The document is the copyright page and contents page for the 2012/13 edition of the Africa Development Indicators publication by the World Bank. It lists the copyright holder as the World Bank and provides details on rights and permissions for use and translation of the content. The contents page provides an outline of the indicators included in the three parts of the publication covering basic country data, Millennium Development Goals, and development outcomes in Africa.
This report offers a comprehensive overview of the situation in the United States focusing on the business perspective. The United States remains one of the world’s key economic players. With a real GDP per capita of US$62,479.3, this high-income country occupied 6th place in a 2019 global comparison. The U.S. was home to about 329.1 million people in 2019 and is renowned for its extensive entertainment industry.
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Government structure, overview of stability and threats, and the political environment
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This report offers a comprehensive overview of the situation in the United States focusing on the business perspective. The United States remains one of the world’s key economic players. With a real GDP per capita of US$62,479.3, this high-income country occupied 6th place in a 2019 global comparison. The U.S. was home to about 329.1 million people in 2019 and is renowned for its extensive entertainment industry.
What's included?
Economic conditions (incl. COVID-19 economic impact), public finances, and detailed information on the labor force
Demographics, consumption, and income
Imports, exports, foreign direct investments
Fitch Solutions operational risk indexes
Business culture and local habits
Government structure, overview of stability and threats, and the political environment
Territorial CO2 emissions, energy shares, and PM2.5 exposure
WORLD INVESTMENT REPORT 2020 BY UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELO...MYO AUNG Myanmar
WORLD INVESTMENT REPORT 2020
UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT UNCTAD
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Global foreign direct investment projected to plunge 40% in 202016 June 2020
COVID-19 causes steep drop in investment flows, hitting developing countries hardest. Recovery is not expected before 2022, says new UNCTAD report.
US tourism report is Stark Tourism Forum's compilation of data from various sources on US tourism. It gives a clear picture of the status of tourism in US and has the latest available statistics
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Trends and developments Country-level developments Since the 1960s and through the early 1990s, South Africa had been an increasingly isolated economy due to sanctions imposed against its apartheid policies. Following the end of apartheid in 1994 and the country’s first democratic elections, expectations were that foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into South Africa would grow strongly.
This view gained traction based on the notion that South Africa was seen as the gateway to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with its potential consumer base of some 900 million people. Having a financial system more aligned to those in developed economies than to those in emerging markets, improved macro-economic fundamentals in several respects and a relatively extensive infrastructure also added to an expectation that South Africa’s economic reach could stretch beyond SSA, giving further impetus to inflows of FDI. South Africa’s attractiveness as a destination for FDI has, however, been mixed.
This is in part due to its prevailing “dual economy” which is comparable in several respects to an industrialized economy but in several others resembles a developing one. South Africa has a sound regulatory and legislative environment for investment, a sophisticated business sector and globally competitive financial markets, but it also has pervasive poverty, high income inequality, challenges in health care and education, and inefficient labor markets.
An inadequately educated workforce, restrictive labor regulations, poor labor-employer relations and low levels of productivity relative to the cost of labor constitute some of the most problematic challenges facing business in South Africa. Furthermore, South Africa, with a gross national savings rate of 16.5% of GDP, ranks 87th (out of 144 countries) in terms of the savings rate and compares poorly with its companion economies in the BRICS group. In Africa, fifteen countries have a higher gross national savings rate than South Africa.
IFDI is thus much needed to offset low domestic investment and to finance technological transformation. These differing conditions and the policy The existence of a “dual economy and society” in South Africa was first mooted by President Thabo Mbeki during his 2003 State of the Nation address, available at: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2003/03021412521001.htm. South Africa’s auditing and reporting standards and the regulation of its securities exchange rank number one in the world and its banks have been ranked second in terms of their soundness. See World Economic Forum, The Global Competitiveness Report 2011-2012 (Geneva: World Economic Forum, 2011). Half of South Africans live on less than R500 (approximately $60) per month.
