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The World Economy at the Beginning of 1998

Table 2: Number of developing countriesa with GDP per capita growth of 3 per cent or more, 1991-1997

    1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997
  No. of countries monitored N P N P N P N P N P N P N P
Developing countries of which: 95 26 44 32 45 28 49 34 72 31 69 38 74 37 73
Latin America 24 6 16 9 20 9 27 9 56 5 17 7 33 8 37
Africa 38 6 8 7 12 4 12 8 11 7 13 15 27 14 33
Eastern and Southern Asia (including China) 18 11 59 12 58 13 62 14 93 14 93 13 94 12 90
Western Asia 15 3 8 4 32 2 29 3 3 5 33 3 35 3 38
Least Developed countries 40 5 7 9 23 8 46 11 42 12 45 12 51 14 56
Source: UN/DESA, including population estimates and projections from World Population Prospects: The 1996 Revision.

Note: N: number of countries that achieved the specified per capita growth; P: percentage of total population of monitored countries in a given group accounted for by countries in this group that achieved the specified per capita growth.

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