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Annex Tables

Annex Table 6: A Comparative Profile of African Countries (part two)

INDICATORS Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina
Faso
Burundi Cameroon Cape
Verde
Central
Afr Rep
Chad
                     
Agricultural raw materials exports (% of total)                    
1990 .... .... ... ... ... ... 280.28 ... ... ...
1999 ... ... 311.2 ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Exports of goods and services as % of GDP                    
1990 23.3 38.9 14.3 55.4 12.7 7.9 20.2 12.7 14.8 13.5
1999 27.6 ... 16.7 27.5 11.3 8.8 24.4 23.2 16.9 17.0
Major agricultural exports (year) Dates Coffee Cotton Lint Beef Cotton Lint Coffee Cocoa Bean Apples Cotton Lint Cotton Lint
  Pastry Hides Cattle Cottonseed Food Preprd Cattle Tea Coffee Cr Org Mat Coffee Cattle
                     
% of total exports 0.15 0.10 32.71 2.98 38.96 74.65 5.36 0.73 11.21 37.28
  0.05 0.03 3.69 0.32 4.09 13.59 3.60 0.27 9.24 8.46
                     
Major African export destination Morocco ... Morocco ... ... South Africa Gabon Guinea Bissau ... ...
  Tunisia   Niger     Rwanda Equatorial Guinea .    
                     
% 5.09 ... 4.58 ... ... 1.64 4.24 5.75 ... ...
  3.67   1.00     0.77 2.04      
                     
Structure of imports                    
Total imports ($ millions)                    
1990 9843 1578 266 1948 537 235 1564 136 155 361
1999 9169 2120 818 2198 568 118 1352 262 160 318
Food imports (% of total)                    
1990 2101 353 91 167 75 21 212 35 35 27
1999 2056 275 125 293 100 13 115 59 25 27
Agricultural raw materials imports (% of total)                    
1990 485.6 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
1999 294.0 ... 32.2 ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Imports of goods and services as % of GDP                    
1990 25.1 20.9 26.3 50.1 25.6 27.8 17.3 43.7 27.6 29.0
1999 23.3 ... 28.0 33.1 29.4 18.3 24.9 50.3 24.0 30.4
Major agricultural imports (year)                    
  Wheat Wine Mill.Pad.Rice Sugar(Raw) Rice, Broken Malt,Barley Mill.Pad.Rice Maize Flour, Wheat Sugar Ref
  Dry CowMilk Flour, Wheat Sugar Ref Food Preprd Kolanuts Flour, Wheat Malt,Barley Mill.Pad.Rice Cattle Flour, Wheat
% of total imports                    
  6.94 2.48 3.91 1.25 5.62 6.08 1.45 3.26 3.32 3.28
  2.48 1.93 1.88 1.15 1.42 2.35 1.29 2.51 2.89 3.21
Major African import source Côte d'Ivoire ... Côte d'Ivoire ... ... Zambia Senegal South Afr ... ...
  Madagascar   Senegal     Tanzania South Afr Côte d'Ivoire    
% 2.93 ... 4.62 ... ... 14.97 9.75 4.02 ... ...
  0.56   2.08     7.36 5.14 2.13    

INDICATORS Comoros Congo
Dem. Rep.
Congo
Rep.
Cote
d'Ivoire
Djibouti Egypt. Equatorial
Guinea
Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia
                       
Agricultural raw materials exports (% of total)                      
1990 ... ... ... ... ... 258.5 ... ... ... ... ...
1999 ... ... ... ... ... 284.72 ... ... ... ... 1.08
Exports of goods and services as % of GDP                      
1990 14.3 29.5 53.7 31.7 ... 20.0 32.2 ... 7.8 46.0 59.9
1999 26.1 ... 77.9 44.3 ... 16.0 102.3 10.2 13.9 45.1 50.5
Major agricultural exports (year) Vanilla Coffee Sugar(raw) Cocoa Bean Cattle Cotton Lint Cocoa Bean Sesame Coffee Rubber Groundnuts
  Cloves Cr Org Mat Cocoa Beans Coffee Sugar(raw) Mill.Pad.Rice Cocoa Husk Sheep Skin, Sheep Oil of Palm GroundnutOil
                       