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Where the Europeans used to have colonies across the globe, the United States developed an economic hegemony in the years after World War Two. US military might and economic clout guaranteed allies in the fight against communism. Another way of looking at the contest between the USSR and the USA is that industrialized nations need both access to natural resources and people to sell their products to. As China has grown in economic clout it has followed the path of the Brits and the Yanks by spreading cash around the Third World in return for oil contracts, mineral rights, and access to markets. Where locals everywhere across the globe used to both envy and resent the Brits and then the Yanks, they now envy and resent the Chinese. An all too accurate complaint in Africa is that China is actively working to inhibit industrial development in Africa because they want African resources and they don’t want industrial competition with cheap African labor. An issue for South Africa is if they can ante up $10 Billion to have an equal share of bank power alongside the Chinese.
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Trends and developments Country-level developments Since the 1960s and through the early 1990s, South Africa had been an increasingly isolated economy due to sanctions imposed against its apartheid policies. Following the end of apartheid in 1994 and the country’s first democratic elections, expectations were that foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into South Africa would grow strongly.
This view gained traction based on the notion that South Africa was seen as the gateway to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with its potential consumer base of some 900 million people. Having a financial system more aligned to those in developed economies than to those in emerging markets, improved macro-economic fundamentals in several respects and a relatively extensive infrastructure also added to an expectation that South Africa’s economic reach could stretch beyond SSA, giving further impetus to inflows of FDI. South Africa’s attractiveness as a destination for FDI has, however, been mixed.
This is in part due to its prevailing “dual economy” which is comparable in several respects to an industrialized economy but in several others resembles a developing one. South Africa has a sound regulatory and legislative environment for investment, a sophisticated business sector and globally competitive financial markets, but it also has pervasive poverty, high income inequality, challenges in health care and education, and inefficient labor markets.
An inadequately educated workforce, restrictive labor regulations, poor labor-employer relations and low levels of productivity relative to the cost of labor constitute some of the most problematic challenges facing business in South Africa. Furthermore, South Africa, with a gross national savings rate of 16.5% of GDP, ranks 87th (out of 144 countries) in terms of the savings rate and compares poorly with its companion economies in the BRICS group. In Africa, fifteen countries have a higher gross national savings rate than South Africa.
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growth outlook
Recent financial market turbulence exposes vulnerabilities in several developing economies
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5. Contents iii
Foreword vii
Acknowledgments ix
Indicator tables 1
Users guide 3
Part I. Basic indicators and national and fiscal accounts
1. Basic indicators
1.1 Basic indicators 7
2. National and fiscal accounts
2.1 Gross domestic product, nominal 8
2.2 Gross domestic product, nominal 9
2.3 Gross domestic product, nominal 10
2.4 Gross domestic product per capita, real 11
2.5 Gross domestic product per capita growth 12
2.6 Gross national income, nominal 13
2.7 Gross national income, World Bank Atlas method 14
2.8 Gross national income per capita, World Bank Atlas method 15
2.9 Gross domestic product deflator (U.S. dollar series) 16
2.10 Consumer price Index 17
2.11 Consumer price index, growth 18
2.12 Price indices 19
2.13 Gross domestic savings 20
2.14 Gross national savings 21
2.15 General government final consumption expenditure 22
2.16 Household final consumption expenditure 23
2.17 Final consumption expenditure plus discrepancy 24
2.18 Final consumption expenditure plus discrepancy per capita 25
2.19 Gross fixed capital formation 26
