This file defines minimum and maximum statistics per race.
The first row (titles of columns ) is filled by the names of defined characteristics of PC (like MIN_STR = minimum strength).
The first column is filled by race names.
The crossings of the certain identifiers indicate what are intervals for statistics of PC with chosen race - used for character creation.
In BG2EE we have:

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         MIN_STR  MAX_STR  MIN_DEX  MAX_DEX  MIN_CON  MAX_CON  MIN_INT  MAX_INT  MIN_WIS  MAX_WIS  MIN_CHR  MAX_CHR
HUMAN    3        18       3        18       3        18       3        18       3        18       3        18
DWARF    8        18       3        18       11       18       3        18       3        18       3        18
ELF      3        18       6        18       7        18       8        18       3        18       8        18
GNOME    6        18       3        18       8        18       6        18       3        18       3        18
HALF_ELF 3        18       6        18       6        18       4        18       3        18       3        18
HALFLING 7        18       7        18       10       18       6        18       3        18       3        18
HALFORC  3        18       3        18       3        18       3        18       3        18       3        18