World Development Report 1984

Definitions and data notes
The principal country groups used in this Report * Sub-Saharan Africa comprises all thirty-nine
are defined as follows: developing African countries south of the Sahara,
* Developing countries are divided into: low- excluding South Africa, as given in Accelerated Deincome
economies, with 1982 gross national product velopment in Sub-Saharan Africa, World Bank, 1981.
(GNP) per person of less than $410; and middle- * Middle East and North Africa includes Afghaniincome
economies, with 1982 GNP per person of stan, Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan,
$410 or more. Middle-income countries are also Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Saudi
divided into oil exporters and oil importers, identified Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Yemen Arab
below. Republic, Yemen (PDR), and the United Arab
* Middle-income oil exporters comprise Algeria, Emirates.
Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, * East Asia comprises all low- and middle-
Gabon, Indonesia, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, income countries of East and Southeast Asia and
Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Syria, Trinidad the Pacific, east of, and including, Burma, China,
and Tobago, Tunisia, and Venezuela. and Mongolia.
* Middle-income oil importers comprise all other * South Asia includes Bangladesh, Bhutan,
middle-income developing countries not classified India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
as oil exporters. A subset, major exporters of manu- 0 Latin America and Caribbean comprises all
factures, comprises Argentina, Brazil, Greece, American and Caribbean countries south of the
Hong Kong, Israel, Republic of Korea, Philippines, United States.
Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, and Billion is 1,000 million.
Yugoslavia. Tons are metric tons (t), equal to 1,000 kilograms
* High-income oil exporters (not included in de- (kg) or 2,204.6 pounds.
veloping countries) comprise Bahrain, Brunei Grow7th rates are in real terms unless otherwise
Darussalam, Kuwait, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi stated.
Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Dollars are US dollars unless otherwise specified.
* Industrial market economies are the members of
the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and All tables and figures are based on World Bank
Development (OECD, identified in the glossary) data unless otherwise specified.
apart from Greece, Portugal, and Turkey, which Data from secondary sources are not always
are included among the middle-income develop- available through 1983. The numbers in this World
ing economies. This group is commonly referred to Development Report shown for historical data may
in the text as industrial economies or industrial differ from those shown in previous Reports
countries. because of continuous updating as better data
* East European nonnmarket economies include the become available, and because of recompilation of
following countries: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslo- certain data for Part I for a ninety-country sample.
vakia, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, The recompilation was necessary to permit greater
Poland, Romania, and USSR. This group is some- flexibility in regrouping countries for the purpose
times referred to as nonmarket economies. of making projections.
Growth rates for spans of years in tables cover
The World Development Indicators uses the the period from the beginning of the base year to
same groups but includes only countries of 1 mil- the end of the last year given.
lion or more.
In Part II of this Report, regional groupings of
countries are defined as follows:
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