2.20 Gross general government fixed capital formation 27
2.21 Private sector fixed capital formation 28
2.22 External trade balance (exports minus imports) 29
2.23 Exports of goods and services, nominal 30
2.24 Imports of goods and services, nominal 31
2.25 Exports of goods and services as a share of GDP 32
2.26 Imports of goods and services as a share of GDP 33
2.27 Balance of payments and current account 34
2.28 Exchange rates and purchasing power parity 36
2.29 Agriculture value added 38
2.30 Industry value added 39
Contents
6. iv Africa Development Indicators 2012/13
2.31 Services plus discrepancy value added 40
2.32 Central government finances 41
2.33 Central government expenses 43
2.34 Central government revenues 45
2.35 Structure of demand 47
Part II. Millennium Development Goals
3. Millennium Development Goals
3.1 Millennium Development Goal 1: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 48
3.2 Millennium Development Goal 2: achieve universal primary education 51
3.3 Millennium Development Goal 3: promote gender equity and empower women 52
3.4 Millennium Development Goal 4: reduce child mortality 53
3.5 Millennium Development Goal 5: improve maternal health 54
3.6 Millennium Development Goal 6: combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases 55
3.7 Millennium Development Goal 7: ensure environmental sustainability 57
3.8 Millennium Development Goal 8: develop a global partnership for development 59
Part III. Development outcomes
Drivers of growth
4. Private sector development
4.1 Doing Business 61
4.2 Investment climate 64
4.3 Financial sector infrastructure 66
5. Trade and regional integration
5.1 International trade and tariff barriers 68
5.2 Top three exports and share in total exports, 2010 72
5.3 Regional integration, trade blocs 74
6. Infrastructure
6.1 Water and sanitation 74
6.2 Transportation 75
6.3 Information and communication technology 77
6.4 Energy 80
Participating in growth
7. Human development
7.1 Education 84
7.2 Health 86
8. Agriculture, rural development, and environment
8.1 Rural development 90
8.2 Agriculture 92
8.3 Producer food prices 94
8.4 Environment 96
8.5 Fossil fuel emissions 98
7. Contents v
9. Labor, migration, and population
9.1 Labor force participation 100
9.2 Labor force composition 106
9.3 Unemployment 108
9.4 Migration and population 110
10. HIV/AIDS
10.1 HIV/AIDS 112
11. Malaria
11.1 Malaria 116
12. Capable states and partnership
12.1 Aid and debt relief 117
12.2 Status of Paris Declaration indicators 120
12.3 Capable states 122
12.4 Governance and anticorruption indicators 124
12.5 Country Policy and Institutional Assessment ratings 126
12.6 Polity indicators 130
Technical notes 131
Technical notes references 190
Primary data documentation 192
Map of Africa 198
8.
9. Foreword vii
For over a decade, Sub-Saharan Africa has
been experiencing relatively rapid economic
growth, averaging about 5 percent a year.
Emblematic of this growth is the informa-
tion and communications technology (ICT)
revolution in Africa, with over 80 percent
of urban Africans with access to cellphones.
Thanks to economic growth, poverty has
been declining, with the absolute number of
people living on less than $1.25 a day falling
(by about 9 million) for the first time in his-
tory. At the same time, Africa has the lowest
human development indicators, with one in
16 children dying before their fifth birthday.
Striking as they are, these averages mask
the great diversity of the African continent.
This year’s Africa Development Indicators,
with data on 1,700 indicators stretching
back to 1960, provides a detailed picture of
the variety of the continent’s development
experience, across space and over time. For
instance:
• While Africa’s gross national income per
capita was US$1,589 in 2010, it ranged
from US$180 to US$13,720.
• Of the 89 million recorded internet
users in SSA, half of them were in Nige-
ria. Two countries (Kenya and Nigeria)
account for 62 percent of Internet us-
ers. However, Seychelles has the highest
number of Internet users per 100 people.
• Although poverty is declining, Af-
rica has the highest poverty rate in the
world, with 47.5 percent of the popula-
tion living on $1.25 a day. They account
for 30 percent of the world’s poor.
• Thirty-nine countries had child mortali-
ty reductions of over 12 percent over the
last 20 years with the largest decline of
over 50 percent in Malawi, Madagascar,
Eritrea and Liberia.
