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. 2015 May 29;45(17):1827–1879. doi: 10.1080/10643389.2014.1000761

Table 3 . Daily wet and dry mass produced by humans from low and high income populations.

  Wet weight Wet weight Dry weight Dry weight
  (g/cap/day) (g/cap/day) (g/cap/day) (g/cap/day)
  High income* Low income* High income* Low income*
Median 126 250 28 38
n 95 17 57 8
Minimum 51 75 12 18
Maximum 796 520 81 62
Skewness 4.178 0.598 2.378 0.098
Std. error of skewness 0.248 0.550 0.327 0.752
Mean 149 243 30 39
St dev 95.0 130.2 11.7 14.1
Variance 9024 16,960 136 201

*Classifications acquired from the 2011 HDI report (UNDP, 2011) where the four tiers were split into two sections with “very high” and “high” comprising the high income classification and “medium” and “low” comprising the low income classification.