The table below summarizes Table 2. It shows clearly that those countries with lower average tariff rates generally tend to have a higher GDP per capita and a higher quality of life. As you go down the list of categories, the GDP per capita decreases and the Quality of Life Index deteriorates (higher index denotes lower quality of life.)

This table breaks down the total list of countries into 14 categories, ranked according to the "Weighted Average Tariff" from column 5. The breaking points are partly arbitrary, out of necessity, but each category contains at least 7 countries and no more than 14, and as much as possible the breaking points are set where there is a break in the "Weighted Average Tariff". This table indicates the average GDP and quality-of-life index for each of the 14 categories of countries and shows the general pattern more clearly, which is that higher tariffs are generally correlated to a lower GDP per capita and lower quality of life.

Summary of Table 2

Averages from each of 14 categories of countries ranked according to "Weighted Average Tariff" (Column 5) from the most free-trade to the least.

1	2	3	4
Category & number of countries in each group	Weighted Average Tariff (range for this group) - col. 5	Average GDP per capita	Average Quality of Life Ranking
01: top 7 countries	00.0 - 01.5	22,829	24.7
02: next 12 countries	02.2 - 02.9	09,838	57.6
03: next 14 countries	03.1 - 03.9	07,386	57.7 (10)*
04: next 10 countries	04.0 - 04.9	06,797	47.1 (9)*
05: next 12	05.0 - 06.9	05,516	63.7 (10)*
06: next 7	07.1 - 07.9	03,098	78.6
07: next 7	08.3 - 08.9	01,363	76.3 (4)*
08: next 13	09.4 - 10.6	02,572	64.6 (9)*
09: next 11	11.2 - 11.9	02,490	64.8 (5)*
10: next 9	12.0 - 12.8	00,977	74.5 (4)*
11: next 14	13.0 - 14.9	02,013	78.7 (3)*
12: next 8	15.1 - 15.9	00,674	91.4 (5)*
13: next 7 countries	16.5 - 18.6	01,684	67.3 (3)*
14: bottom 8 countries	21.0 - 37.0	03,306	72.8 (4)*

*The Quality of Life listing does not give Q of L indexes for every country. So in column 4 the number in parenthesis indicates the number of countries in that category for which a Quality of Life index is given, and these indexes are the ones used to compute the Q of L average for that group of countries. Obviously if the sample number is only 3, the average ranking for that group is less representative than for a sampling of 10.

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