A central question is why Africa is do-
ing so much better today than it was, say, 20
years ago. The answer includes several fac-
tors, such as debt relief, increased aid, high
commodity prices—and improved macro-
economic policies. These policies are the re-
sult of decisions by African policy makers
who, in turn, are increasingly accountable to
their citizens. And an informed citizenry is
better able to hold its leaders to account.
On its part, the World Bank continues
to make all its data freely available, result-
ing in continually growing use of its online
resources. This volume is part of the Africa
Development Indicators suite of products,
which also includes The Little Data Book on
Africa 2012/13 and The Little Data Book on
Gender in Africa 2012/13, the Africa Develop-
ment Indicators 2012/13 CD-ROM, and a data
query and charting application for mobile ser-
vices. All of these publications help to equip
the public with information, so they can con-
tribute to an evidence-based debate that will
eventually lead to better public policies.
In short, Africa Development Indicators
not only documents Africa’s transformation;
it supports it.
Makhtar Diop
Vice President
The World Bank Group
Africa Region
Foreword
10.
11. Acknowledgments ix
Africa Development Indicators is a product of
the Africa Region of the World Bank.
This report has been prepared by a core
team led by Rose Mungai comprising Fran-
coise Genouille and Ayago Esmubancha
Wambile in the production of this book and
its companions—Africa Development Indica-
tors Online 2012/13, and The Little Data Book
on Africa 2012/13 and The Little Data Book on
Gender in Africa 2012/13. Yohannes Kebede
coordinated the ADI Online Apps platform
while Mapi Buitano coordinated the dissemi-
nation of the book and its companions. Aby
Toure managed the communication aspect.
Francoise Genouille coordinated all stages of
production. The overall work was carried out
under the guidance of Shantayanan Devara-
jan, Chief Economist of the Africa Region.
The technical box contributors were:
• Andrew Dabalen and Rose Mungai (Africa
New Dollar Per Day [PPP] Poverty Esti-
mates [$1.25/day] in 2008 )
• DIME (What’s the Coolest Region for
doing Impact Evaluation? It’s Africa)
• Jos Verbeek and Jose Alejandro Quijada
(Africa and the MDGs: 2015 and Beyond)
• Markus Goldstein (Gender)
• Rabia Ali and Jishnu Das (Gender Differ-
ences in Risks of Death: Africa’s Excess
Female Mortality and Trends Over Time)
• Sumila Gulyani, Ellen Bassett and De-
babrata Talukdar (A Multidimensional
Portrait of Poverty and Living Condi-
tions in Slums)
• Punam Chuhan-Pole and Vijdan Korman
(CPIA results for Africa)
Azita Amjadi, Abdolreza Farivari, Shelley
Lai Fu, Ugendran Machakkalai, Shanmugam
Natarajan, and Malarvizhi Veerappan collab-
orated in the online data production. Mahyar
Eshragh-Tabary, Masako Hiraga, Maurice
Nsabimana, and Soong Sup Lee collaborated
in the update of the live database. Software
preparation and testing for mobile applica-
tions was managed by Shelley Lai Fu, with the
assistance of Ramgopal Erabelly and Parastoo
Oloumi. Federico Escaler and William Prince
collaborated in the production of The Little
Data Book on Africa 2012/13 and The Little
Data Book on Gender in Africa 2012/13.
Jeffrey Lecksell and Bruno Bonansea of
the World Bank’s Map Design Unit coordi-
nated preparation of the maps.
Kenneth Omondi provided administrative
and logistical support. The core would like to
thank the many people who provided useful
comments on the publication. Their feedback
and suggestions helped improve this year’s
edition.
Staff from External Affairs oversaw print-
ing and dissemination of the book and its
companions.
Several institutions provided data to Africa
Development Indicators. Their contribution is
very much appreciated.
EEI provided design direction, editing, and
layout, led by Sheila Gagen; Cindy Peters type-
set the book.
Acknowledgments
12.