% of total exports 33.89 10.22 3.44 35.51 17.60 3.40 1.76 3.57 61.56 0.25 20.15
  14.29 2.15 0.05 6.63 6.00 1.97 0.01 2.97 8.10 0.15 8.03
                       
Major African export destination Kenya ... ... Niger ... Libya ... ... Djibouti ... Guinea
  Tanzania     Burkina Faso   Sudan     Egypt   Ghana
                       
% 0.01 ... ... 1.30 ... 1.48 ... ... 9.83 ... 3.42
  0.01     1.17   1.61     2.12   2.91
                       
Structure of imports                      
Total imports ($ millions)                      
1990 52 897 600 2104 215 9202 52 ... ... 775 182
1999 54 489 820 4290 270 16969 28 507 1317 1335 193
Food imports (% of total)                      
1990 16 220 67 353 50 2501 8 ... ... 85 45
1999 27 132 95 397 89 2819 10 27 151 102 114
Agricultural raw materials imports (% of total)                      
1990 ... ... ... ... ... 645.1 ... ... ... ... ...
1999 ... ... ... ... ... 640.9 ... ... ... ... 3.8
Imports of goods and services as % of GDP                      
1990 37.1 29.2 45.8 27.1 ... 32.7 69.6 ... 12.4 30.9 71.6
1999 40.6 ... 70.5 37.5 ... 24.4 85.9 78.8 29.2 38.3 66.6
Major agricultural imports (year)                      
  Mill.Pad.Rice Flour, Wheat Wheat Mill.Pad.Rice CruOrgMat Wheat ChickenMeat Wheat Wheat ChickenMeat Sugar Ref
  ChickenMeat Mill.Pad.Rice Flour, Wheat Cattle Oil of Palm Maize Flour, Wheat Cereals nes Sugar Ref Food Preprd SoyBean,Oil
% of total imports                      
  15.71 6.26 1.72 2.94 6.54 4.30 7.77 4.31 5.01 0.82 10.86
  5.16 4.59 1.64 1.24 5.88 2.35 4.89 1.08 0.76 0.67 8.34
Major African import source South Afr ... ... Mauritania ... Kenya ... ... Djibouti ... Côte d'Ivoire
  Mauritius     Senegal   Sudan     South Afr   Senegal
% 14.37 ... ... 3.98 ... 2.03 ... ... 1.94 ... 4.82
  0.84     2.68   0.54     0.90   1.74

INDICATORS Ghana Guinea Guinea
-Bissau
Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania
                       
Agricultural raw materials exports (% of total)                      
1990 134.55 ... ... 61.86 ... ... ... ... 8.34 222.58 ...
1999 200.2 8.8 ... 148 ... ... ... ... ... 503.84 ...
Exports of goods and services as % of GDP                      
1990 16.9 30.9 9.9 25.9 16.6 ... ... 16.6 24.8 17.1 45.6
1999 33.5 21.4 25.6 24.4 ... ... ... 24.8 27.1 24.9 38.6
Major agricultural exports (year) Cocoa Bean Coffee Cashew Nut Tea Wool,Greasy Rubber Skin, Sheep Coffee Tobacco Cotton Lint Cattle
  Cocoa Butter Cattle Cotton Lint Coffee FoodWaste Cocoa Bean Onions, Dry Cloves Tea Cattle Sheep
                       
% of total exports 24.08 2.73 47.80 25.73 1.99 8.93 0.23 11.95 58.80 29.54 3.87
  3.02 1.25 3.05 12.00 0.59 0.32 0.08 5.21 7.36 11.35 2.01
                       
Major African export destination Burkina Faso Liberia ... Egypt ... ... Tunisia Mauritius ... Côte d'Ivoire ...
  Niger Morocco   Tanzania     Egypt Algeria   Senegal  
                       
% 1.48 10.69 ... 6.78 ... ... 36.73 3.26 ... 63.35 ...
  1.37 5.42   5.73     4.13 1.69   29.58  
                       
