Comparison of Economies, 2003

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Do you sometimes wonder how your country's living standards compare to those of other countries in the world? In the table below I tried to arrange as many countries as I could, showing their economic indices and population data. The numbers were taken from the CIA 2003 factbook. (1) I included countries according to the following criteria. The country must:

The first clause excludes dependent territories, such as some islands in the Atlantic, where a few retired millionaires create a biased view of the area's GDP per capita. The second clause(2) excludes the least populated countries.

DISCLAIMER: Please do not blame me for the accuracy(3) of the data. All I did was that I took some numbers from the above source and arranged them in a table!(4)

If you are interested in past years, (5) here are the tables for 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999 and 1998.

The table below is sorted first by GDP per capita (descending), and then by GDP growth rate (also descending).

Sorting countries according to GDP per capita does not provide the best indication of each nation's living standards. The latter is a multi-dimensional concept that cannot be captured by a single number. Other important factors regarding living standards are:

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GDP
Growth
Rate

GDP
(billion $)

Distr. of
Income
(Gini index)

Inflation

Population

Popul.
Growth

Infant
Mortality
(per 1000
live births)

Life
Expectancy
(years)

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1 United States $37,600 2.45% $10,400.00 40.8 1.6% 290,342,554 0.92% 6.75 77.14 1 1 1 1
2 Norway $31,800 1.6% $143.00 25.8 1.3% 4,546,123 0.46% 3.87 79.09 3 3 4 4
3 Switzerland $31,700 0% $231.00 33.1 0.5% 7,318,638 0.21% 4.36 79.99 2 2 3 2
4 Ireland $30,500 5.2% $118.50 35.9 4.6% 3,924,140 1.03% 5.34 77.35 6 19 19 19
5 Canada $29,400 3.4% $923.00 31.5 2.2% 32,207,113 0.94% 4.88 79.83 5 9 9 11
6 Denmark $29,000 1.8% $155.50 24.7 2.3% 5,384,384 0.28% 4.9 77.1 4 5 6 6
7 Belgium $29,000 0.6% $297.60 28.7 1.7% 10,289,088 0.14% 4.57 78.29 10 6 5 5
8 Japan $28,000 -0.3% $3,550.00 24.9 -0.9% 127,214,499 0.11% 3.3 80.93 7 8 8 7
9 Austria $27,700 0.6% $226.00 31 1.8% 8,188,207 0.22% 4.33 78.17 8 7 7 8
10 Australia $27,000 3.6% $528.00 35.2 2.8% 19,731,984 0.93% 4.83 80.13 18 13 14 14
11 Netherlands $26,900 0.3% $434.00 32.6 3.4% 16,150,511 0.5% 4.26 78.74 11 10 11 12
12 Germany $26,600 0.4% $2,184.00 30 1.3% 82,398,326 0.04% 4.23 78.42 9 12 12 13
13 Finland $26,200 1.1% $136.20 25.6 1.9% 5,190,785 0.14% 3.73 77.92 12 14 17 17
14 France $25,700 1% $1,540.00 32.7 1.8% 60,180,529 0.42% 4.37 79.28 13 11 10 10
15 Sweden $25,400 1.8% $227.40 25 2.2% 8,878,085 0.01% 3.42 79.97 15 17 18 18
16 United Kingdom $25,300 1.6% $1,520.00 36.8 2.1% 60,094,648 0.3% 5.28 78.16 14 16 15 15
17 Italy $25,000 0.4% $1,438.00 27.3 2.4% 57,998,353 0.11% 6.19 79.4 17 18 16 16
18 Singapore $24,000 2.2% $105.00   -0.4% 4,608,595 3.42% 3.57 80.42 16 4 2 3