13. Indicator tables 1
Indicator tables
Part I. Basic indicators and national and fiscal accounts
1. Basic indicators
1.1 Basic indicators 7
2. National and fiscal accounts
2.1 Gross domestic product, nominal 8
2.2 Gross domestic product, nominal 9
2.3 Gross domestic product, nominal 10
2.4 Gross domestic product per capita, real 11
2.5 Gross domestic product per capita growth 12
2.6 Gross national income, nominal 13
2.7 Gross national income, World Bank Atlas method 14
2.8 Gross national income per capita, World Bank Atlas method 15
2.9 Gross domestic product deflator (U.S. dollar series) 16
2.10 Consumer price Index 17
2.11 Consumer price index, growth 18
2.12 Price indices 19
2.13 Gross domestic savings 20
2.14 Gross national savings 21
2.15 General government final consumption expenditure 22
2.16 Household final consumption expenditure 23
2.17 Final consumption expenditure plus discrepancy 24
2.18 Final consumption expenditure plus discrepancy per capita 25
2.19 Gross fixed capital formation 26
2.20 Gross general government fixed capital formation 27
2.21 Private sector fixed capital formation 28
2.22 External trade balance (exports minus imports) 29
2.23 Exports of goods and services, nominal 30
2.24 Imports of goods and services, nominal 31
2.25 Exports of goods and services as a share of GDP 32
2.26 Imports of goods and services as a share of GDP 33
2.27 Balance of payments and current account 34
2.28 Exchange rates and purchasing power parity 36
2.29 Agriculture value added 38
2.30 Industry value added 39
2.31 Services plus discrepancy value added 40
2.32 Central government finances 41
2.33 Central government expenses 43
2.34 Central government revenues 45
2.35 Structure of demand 47
Part II. Millennium Development Goals
3. Millennium Development Goals
3.1 Millennium Development Goal 1: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 48
3.2 Millennium Development Goal 2: achieve universal primary education 51
3.3 Millennium Development Goal 3: promote gender equity and empower women 52
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3.4 Millennium Development Goal 4: reduce child mortality 53
3.5 Millennium Development Goal 5: improve maternal health 54
3.6 Millennium Development Goal 6: combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases 55
3.7 Millennium Development Goal 7: ensure environmental sustainability 57
3.8 Millennium Development Goal 8: develop a global partnership for development 59
Part III. Development outcomes
Drivers of growth
4. Private sector development
4.1 Doing Business 61
4.2 Investment climate 64
4.3 Financial sector infrastructure 66
5. Trade and regional integration
5.1 International trade and tariff barriers 68
5.2 Top three exports and share in total exports, 2010 72
5.3 Regional integration, trade blocs 74
6. Infrastructure
6.1 Water and sanitation 74
6.2 Transportation 75
6.3 Information and communication technology 77
6.4 Energy 80
Participating in growth
7. Human development
7.1 Education 84
7.2 Health 86
8. Agriculture, rural development, and environment
8.1 Rural development 90
8.2 Agriculture 92
8.3 Producer food prices 94
8.4 Environment 96
8.5 Fossil fuel emissions 98
9. Labor, migration, and population
9.1 Labor force participation 100
9.2 Labor force composition 106
9.3 Unemployment 108
9.4 Migration and population 110
10. HIV/AIDS
10.1 HIV/AIDS 112
11. Malaria
11.1 Malaria 116
12. Capable states and partnership
12.1 Aid and debt relief 117
12.2 Status of Paris Declaration indicators 120
12.3 Capable states 122
12.4 Governance and anticorruption indicators 124
12.5 Country Policy and Institutional Assessment ratings 126
12.6 Polity indicators 130
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Tables
The tables are numbered by section. Coun-
tries are listed alphabetically by subregion
(Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa). In-
dicators are shown for the most recent year
or period for which data are available and, in
most tables, for an earlier year or period (usu-
ally 1980, 1990, 1995, 2000 or 2005 in this
edition). Time-series data are available on the
Africa Development Indicators—CD-ROM and
the World Bank’s Open Data website (http://
data.worldbank.org). The term country, used
interchangeably with economy, does not im-
ply political independence but refers to any
territory for which authorities report sepa-
rate social or economic statistics.