Structure of imports                      
Total imports ($ millions)                      
1990 1205 723 78 2240 700 220 5336 569 578 619 232
1999 3030 1090 69 2914 799 400 6200 550 664 798 240
Food imports (% of total)                      
1990 156 104 19 187 112 47 1000 66 68 87 105
1999 282 113 24 288 139 60 737 64 38 75 173
Agricultural raw materials imports (% of total)                      
1990 12.1 ... ... 63.8 ... ... 106.7 5.7 5.8 6.2 ...
1999 105.2 ... ... 85.5 ... ... 58.5 5.1 6.6 7.5 ...
Imports of goods and services as % of GDP                      
1990 25.9 30.6 37.0 31.2 121.1 ... ... 27.3 34.9 33.7 60.7
1999 50.5 23.5 44.0 31.1 ... ... ... 32.7 42.5 36.0 49.2
Major agricultural imports (year)                      
  Cattle Mill.Pad.Rice Mill.Pad.Rice Oil of Palm Flour,Maize Wheat Flour, Wheat Mill.Pad.Rice Maize Mill.Pad.Rice Wheat
  Wheat Sugar Ref Beer,Barley Maize Maize Maize Oil of Maize SoyBean,Oil Flour, Wheat Sugar Ref Sugar(Raw)
% of total imports                      
  2.21 3.76 19.20 3.82 2.75 1.78 2.56 3.11 4.58 1.97 24.67
  1.96 2.88 2.92 3.37 2.07 1.48 1.47 1.91 1.45 1.71 11.81
Major African import source South Afr South Afr ... South Afr ... ... Tunisia South Afr South Afr Côte d'Ivoire ...
  Ghana Côte d'Ivoire   Zimbabawe     Morocco Mauritius Zimbabwe Senegal  
% 4.99 1.69 ... 48.89 ... ... 3.96 9.38 39.95 23.23 ...
  0.56 1.49   11.94     1.59 2.25 33.49 2.08  

INDICATORS Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome
&Principe
Senegal Seychelles Sierra
Leone
                       
Agricultural raw materials exports (% of total)                      
1990 11.94 127.95 ... ... ... 136.7 ... ... 22.83 ... ...
1999 ... 220.5 ... ... 2.76 ... ... ... 30.3 ... ...
Exports of goods and services as % of GDP                      
1990 65.2 26.5 8.2 52.1 15.0 43.4 5.6 14.5 25.4 62.5 24.0
1999 63.8 30.1 11.7 52.7 16.0 36.5 5.6 35.0 32.7 70.9 13.9
Major agricultural exports (year) Sugar(raw) Oranges Cotton Lint Beef Cigarettes Cocoa Bean Coffee Cocoa Bean GroundnutOil Cinnamon ...
  Live Animals Tang.Mand. Cáshew Nut Cattle Cattle Rubber Tea Coffee Cotton Lint Beverages ...
                       
% of total exports 20.46 2.08 5.85 4.94 8.58 1.78 42.59 68.80 3.43 0.45 ...
  0.47 2.01 5.77 3.11 6.15 0.74 23.03 1.00 1.62 0.41 ...
                       
Major African export destination Madagascar Libya South Africa ... Nigeria Chad ... ... Mauritania ... ...
  Malawi Tunisia Malawi     Benin     Côte d'Ivoire    
                       
% 0.99 3.10 69.45 ... 31.32 0.23 ... ... 5.52 ... ...
  0.35 1.41 24.49     0.15     3.40    
                       
Structure of imports                      
Total imports ($ millions)                      
1990 1609 6926 878 1164 390 5715 285 27 1296 187 155
1999 2185 10809 1161 1504 397 14142 229 20 1460 434 140
Food imports (% of total)                      
1990 162 514 191 107 97 478 42 6 377 24 96
1999 246 1115 162 102 111 1319 66 5 444 42 122
Agricultural raw materials imports (% of total)                      
1990 48.5 408.0 ... ... ... 56.3 ... ... 24.4 ... ...
1999 42.8 636.6 ... ... 15.8 103.7 ... ... 30.6 ... ...
Imports of goods and services as % of GDP                      
1990 72.5 32.4 36.1 67.7 22.0 28.8 14.1 72.5 30.3 66.7 25.1
1999 68.9 34.2 37.6 63.5 22.4 42.3 21.1 84.3 39.1 88.5 20.2
Major agricultural imports (year)                      
  DryCow Milk Wheat Wheat Fruit Fresh Mill.Pad.Rice Mill.Pad.Rice Maize Flour, Wheat Mill.Pad.Rice Mill.Pad.Rice Mill.Pad.Rice
  Mill.Pad.Rice Sugar(Raw) Sugar Ref Maize Sugar Ref Sugar Ref Oil of Palm Mill.Pad.Rice Oil,SoyaBean Oil of Olive Cattle
% of total imports                      
  1.21 3.74 3.16 1.61 6.06 2.16 6.40 6.02 9.78 1.23 52.50
  1.11 1.45 2.81 1.31 4.13 1.89 4.40 4.93 3.75 0.94 8.18
Major African import source South Afr Côte d'Ivoire South Afr ... Côte d'Ivoire Mauritania ... ... Côte d'Ivoire ... ...
  Burkina Faso Gabon Zimbabwe   Nigeria South Afdr     Cameroon    
% 22.36 1.59 32.33 ... 16.70 5.71 ... ... 5.46 ... ...
  2.30 1.31 2.38   8.16 1.05     1.06    