19 U.A.E.(6) $22,000 2.4% $53.00   2.8% 2,484,818 1.57% 15.58 74.75 20 15 21 21
20 Qatar $21,500 3.4% $17.20   1.9% 817,052 2.87% 20.03 73.14 19 20 24 22
21 Spain $20,700 2% $828.00 32.5 3% 40,217,413 0.16% 4.54 79.23 23 22 23 25
22 New Zealand $20,200 4.4% $78.80   2.7% 3,951,307 1.09% 6.07 78.32 22 23 22 23
23 Korea, South $19,400 6.2% $931.00 31.6 2.8% 48,289,037 0.66% 7.31 75.36 24 26 30 30
24 Greece $19,000 3.5% $201.10 32.7 3.6% 10,665,989 0.19% 6.12 78.89 25 25 27 27
25 Israel $19,000 -1.1% $122.00 35.5 5.7% 6,116,533 1.39% 7.37 79.02 21 21 20 20
26 Taiwan $18,000 3.5% $406.00 32.6 -0.2% 22,603,001 0.65% 6.65 76.87 27 24 25 24
27 Slovenia $18,000 3% $36.00 28.4 7.4% 1,935,677 0.14% 4.42 75.51 28 33 33 34
28 Portugal $18,000 0.8% $182.00 35.6 3.7% 10,102,022 0.17% 5.73 76.35 26 28 26 26
29 Czech Republic $15,300 1.5% $155.90 25.4 0.6% 10,249,216 -0.08% 5.37 75.18 30 31 32 32
30 Kuwait $15,000 -2% $34.20   2% 2,183,161 3.34% 10.57 76.65 29 29 13 9
31 Bahrain $14,000 3.8% $9.80   0.5% 667,238 1.61% 18.59 73.72 32 27 28 28
32 Cyprus(7) $13,812
=$15,000
& $6,000		 1.7% &
2.6%		 $9.40 &
$0.74		   2.8% &
24.5%		 771,657 0.56% 7.54 77.27 31 30 29 29
33 Hungary $13,300 3.2% $134.70 24.4 5.3% 10,045,407 -0.29% 8.58 72.17 33 34 46 45
34 Slovakia $12,200 4% $66.00 26.3 3.3% 5,430,033 0.14% 8.55 74.43 35 38 41 41
35 Mauritius $11,000 3.8% $13.20 0.37 6.4% 1,210,447 0.84% 16.11 71.8 36 36 35 36
36 Estonia $10,900 4.4% $15.20 37 3.7% 1,408,556 -0.49% 12.03 70.31 38 40 58 57
37 Saudi Arabia $10,500 0.6% $242.00   1% 24,293,844 3.27% 47.94 68.73 37 35 38 38
38 Argentina $10,200 -14.7% $391.00   41% 38,740,807 1.05% 16.16 75.48 34 32 36 33
39 South Africa $10,000 3% $432.00 59.3 9.9% 42,768,678 0.01% 60.84 46.56 40 46 51 48
40 Chile $10,000 1.8% $151.00 56.7 2.5% 15,665,216 1.05% 8.88 76.35 39 39 31 31
41 Botswana $9,500 6% $15.10   8.1% 1,573,267 -0.55% 67.34 32.26 52 57 55  
42 Trinidad and Tobago $9,500 2.8% $11.10   4.3% 1,104,209 -0.68% 24.97 69.59 42 41 39 43
43 Poland $9,500 1.3% $368.10 31.6 1.9% 38,622,660 0% 8.95 73.91 45 45 49 47
44 Russia $9,300 4.2% $1,350.00 39.9 15% 144,526,278 -0.3% 19.51 67.66 47 47 72 73
45 Malaysia $9,300 4.2% $210.00 49.2 1.9% 23,092,940 1.86% 19 71.67 43 37 34 35
46 Mexico $9,000 1% $900.00 53.1 6.4% 104,907,991 1.43% 23.68 72.3 44 43 40 42
47 Croatia $8,800 5.2% $38.90 29 2.2% 4,422,248 0.31% 6.92 74.37 48 67 63 60
48 Costa Rica $8,500 2.4% $32.30 45.9 9.1% 3,896,092 1.56% 10.56 76.43 46 56 50 49
49 Lithuania $8,400 6.7% $29.20 34 0.8% 3,592,561 -0.23% 14.17 69.6 53 50 65 63
50 Latvia $8,300 4.5% $20.00 32 2% 2,348,784 -0.73% 14.59 69.31 51 52 74 70
51 Oman $8,300 2.2% $22.40   -0.5% 2,807,125 3.38% 21.01 72.58 49 48 43 44
52 Belarus $8,200 4.2% $85.00 21.7 42.8% 10,322,151 -0.12% 13.87 68.43 50 49 61 58
53 World $7,900 2.7% $49,000.00     6,302,309,691 1.17% 51.38 63.95 55 53 52 53
54 Uruguay $7,800 -10.5% $26.50 42.3 14.1% 3,413,329 0.79% 13.8 75.87 41 42 42 39
55 Libya $7,600 1.2% $41.00   1% 5,499,074 2.39% 26.8 76.07 54 44 45 51
