World Labour Report, 1997-1998

World Labour Report 1997-98 Industrial relations, democracy and social stability

Table 6. Gross Domestic Product (GDP), population and poverty

	GDP per capita		Population		Population in poverty (%)
	(in 1987 US$) 1994	Annual growth (%) 1980-1994	Total (thousands) 1996	Annual growth (%) 1980-1996	Urban		Rural
	(in 1987 US$) 1994	Annual growth (%) 1980-1994	Total (thousands) 1996	Annual growth (%) 1980-1996	1980	1990	1980	1990

Africa
Algeria	1 894	-0.8	28 784	2.7	20	.	.	25
Angola	.	.	11 185	3.0	.	.	.	65
Benin	352	0.4	5 563	3.0	.	.	65	39
Botswana	.	.	1 484	3.1	40	15	55	38
Burkina Faso	232^a	1.0 ^a	10 780	2.8	.	.	.	90
Burundi	160	-0.9	6 221	2.6	55	5	78	80
Cameroon	634	.	13 560	2.8	15	13	40	24
Cape Verde	564^a	3.2^a	396	2.0	.	.	.	88
Central African Rep.	314^a	-1.7^a	3 344	2.3	.	.	91	.
Chad	160^a	1.7^a	.	2.4	30	15	56	38
Comoros	.	.	632	3.2	.	.	.	50
Congo	998^a	1.3^a	2 668	3.0	.	.	.	80
Congo, Dem. Rep. of	.	.	46 812	3.5	.	.	80	48
Côte d'Ivoire	604	-3.6	14 015	3.4	30	.	26	.
Djibouti	.	.	617	5.0	.	.	51	70
Egypt	675	2.1	63 271	2.3	26	29	19	21
Equatorial Guinea	360	.	410	4.0	.	.	.	47
Eritrea	.	.	3 280	2.0	.	.	.	.
Ethiopia	143	.	58 243	3.0	60	.	65	.
Gabon	.	.	1 106	3.0	.	.	25	41
Gambia	214	-1.2	1 141	3.7	.	.	40	31
Ghana	.	.	17 832	3.2	59	18	37	25
Guinea	403	.	7 518	3.3	.	.	.	70
Guinea-Bissau	.	.	1 091	2.0	.	.	.	75
Kenya	322	0.2	27 799	3.3	10	29	55	46
Lesotho	266	2.6	2 078	2.7	50	11	55	44
Liberia	.	.	2 245	1.1	23	.	23	.
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	.	.	5 593	3.9	.	.	.	.
Madagascar	191	-2.5	15 353	3.3	50	.	50	.
Malawi	104	-2.5	9 845	3.0	25	8	85	85
Mali	234	.	11 134	3.1	27	7	48	42
Mauritania	439	-0.5	2 333	2.6	.	.	.	80
Mauritius	2 020	4.8	1 129	1.0	12	.	12	.
Morocco	.	.	27 021	2.1	28	14	45	17
Mozambique	109	-1.1	17 796	2.4	40	.	70	.
Namibia	1 433	-0.7	1 575	2.7	.	.	.	.
Niger	266^a	-3.7^a	9 465	3.4	.	.	35	28
Nigeria	350	-1.1	115 020	3.0	33	.	40	.
Rwanda	230^a	-2.0^a	5 397	0.3	30	.	60	.
Senegal	.	.	8 532	2.7	.	.	.	70
Sierra Leone	128	-1.0	4 297	1.8	65	.	66	45
Somalia	.	.	9 822	2.4	42	.	70	50
South Africa	1 887	-1.5	42 393	2.4	.	.	.	.
Sudan	.	.	27 291	2.4	.	.	85	67
Swaziland	645	0.0	881	2.9	45	12	50	36
Tanzania, United Rep. of	148	0.1	30 799	3.2	27	43	15	19
Togo	278	-2.8	4 201	3.0	42	.	.	30
Tunisia	1 238	1.4	9 156	2.2	22	10	42	7
Uganda	495	.	20 256	2.8	.	16	.	24
Zambia	225	-3.1	8 275	2.3	26	45	80	87
Zimbabwe	525^a	-0.4^a	11 439	3.0	.	.	.	60

