Since independence in 1976, per capita output in this Indian Ocean archipelago has expanded to roughly seven times the pre-independence, near-subsistence level, moving the island into the upper-middle income group of countries.
Two and a half million people died of Aids last year in Africa, you've got countries where people are living way below subsistencelevel, population levels are increasing and yet life expectancy is low.
This is income from almost all sources (including tax-exempt bonds, for example), reduced by income taxes and by an allowance for subsistence-level living.