Known deviations from standard defini-
tions or breaks in comparability over time
or across countries are noted in the tables.
When available data are deemed too weak to
provide reliable measures of levels and trends
or do not adequately adhere to international
standards, the data are not shown.
Aggregate measure for region
and sub-classifications
The aggregates are based on the World Bank’s
analytical regional classification for Sub-
Saharan Africa and North Africa, which may
differ from common geographic usage. For-
mer Spanish Sahara and Mayotte are not in-
cluded in any aggregates.
Statistics
Data are shown for economies as they were
constituted in 2010, and historical data are
revised to reflect current political arrange-
ments. Exceptions are noted in the tables.
Additional information about the data
is provided in Primary data documentation,
which summarizes national and internation-
al efforts to improve basic data collection and
gives country-level information on primary
sources, census years, and other background
information.
Data consistency, reliability,
and comparability
Considerable effort has been made to har-
monize the data, but full comparability can-
not be assured, and care must be taken in
interpreting indicators. Many factors affect
data availability, comparability, and reliabil-
ity. Statistical systems in many developing
economies are still weak; statistical meth-
ods, coverage practices and definitions differ
widely and cross-country and intertemporal
comparisons involve complex technical and
conceptual problems that cannot be resolved
unequivocally. Data coverage may be incom-
plete because of circumstances affecting the
collection and reporting of data, such as con-
flicts. Although drawn from sources thought
to be the most authoritative, data should be
construed as indicating trends and character-
izing differences across economies. Discrep-
ancies in data presented in earlier editions of
Africa Development Indicators reflect updates
from countries as well as revisions to histori-
cal series and changes in methodology. Read-
ers are therefore advised not to compare data
series between editions or across World Bank
publications.
Country notes
South Sudan declared its independence on
July 9, 2011. Data for Sudan include South
Sudan unless otherwise noted.
Classification of economies
For operational and analytical purposes the
World Bank’s main criterion for classifying
economies is gross national income (GNI)
per capita (calculated by the World Bank Atlas
method; box 1). Every economy is classified
as low income, middle income (subdivided
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into lower middle and upper middle), or high
income (table 1). Low- and middle income
economies are sometimes referred to as de-
veloping economies. The term is used for
convenience; it is not intended to imply that
all economies in the group are experiencing
similar development or that other economies
have reached a preferred or final stage of
development. Classification by income does
not necessarily reflect development status.
Because GNI per capita changes over time,
the country composition of income groups
may change from one edition of Africa Devel-
opment Indicators to the next. Once the classi-
fication is fixed for an edition, based on GNI
per capita in the most recent year for which
data are available (2010 in this edition), all
historical data presented are based on the
same country grouping.
Low-income economies are those with
a GNI per capita of $1,005 or less in 2010.
Middle-income economies are those with a
GNI per capita of more than $1,005 but less
than $12,275. Lower middle-income and up-
per middle-income economies are separated
at a GNI per capita of $3,976. High-income
economies are those with a GNI per capita of
$12,276 or more.
Alternative conversion factors
The World Bank systematically assesses the
appropriateness of official exchange rates as
conversion factors. An alternative conversion
factor is used when the official exchange rate
is judged to diverge by an exceptionally large
marginfromtherateeffectivelyappliedtodo-
mestic transactions of foreign currencies and
traded products. See Primary data documen-
tation for list of countries using alternative
conversion factors. Alternative conversion
factors are used in the Atlas methodology
and elsewhere in Africa Development Indica-
tors as single-year conversion factors.
Symbols
.. means that data are not available
or that aggregates cannot be cal-
culated because of missing data in
the years shown.