Americas
Argentina	.	.	35 219	1.4	7	15	10	20
Bahamas	.	.	284	1.9	.	.	.	.
Barbados	4 522^a	-0.3^a	261	0.3	23	.	23	.
Belize	1 831^a	2.1^a	219	2.6	.	.	.	65
Bolivia	.	.	7 593	2.2	.	50	86	.
Brazil	1 779	-0.3	161 087	1.8	15	43	47	63
Canada	13 534^a	0.7^a	29 680	1.2	.	.	.	.
Chile	2 705	.	14 421	1.6	12	32	25	34
Colombia	.	.	36 444	2.0	36	38	45	68
Costa Rica	2 086^a	1.7^a	3 500	2.7	10	27	17	28
Cuba	.	.	11 018	0.8	.	.	.	35
Dominican Rep.	738	.	7 961	2.1	45	.	43	78
Ecuador	1 070^a	-0.4^a	11 699	2.4	40	24	65	.
El Salvador	.	.	5 796	1.5	.	43	76	56
Guatemala	859	.	10 928	2.9	66	61	74	85
Guyana	451	-0.7	838	0.6	.	.	.	60
Haiti	222	-4.4	7 259	1.9	65	.	80	.
Honduras	829	-0.5	5 816	3.1	14	71	55	84
Jamaica	.	.	2 491	1.0	.	4	51	18
Mexico	1 653^a	-0.6^a	92 718	2.0	36	37	54	55
Nicaragua	.	.	4 238	2.6	.	32	80	76
Panama	2 104^a	0.1^a	2 677	2.0	36	40	50	51
Paraguay	957	-0.3	4 957	2.9	19	.	50	.
Peru	.	.	23 944	2.0	35	52	80	72
Suriname	2 823	-0.7	432	1.2	.	.	.	.
Trinidad and Tobago	3 608	-3.9	1 297	1.1	.	.	40	.
United States	18 345^a	1.5^a	269 444	1.0	.	.	.	.
Uruguay	.	.	3 204	0.6	9	10	21	23
Venezuela	2 646^a	-0.8^a	22 311	2.5	15	31	26	53

Asia
Afghanistan	.	.	20 883	1.7	18	.	36	60
Australia	12 087^a	1.3^a	18 057	1.4	.	.	.	.
Bahrain	.	.	570	3.1	.	.	.	.
Bangladesh	184	.	120 073	1.9	66	34	74	53
Bhutan	.	.	1 812	2.1	.	.	.	90
Brunei Darussalam	.	.	300	2.8	.	.	.	.
Cambodia	.	.	10 273	2.9	.	.	.	.
China	369	.	1 232 083	1.3	2	0	24	12
Fiji	1 799^a	0.7^a	797	1.4	.	.	30	20
Hong Kong (before 1.7.97)	10 818^a	5.1^a	6 191	1.3	.	.	.	.
India	358	3.0	944 580	2.0	40	4	51	48
Indonesia	.	.	200 453	1.8	26	17	44	14
Iran, Islamic Rep. of	2 415	-1.3	69 975	3.7	13	.	38	30
Iraq	.	.	20 607	2.9	.	.	40	30
Japan	21 890^a	2.9^a	125 351	0.4	.	.	.	.
Jordan	1 294	.	5 581	4.1	14	.	17	.
Korea, Dem. People's Rep. of	.	.	22 466	1.5	.	.	.	20
Korea, Rep. of	.	.	45 314	1.1	10	.	9	.
Kuwait	.	.	1 687	1.3	.	.	.	.
Lao People's Dem. Rep.	.	.	5 035	2.9	.	.	.	85
Lebanon	.	.	3 084	0.9	.	.	.	15
Malaysia	.	.	20 581	2.5	13	7	37	19
Maldives	.	.	263	3.2	.	.	.	40
Mongolia	1 167	.	2 515	2.6	.	.	.	.
Myanmar	.	.	45 922	1.9	40	.	40	.
Nepal	188	.	22 021	2.6	55	.	61	.
New Zealand	981^a	0.6^a	3 602	0.9	.	.	.	.
Oman	.	.	2 302	4.5	.	.	.	6
Pakistan	335	2.8	139 973	3.1	23	.	30	.
Papua New Guinea	.	.	4 400	2.2	10	.	75	.
Philippines	568	-0.6	69 282	2.3	45	37	59	52
Qatar	.	.	558	5.7	.	.	.	.
Samoa	.	5.7	166	0.4	.	.	.	.
Saudi Arabia	.	.	18 836	4.3	.	.	.	.
Singapore	11 876	6.2	3 384	2.1	.	.	.	.
Solomon Islands	.	.	391	3.5	.	.	.	60
Sri Lanka	455	3.0	18 100	1.3	18	12	23	32
Syrian Arab Rep.	.	.	14 574	3.3	.	.	54	.
Thailand	.	.	58 703	1.4	22	15	33	34
Turkmenistan	.	.	4 155	2.4	.	.	.	.
United Arab Emirates	17 862^a	-4.0^a	2 260	5.1	.	.	.	.
Vanuatu	.	.	174	2.5	.	.	.	.
Viet Nam	.	.	75 181	2.1	.	.	.	60
Yemen	.	.	15 678	4.1	.	.	.	30^b

