Financial systems and development

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Angola Bulgaria Albania Mongolia Namibia
1965 1987 1965 1987 1965 1987 1965 1987 1965 1987
5 9 8 9 2 3 1 2 1 1 Population (millions)
13 26 46 68 32 35 42 51 28 54 Urban population (percentage of total)
35 45 69 72 66 72 57 64 45 56 Life expectancy at birth (years)
49 47 15 13 35 27 42 39 46 45 Crude birth rate (per thousand)
29 20 8 12 9 6 12 8 22 13 Crude death rate (per thousand)
13,150 17,780 600 280 2,100 .. 710 100 .. .. Population per physician
6.4 6.4 2.1 1.9 5.3 3.3 5.8 5.4 6.1 6.1 Total fertility rate
193 137 31 15 87 39 90 45 146 106 Infant mortality per 1,000 live births
17 .. .. .. 7 . . 10 .. .. Low birth weight (percent)
1,897 2,716 3,452 3,642 2,389 2,713 2,597 2,847 1,904 1,824 Daily calorie supply, per capita
126 87 78 104 85 95 138 101 114 88 Food production index (1979-81 = 100)
26 . . 102 102 87 93 97 103 . . , Education, primary (female)
39 93 103 103 92 96 98 102 .. .. Education, primary (total)
1,247 .. 111 . . 29 . 1,565 . . 1,824 Area (thousands of square kilometers)
Population projected to year 2000
13 .. 9 .. 4 .. 3 .. 2 (millions)
on this basis, and such instances are footnoted. import duties, and any statistical discrepancies
However, for a few countries in Tables 2 and 3, noted by national compilers, are categorized as
GDP at purchaser values has been replaced by services, etc.
GDP at factor cost. Note that in editions before Partially rebased 1980 series in domestic curren-
1986, GDP at producer prices and GDP at purchaser cies, as explained above, are used to compute the
values were referred to as GDP at factor cost and growth rates in Table 2. The sectoral shares of GDP
GDP at market prices, respectively.
in Table 3 are based on current price series.
The figures for GDP are dollar values converted In calculating the summary measures for each indifrom
domestic currencies using single-year official cator in Table 2, partially rebased constant 1980
exchange rates. For a few countries where the offi- U.S. dollar values for each economy are calculated
cial exchange rate does not reflect the rate effec- for each of the years of the periods covered; the
tively applied to actual foreign exchange transac- values are often aggregated across countries for
tions, an alternative conversion factor is used (and each year; and the least-squares procedure is used
reported in the World Tables). Note that this table to compute the growth rates. The average sectoral
does not use the three-year averaging technique percentage shares in Table 3 are computed from
applied for GNP per capita in Table 1. group aggregates of sectoral GDP in current U.S.
Agriculture covers forestry, hunting, and fishing, dollars.
as well as agriculture. In developing countries with
high levels of subsistence farming, much of agri- Table 4. Agriculture and food
cultural production is either not exchanged or not
exchanged for money. This increases the difficulty The basic data for value added in agriculture are from
of measuring the contribution of agriculture to the World Bank's national accounts series at cur-
GDP and reduces the reliability and comparability rent prices in national currencies. The value added
of such numbers. Industry comprises value added in current prices in national currencies is converted
in mining; manufacturing (also reported as a sub- to U.S. dollars by applying the single-year convergroup);
construction; and electricity, water, and sion procedure, as described in the technical note
gas. Value added in all other branches of economic for Tables 2 and 3.
activity, including imputed bank service charges, The figures for the remainder of this table are
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