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The World Economy at the Beginning of 1998

Table A.6. Developing countries: rates of growth of GDP, 1981-1998
(Annual percentage change)

  1981-1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997a 1998b
Developing countriesc of which: 2.3 3.3 5.1 5.2 5.6 4.6 5.7 5.7 5   
Africa 1.9 0.8 -0.3 -0.4 1.9 2.7 4.4 3.1 4   
Latin America and the Caribbean 1.0 3.6 3.0 3.6 5.5 -0.1 3.7 5.2 3½
Western Asia -2.2 -5.0 5.5 4.3 -0.9 4.1 4.8 5.9 4¾
Eastern and southern Asia 7.2 6.9 7.8 7.9 8.6 8.2 7.4 6.5 6¼
  Region excluding China of which: 6.6 6.2 5.6 5.9 7.0 7.3 6.5 5.2 4½
    East Asia 7.1 7.2 6.0 6.5 7.6 7.6 6.6 5.2 4   
    South Asia 5.3 2.9 4.2 3.9 5.2 6.2 6.0 5.3 6   
                   
Memo items:                  
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding Nigeria and South Africa) 1.7 -0.4 -1.1 -2.7 1.2 4.0 5.0 4.7 4¾
                   
Least developed countries 2.1 -0.5 0.7 -0.8 1.7 4.7 4.9 4.7 4¾
15 largest developing economies                  
  Argentina -1.4 8.9 8.7 6.4 7.4 -4.6 4.4 7.8 4½
  Brazil 1.5 0.9 -0.8 4.1 5.8 4.1 3.0 3.5 1   
  China 9.1 9.2 14.2 13.5 12.6 10.5 9.7 9.3 10   
  Hong Kong, China 6.7 5.1 6.3 6.1 5.3 4.7 4.8 5.5 4   
  India 5.3 2.0 4.0 3.9 5.4 6.7 6.4 5.8 6½
  Indonesia 5.5 7.0 6.5 6.5 7.5 8.1 7.8 6.0 3½
  Iran (Islamic Republic of) 2.8 6.0 6.0 2.6 1.8 4.2 5.0 3.5 2¼
  Israel 2.8 6.2 6.6 3.4 6.6 7.1 4.5 2.0 2¾
  Republic of Korea 9.1 9.1 5.1 5.8 8.6 8.9 7.1 6.0 3   
  Mexico 1.7 4.3 3.7 1.9 4.6 -6.2 4.1 6.8 5   
  Saudi Arabia -2.9 6.0 3.0 1.6 -2.7 -0.2 4.0 2.4 1½
  South Africa 1.5 -1.0 -2.2 1.3 2.7 3.4 3.1 2.0 3   
  Taiwan Province of China 7.9 7.6 6.8 6.3 6.5 6.1 5.6 6.0 5½
Thailand 7.8 8.5 7.8 8.3 8.7 8.6 6.4 -1.5 2   
Turkey 4.3 0.8 5.0 8.1 -6.1 8.0 7.0 6.0 5   
Source: UN/DESA.

a Preliminary estimates.
b Forecast, based in part on Project LINK.
c Covers countries that account for 98 per cent of the population of all developing countries. Home | Search | Parliament || Governments | Regions | Issues

Copyright © United Nations
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Comments and suggestions: esa@un.org
29 December 1997

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