Errata

Abstract

In this case we highlight an important fall in the median of the TMIn in the Semi-arid Region, from 94.2 to 27.2 per thousand live births, and also an approximation to the median of the rest of the country. This approximation also takes place with the TMI and life expectancy at birth. There are also important differences in the indicators of poverty, illiteracy and access to piped water, but even so the differences are diminishing, similarly to those in the other indicators assessed. For the IDHM, in 2010 the median in the Semi-arid Region was 0.591, that is to say 50% of the municipalities had an IDHM less than or equal to 0.591, which translates as 'low' or 'very low'. This advance is an important contrast when compared with the year 1991, when 50% of the municipalities had an IDHM of 0.291 (very low), or less. The other municipalities of Brazil had better levels in 2010 (0.688 considered average, low and very low), an important increase compared to 1991 (0.414 considered very low). When we compare the medians of the years 1991 and 2010, we see in the municipalities of the Semi-arid Region a great reduction in child mortality (TMI) from 72.7 in 1991 to 25.2 per thousand live births in 2010, and also a reduction in inequality, seen in the movement of the central circle that has become thinner and moved in direction of the central axis of the triangle.