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Rural Poverty Report 2011
TABLE 1 Macroeconomic and agricultural performance (cont.)
Variable GDP per capita Average growth GDP per capita
United States dollars (2000)
(percentage per annum)
Source World Development Indicators (WDI) Calculations from WDI
Period Closest 1988 Closest 1998 Closest 2008 1980s 1990s 2000s
South Africa 3 223 2 975 3 764 -0.9 -0.4 2.8
Sri Lanka 541 799 1 199 2.8 4.3 3.5
Sudan 265 332 532 -0.1 3.1 2.1
Suriname 1 929 1982 2 662 -1.9 -0.7 0.7
Swaziland 1 039 1257 1 559 4.5 1.5 2.4
Syrian Arab Republic 1 004 1242 1 289 -1.1 2.5 1.4
Thailand 1 154 1827 2 645 6.0 3.6 4.3
Togo 278 266 245 -2.3 -0.4 -0.8
Tonga 1 294 1472 1664 2.1 2.3 1.5
Trinidad and Tobago 4 907 5706 10 981 -3.4 2.6 1.9
Tunisia 1 418 1876 2760 1.1 3.1 2.9
Turkey 3 152 4022 5240 3.2 2.0 2.8
Uganda 172 236 348 -0.1 3.4 1.1
United Republic
of Tanzania 256 257 362 2.1 0.0 1.4
Uruguay 5 452 7281 8788 -0.5 2.5 1.6
Venezuela (Bolivarian
Republic of) 5 195 5132 5 963 -1.8 0.1 0.1
Viet Nam 210 364 647 2.3 5.9 3.6
Yemen 447 513 558 . 1.5 .
Zambia 413 308 387 -2.0 -2.0 -0.8
Zimbabwe 608 680 450 0.8 -0.6 -1.1
Asia and the Pacific 403 684 1 306 5.0 5.7 5.1
East Asia 360 798 1 894 7.8 9.3 8.0
Oceania 819 913 904 -0.7 1.5 0.5
South Asia 345 471 760 2.9 3.2 3.3
South East Asia 703 996 1 426 3.0 3.5 3.6
Sub-Saharan Africa 565 520 632 -0.7 -0.6 0.6
Eastern Africa 253 254 314 -0.1 0.3 0.7
Southern Africa 2 981 2 814 3 583 -0.5 -0.1 2.9
Middle Africa 504 370 524 -0.7 -4.7 -0.5
Western Africa 338 349 422 -1.4 0.2 0.4
Latin America and
the Caribbean 3 528 3 992 4 838 -0.5 1.6 1.4
Caribbean 1 876 2 159 2 901 1.4 2.7 2.0
Central America 3 904 4 568 5 450 -0.5 1.9 1.2
South America 3 491 3 887 4 727 -0.7 1.4 1.4
Middle East and
North Africa 1 645 1 864 2 476 1.6 3.8 2.3
Middle East 2 527 2 675 3 739 1.9 6.2 2.4
North Africa 1 091 1 227 1 639 1.4 1.8 2.3