World Development Report 1984

same order is used in all tables. The alphabetical measures are separately shown for China and
list in the key shows the reference number of each India and for other low-income economies. And
economy; italics indicate those economies placed because trade in oil affects the economic characterat
the end of a group due to the unavailability of istics and performance of middle-income econo-
GNP per capita figures. Countries with popula- mies, summary measures are also shown for oil
tions of less than a million are not reported in the importers and for oil exporters. Moreover, the
tables, largely for lack of comprehensive data. The group of middle-income economies is divided into
technical note to Table I shows some basic indica- lower and upper categories to provide more meantors
for 34 small countries that are members of the ingful summary measures.
United Nations, the World Bank, or both. The weights used in computing the summary
Summary measures-totals, median values, or measures are described in the technical notes. The
weighted averages-were calculated for the econ- letter w after a summary measure indicates that it
omy groups only if data were adequate and mean- is a weighted average; the letter m, that it is a
ingful statistics could be obtained. Because China median value; the letter t, that it is a total. The
and India heavily influence the overall summary median is the middle value of a data set arranged
measures for the low-income economies, summary in order of magnitude. Because the coverage of
Groups of economies
The colors on the map show what
group a country has been placed in on ,
the basis of its GNP per capita and, in
some instances, its distinguishing -~ - - ,
economic characteristics. For example,
all low-income economies, those with ..
a GNP per capita of less than $410, are ;.
colored yellow. The groups are the
same as those used in the 28 tables ' ,,,,,,n.that
follow, and they include only the
126 countries with a population of i
more than 1 million. I
214
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2 Middle-income oil importers
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Industrial market economies
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Z Not included in the Indicators
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