INDICATORS Somalia South
Africa
Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Western Sahara Zambia Zimbabwe
                       
Agricultural raw materials exports (% of total)                      
1990 ... 941.96 142.12 ... ... 56.28 35.26 ... ... ... 120.82
1999 ... 801.21 203.85 ... 74.75 74.8 59.1 93.06 ... ... 211
Exports of goods and services as % of GDP                      
1990 9.8 24.4 ... 76.8 12.6 33.5 43.6 7.2 ... 35.9 22.9
1999 ... 25.4 ... 106.7 13.3 30.3 41.9 11.3 ... 22.3 45.2
Major agricultural exports (year) Sheep Cotton Lint Sesame Seed Sugar(raw) Cashew Nut Cotton Lint Oil of Olive Coffee ... Sugar(raw) Tobacco
  Goats Coffee Sheep Food Preprd Coffee Coffee Dates Tea ... Cotton Lint Cotton Lint
                       
% of total exports 23.33 16.10 13.45 19.69 15.80 23.35 4.48 53.72 ... 2.38 21.55
  15.33 10.30 12.70 9.49 15.36 7.40 0.91 5.10 ... 1.61 5.47
                       
Major African export destination ... Mozambique Egypt ... Kenya South Afr Libya Kenya ... ... South Afr
    Zimbabwe Kenya   Zimbabwe Benin Algeria Rwanda     Mozambique
                       
% ... 5.29 4.27 ... 4.99 12.99 16.52 6.64 ... ... 17.40
    4.65 1.16   2.37 4.25 1.05 4.76     4.26
                       
Structure of imports                      
Total imports ($ millions)                      
1990 394 17076 825 663 1444 581 5502 618 ... 1066 1848
1999 180 24080 1415 1019 1645 588 8498 1346 ... 650 2178
Food imports (% of total)                      
1990 77 591 198 79 64 79 480 20 ... 49 40
1999 87 831 192 154 237 72 529 210 ... 73 115
Agricultural raw materials imports (% of total)                      
1990 ... 368.0 6.2 ... ... 5.8 221.7 ... ... ... 55.4
1999 ... 267.0 14.1 ... 35.6 6.2 254.3 26.8 ... ... 56.6
Imports of goods and services as % of GDP                      
1990 37.7 18.6 ... 76.0 37.5 45.3 50.6 19.4 ... 36.6 22.8
1999 ... 22.9 ... 98.5 28.0 40.1 44.1 22.9 ... 40.9 45.7
Major agricultural imports (year)                      
  Sugar Ref Mill.Pad.Rice Wheat Cattle Oil of Palm Rice, Broken Wheat Oil,SoyaBean ... Maize Maize
  Mill.Pad.Rice Oil,Sunflower Flour, Wheat Food Waste Maize Wheat Oil,SoyBean Oil of Palm ... Food Preprd Wheat
% of total imports                      
  23.33 0.53 4.18 1.54 4.33 3.39 2.24 2.39 ... 6.38 0.99
  15.28 0.32 2.50 1.22 1.88 2.71 0.92 1.43 ... 1.59 0.79
Major African import source ... Zimbabwe Kenya ... South Afr Mauritania Egypt Kenya ... ... South Afr
    Zambia Egypt   Kenya Benin Côte d'Ivoire South Afr     Mozambique
% ... 6.62 7.96 ... 16.79 18.80 2.45 21.26 ... ... 68.19
    1.35 4.03   6.31 18.66 14.75 6.21     4.89

Sources: World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001 and Little Data Book 2001; Encyclopaedia Britanica, 2001 Book of the Year; UNCTAD LDC database; FAO