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Table 5.1
Low- and middle-income countries and patterns of resource use
Share of population
Share of population
Share of population on
on fragile land,
50%
on fragile land, 30-50%
fragile land, 20-30%
Primary product
Burkina Faso (61.2)
Algeria (30.3)
Ecuador (47.0)
export share
Chad (67.0)
Angola (NA)
Congo, Rep. (NA)
90%
Congo Dem. Rep. (NA)
Benin (33.0)
Liberia (NA)
Laos (53.0)
Botswana (NA)
Zambia (88.0)
Mali (72.8)
Cameroon (32.4)
Niger (66.0)
Comoros (NA)
Papua New Guinea (NA)
Eq. Guinea (NA)
Somalia (NA)
Ethiopia (31.3)
Sudan (NA)
Gambia (64.0)
Yemen A.R. (19.2)
Guyana (NA)
Iran (NA)
Mauritania (57.0)
Nigeria (36.4)
Rwanda (51.2)
Uganda (55.0)
Primary product
Egypt (23.3)
Central Af. Rep. (66.6)
Bolivia (79.1)
export share
Zimbabwe (31.0)
Chad (67.0)
Burundi (36.2)
50-90%
Guatemala (71.9)
Côte d'Ivoire (32.3)
Guinea (40.0)
El Salvador (55.7)
Kenya (46.4)
Ghana (34.3)
Morocco (27.2)
Guinea-Bissau (48.7)
Senegal (40.4)
Honduras (51.0)
Sierra Leone (76.0)
Indonesia (15.7)
Syria (NA)
Madagascar (77.0)
Tanzania (51.1)
Mozambique (37.9)
Myanmar (NA)
Panama (64.9)
Peru (64.7)
Togo (32.3)
Trinidad & Tobago (20.0)
Primary product
Costa Rica (25.5)
China (4.6)
export share
Haiti (66.0)
Dominican Rep. (29.8)
<50%
Lesotho (53.9)
India (36.7)
Nepal (44.0)
Jamaica (33.9)
Pakistan (36.9)
Jordan (15.0)
South Africa (11.5)
Malaysia (15.5)
Tunisia (21.6)
Mexico (10.1)
Sri Lanka (20.0)
Vietnam (57.2)
Notes:
Primary commodity export share is the average export share 1990/99 for low- and middle-income countries.
Share of population on fragile land is from World Bank (2003), Table 4.3.
Figures in parentheses are the percentage of the rural population below the national poverty line, from World
Bank (2002),
World Development Indicators.