$ means current U.S. dollars unless
otherwise noted.
< means less than
In calculating GNI and GNI per capita in
U.S. dollars for certain operational pur-
poses, the World Bank uses the Atlas con-
version factor. The purpose of the Atlas
conversion factor is to reduce the impact
of exchange rate fluctuations in the cross-
country comparison of national incomes.
The Atlas conversion factor for any year is
the average of the official exchange rate or
alternative conversion factor for that year
and for the two preceding years, adjusted
for difference between the rate of inflation
in the country and that in Japan, the United
Kingdom, the United States, and the euro
area. A country’s inflation rate is measured
by the change in its GDP deflator.
The inflation rate for Japan, the United
Kingdom, the United States, and the euro
area, representing international inflation, is
measured by the change in the “SDR defla-
tor.” The SDR (Special drawing rights or SDRs
are the International Monetary Fund’s unit of
account) is calculated as a weighted aver-
age of these countries GDP deflators in SDR
terms, the weights being the amount of each
country’s currency in one SDR unit. Weights
vary over time because both the composition
of the SDR and the relative exchange rates
for each currency change. The SDR deflator
is calculated in SDR terms first and then con-
verted to U.S. dollars using the SDR to dollar
Atlas conversion factor. The Atlas conversion
factor is then applied to a country’s GNI. The
resulting GNI in U.S. dollars is divided by the
midyear population for the latest of the three
years to derive GNI per capita.
When official exchange rates are deemed
to be unreliable or unrepresentative of the
effective exchange rate during a period, an
alternative estimate of the exchange rate is
used in the Atlas formula below.
The following formulas describe the
procedures for computing the conversion
factor for year t:
and for calculating per capita GNI in U.S.
dollars for year t:
where et* is the Atlas conversion factor (na-
tional currency to the U.S. dollar) for year t,
et is the average annual exchange rate (na-
tional currency to the U.S. dollar) for year t,
pt
is the GDP deflator for year t, pt
S$ is the
SDR deflator in U.S. dollar terms for year t,
Yt
$ is current GNI per capita in U.S. dollars
in year t, Yt
is current GNI (local currency)
for year t, and Nt
is midyear population for
year t.
Box 1 The World Bank Atlas method for converting gross national income to a common denominator
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> means more than
0 or 0.0 means zero or small enough that
the number would round to zero
at the displayed number of decimal
places.
/ in dates, as in 2010/11, means that
the period of time, usually cov-
ers 12 months, but straddles two
calendar years and refers to a crop
year, a survey year or a fiscal year.
- in dates, as in 2010-11, means that
the period of time, refers to 2010
and/or 2011
Data presentation conventions
• A blank means not applicable or, for an
aggregate, not analytically meaningful.
• A billion is 1,000 million.
• A trillion is 1,000 billion.
• Growth rates are in real terms, unless
otherwise specified.
The cutoff date for data for this
publication is August 2012.
However, it must be noted that the
database may have more recent data
by the time of this publication.
Middle income
Low income Lower middle income Upper middle income High income
GNI per capita of
$1,005 or less
GNI per capita higher than
$1,006 and less than $3,975
GNI per capita of $3,976
but less than $12,275
GNI per capita of
$12,276 and over
Benin
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Central Africa Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo, Dem. Rep.
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gambia, The
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mozambique
Niger
Rwanda
Sierra Leone
Somalia
Tanzania
Togo
Uganda
Zimbabwe
Angola
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Congo, Rep.
Côte d’Ivoire
Djibouti
Egypt, Arab Rep.
Ghana
Lesotho
Mauritania
Morocco
Nigeria
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal
South Sudan
Sudan
Swaziland
Zambia
Algeria
Botswana
Gabon
Libya
Mauritius
Namibia
Seychelles
South Africa
Tunisia
Equatorial Guinea
Source: World Bank.
Table 1 World Bank classification of economies, 2010 (GNI per capita)
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