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Definition of Geographic Regions Appendix: and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Virgin Islands Definition of Geographic Regions South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, The list below indicates the countries included in the geo- Uruguay, Venezuela graphic regions used in the tables and text in this report. Inclusion of supply, use, and trade data for a particular Latin America: South America, Central America and country and commodity is dependent on availability of Caribbean those data in the USDA database. USDA supply and use data are not available for all commodities, or for all Africa and Middle East countries listed below. Africa and Middle East: North Africa and Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa Within the tables included in the report, data are frequently aggregated into regions defined, for example, as “Other North Africa and Middle East: Algeria, Bahrain, Cyprus, Asia” or “Other North Africa and Middle East.” These Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, aggregates include data for all countries in that region Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, (subject to data availability), except those broken out Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen separately in that table. For example, “Other Asia” will include all countries listed below for the Asia region, less Sub-Saharan Africa: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cape any Asia region countries shown individually in the table. Verde, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Aggregates listed simply as “Other” include available data Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, for all countries in the world not already accounted for Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, by the individual countries and regions shown in the table. Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Europe Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, European Union-15 (EU-15): Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, West Africa 10: Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Central United Kingdom African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo Former Soviet Union (FSU): Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Asia and Oceania Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Asia and Oceania: Asia, Oceania and the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) Asia: China, East Asia, Mongolia, South Asia, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): Albania, Bulgaria, Southeast Asia Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Former Yugoslavia (incl. Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, East Asia: Hong Kong, Japan, Macao, North Korea, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia) South Korea, Taiwan Western Hemisphere Southeast Asia: Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Central America and Caribbean: Antigua & Barbuda, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, South Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka Martinique, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent Oceania: Australia, American Samoa, Fiji, Kiribati, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Western Samoa 196 ❖ Economic Research Service / USDA International Agricultural Baseline Projections to 2005 / AER-750.
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