Under Dalai Lama’s rule over Tibet

• 80-95% of the population were serfs, some monasteries owned thousands of serfs
• Disobedient serfs endured torture including having their eyes being gouged out
• The 14th Dalai Lama’s family owned 27 manors and 6000 serfs
• 95% of the population were illiterate
• Tibet had a life expectancy of just 35 years
• No modern roads, railways, or electricity infrastructure

Contrast this to modern Tibet after liberation

• Extreme poverty eliminated by 2020
• Literacy rate: 95%+
• Life expectancy: 72-74 years
• Universal primary education, with expansion of universities
• Railway infrastructure to the rest of China, with airports, highways and electrification