Development 