Europe
Albania	.	.	3 401	1.5	.	.	.	.
Armenia	.	.	3 638	1.0	.	.	.	.
Austria	15 301^a	1.7^a	8 106	0.4	.	.	.	.
Azerbaijan	.	.	7 594	1.3	.	.	.	.
Belarus	.	.	10 348	0.4	.	.	.	.
Belgium	14 321^a	1.3^a	10 159	0.2	.	.	.	.
Bosnia and Herzegovina	.	.	3 628	-0.5	.	.	.	.
Bulgaria	1 952	-1.2	8 468	-0.3	.	.	.	.
Croatia	.	.	4 501	0.2	.	.	.	.
Cyprus	.	.	756	1.3	2	.	9	.
Czech Rep.	.	.	10 251	0.0	.	.	.	.
Denmark	18 414^a	2.0^a	5 237	0.1	.	.	.	.
Estonia	.	.	1 471	0.0	.	.	.	.
Finland	15 068^a	0.8^a	5 126	0.4	.	.	.	.
France	15 316^a	1.4^a	58 333	0.5	.	.	.	.
Georgia	367	.	5 442	0.4	.	.	.	.
Germany	15 883^a	2.5^a	81 922	0.3	.	.	.	.
Greece	3 567^a	0.2^a	10 490	0.5	15	.	34	.
Hungary	.	.	10 049	-0.4	.	.	.	.
Iceland	17 237^a	1.2^a	271	1.1	.	.	.	.
Ireland	10 993^a	3.4^a	3 554	0.3	.	.	.	.
Israel	.	.	5 664	2.4	.	.	.	.
Italy	13 262^a	1.3^a	57 226	0.1	.	.	.	.
Kazakstan	858	.	16 820	0.8	.	.	.	.
Kyrgyzstan	.	.	4 469	1.3	.	.	.	.
Latvia	.	.	2 504	-0.1	.	.	.	.
Lithuania	.	.	3 728	0.5	.	.	.	.
Luxembourg	17 834^a	2.0^a	412	0.8	.	.	.	.
Macedonia, FYR of	.	.	2 174	1.2	.	.	.	.
Malta	.	.	369	0.8	.	.	.	5
Moldova, Rep. of	.	.	4 444	0.6	.	.	.	.
Netherlands	14 889^a	1.2^a	15 575	0.6	.	.	.	.
Norway	19 316	2.3^a	4 348	0.4	.	.	.	.
Poland	.	.	38 601	0.5	.	.	.	.
Portugal	4 418^a	1.9^a	9 808	0.0	.	.	.	.
Romania	.	.	22 655	0.1	.	.	.	.
Russian Fed.	1 966^a	-1.8^a	148 126	0.4	.	.	.	.
Slovakia	2 225	.	5 347	0.5	.	.	.	.
Slovenia	.	.	1 924	0.3	.	.	.	.
Spain	7 979^a	1.8^a	39 674	0.3	.	.	.	.
Sweden	16 834^a	0.8^a	8 819	0.4	.	.	.	.
Switzerland	24 981^a	0.7^a	7 224	0.8	.	.	.	.
Tajikistan	.	.	5 935	2.6	.	.	.	.
Turkey	1 607^a	2.0	61 797	2.1	.	.	.	14
Ukraine	.	.	51 608	0.2	.	.	.	.
United Kingdom	11 054^a	1.8^a	58 144	0.2	.	.	.	.
Uzbekistan	.	.	23 209	2.4	.	.	.	.
Yugoslavia	.	.	10 294	0.5	.	.	.	.
^a Refer to 1993, or 1980-93 period. ^b Refer to the former Yemen Arab Republic.

Updated by MB. Approved by PD. Last Updated 1 Nov 2002.