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Part VI. Statistical Annex PARTVI STATISTICAL ANNEX GENERAL DISCLAIMER The designations employed and presentation of the data do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. TECHNICAL NOTES The Statistical Annex comprises 16 tables covering such Small Island Developing States:1 American Samoa, broad statistical categories as demography, households, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Bahrain, housing, economic and social indicators. The annex is Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cape Verde, divided into three sections presenting data at the regional, Comoros, Cook Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican country and city levels. Tables A.1 to A.6 present regional- Republic, Fiji, French Polynesia, Grenada, Guam, Guinea- level data grouped by selected criteria of economic and Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kiribati, Maldives, Marshall development achievements, as well as geographic distribu- Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States of), tion. Tables B.1 to B.7 contain country-level data and Tables Montserrat, Nauru, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, C.1 to C.3 are devoted to city-level data. Data have been Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, compiled from various international sources, from national Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent statistical offices and from the United Nations. and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Suriname, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, United States Virgin Islands, EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS Vanuatu. The following symbols have been used in presenting data throughout the Statistical Annex: Sub-Saharan Africa: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African category not applicable .. Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic data not available … Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, magnitude zero – Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea- Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, COUNTRY GROUPINGS AND Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, STATISTICAL AGGREGATES South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Togo, Uganda, United World major groupings Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe. More developed regions: All countries and areas of Europe and Northern America, as well as Australia, Japan and New Countries in the Human Development Index 2 Zealand. (HDI) aggregates High human development (HDI 0.800 and above): Less developed regions: All countries and areas of Africa, Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Latin America, Asia (excluding Japan) and Oceania (exclud- Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and ing Australia and New Zealand). Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Hong Kong SAR of China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Least developed countries: Afghanistan, Angola, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People’s Republic of Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Korea, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Latvia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Lao People’s Democratic Norway, Oman, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Republic, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Russian Federation, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saudi Arabia, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Switzerland, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sudan, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, United Tuvalu, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Vanuatu, Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay. Yemen, Zambia. 222 Statistical annex Medium human development (HDI 0.500–0.799): Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belize, Bhutan, Suriname, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela. Bolivia, Botswana, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Lower-middle income: Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Cameroon, Cape Verde, China, Colombia, Congo, Djibouti, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Georgia, Republic of), Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Lesotho, Republic of), Iraq, Jordan, Kiribati, Lesotho, Maldives, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritania, Moldova, Mongolia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Moldova, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Occupied Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, Nicaragua, Occupied Palestinian, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Palestinian Territory, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Samoa, Sri Philippines, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic, The former Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, South Africa, Sudan, Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Syrian Tonga, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Vanuatu. Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Low income: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Yemen, Zimbabwe. Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Low human development (HDI 0.500 and below): Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kenya, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Kyrgyzstan, Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Liberia, Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Guinea, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia. Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Countries in the income aggregates3 Sub-regional aggregates The World Bank classifies all member economies and all other economies with populations of more than 30,000. In I Africa the 2009 World Development Report, economies are divided Eastern Africa: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, among income groups according to 2007 gross national Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, income (GNI) per capita, calculated using the World Bank Mozambique, Réunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Atlas method. The groups are as follows. Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Middle Africa: Angola, Cameroon, Central African High income: Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe. Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Cayman Islands, Northern Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Channel Islands, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara. Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Faeroe Islands, Finland, France, Southern Africa: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South French Polynesia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guam, Africa, Swaziland. Hong Kong SAR of China, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Western Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte Man, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Macao SAR of China, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands Antilles, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Senegal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Northern Sierra Leone, Togo. Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Korea, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, I Asia Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Eastern Asia: China, Hong Kong SAR of China, Macao SAR Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, of China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Japan, United States of America, United States Virgin Islands. Mongolia, Republic of Korea. South-Central Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Upper-middle income: American Samoa, Argentina, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Belize, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Costa Rica, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Croatia, Cuba, Dominica, Fiji, Gabon, Grenada, Jamaica, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon,
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