56 Brazil $7,600 1% $1,340.00 60.7 8.3% 182,032,604 1.15% 31.74 71.13 56 59 57 55
57 Romania $7,400 4.5% $166.00 31.1 22.5% 22,271,839 -0.21% 18.4 70.62 57 66 77 72
58 Turkey $7,000 7.8% $468.00 41.5 45.2% 68,109,469 1.16% 44.2 71.8 58 54 56 52
59 Iran $7,000 6.5% $456.00   15.3% 68,278,826 1.08% 44.17 69.35 61 60 62 62
60 Thailand $6,900 5.2% $429.00 41.4 0.6% 64,265,276 0.95% 21.83 71.24 60 55 54 56
61 Namibia $6,900 3.2% $12.60   8% 1,927,447 1.49% 68.44 42.77 76 78 69 71
62 Bulgaria $6,600 4.8% $50.60 26.4 5.9% 7,537,929 -1.09% 13.7 71.8 63 62 70 69
63 Colombia $6,500 2% $268.00 57.1 6.2% 41,662,073 1.56% 22.47 71.14 62 64 55 54
64 Tunisia $6,500 1.9% $63.00 41.7 2.5% 9,924,742 1.09% 26.91 74.4 59 58 59 59
65 Kazakhstan $6,300 9.5% $105.00 35.4 6% 16,763,795 0.17% 58.73 63.48 65 70 85  
66 Dominican Republic $6,100 4.2% $53.00 47.4 5.3% 8,715,602 1.36% 34.19 67.96 67 68 60 61
67 Panama $6,000 0.8% $17.30 48.5 1.1% 2,960,784 1.36% 21.44 72.32 66 65 47 46
68 Gabon $5,700 2.9% $7.00   2.3% 1,321,560 2.54% 55.05 57.12 69 61 53  
69 Turkmenistan $5,500 6% $26.00 40.8 5% 4,775,544 1.82% 73.17 61.19 73 77 111  
70 Fiji $5,500 4.1% $4.70   2% 868,531 1.41% 13.35 68.88 70 51 48 50
71 Venezuela $5,500 -8.9% $132.80 49.5 31.2% 24,654,694 1.48% 23.79 73.81 64 63 44 40
72 Lebanon $5,400 1.5% $19.30   3.5% 3,727,703 1.34% 26.43 72.07 71 71 67 66
73 Algeria $5,300 3% $167.00 35.3 3% 32,818,500 1.65% 37.74 70.54 68 69 66 65
74 F.Y.R.O.M.(8) $5,000 0.3% $10.00   1.1% 2,063,122 0.4% 12.14 74.49 77 76 79 88
75 Peru $4,800 4.8% $132.00 46.2 0.2% 28,409,897 1.61% 36.97 70.88 72 75 68 67
76 El Salvador $4,700 1.9% $30.00 52.2 3.8% 6,470,379 1.81% 26.75 70.62 74 79 86  
77 Albania $4,500 5% $14.00   6% 3,582,205 1.03% 37.28 72.37 83 92 119 87
78 Ukraine $4,500 4.1% $218.00 29 -1.2% 48,055,439 -0.69% 20.87 66.5 79 81 103 82
79 China $4,400 8% $5,700.00 40 -0.8% 1,286,975,468 0.6% 25.26 72.22 78 85 78 76
80 Swaziland $4,400 1.6% $4.80   11.8% 1,161,219 0.83% 67.44 39.47 81 80 73 68
81 Jordan $4,300 3.5% $22.80 36.4 3.3% 5,460,265 2.78% 18.86 77.88 80 87 83 77
82 Philippines $4,200 4.6% $356.00 46.2 3.1% 84,619,974 1.92% 24.98 69.29 82 82 81 78
83 Paraguay $4,200 -2.5% $25.00 57.7 10.5% 6,036,900 2.54% 27.71 74.4 75 73 80 75
84 Guyana $4,000 2.1% $2.70   4.7% 702,100 0.44% 37.55 63.09 88 72 95  
85 Morocco $3,900 3.2% $115.00 39.5 3.6% 31,689,265 1.64% 44.87 70.04 84 88 82  
86 Egypt $3,900 1.7% $268.00 28.9 4.3% 74,718,797 1.88% 35.26 70.41 85 86 87  
87 Jamaica $3,900 0.4% $10.00 37.9 7% 2,695,867 0.61% 13.26 75.85 87 84 84  
88 Armenia $3,800 12.7% $12.60 44.4 1.1% 3,326,448 -0.07% 40.86 66.68 89 93 89 79
89 Sri Lanka $3,700 3.2% $73.70 34.4 9.6% 19,742,439 0.83% 15.22 72.62 90 89 93  
90 Guatemala $3,700 2% $48.00 55.8 8.1% 13,909,384 2.66% 37.92 65.23 86 83 76 74
91 Azerbaijan $3,500 6.1% $27.00 36 2.6% 7,830,764 0.44% 82.41 63.16 92 91 114 86
92 Syria $3,500 3.5% $59.40   0.9% 17,585,540 2.45% 31.67 69.39 91 90 96  
93 Georgia $3,100 4% $15.00 37.1 5.2% 4,934,413 -0.52% 51.24 64.76 93 74 100 81
94 Indonesia $3,100 3.5% $663.00 31.7 11.9% 234,893,453 1.52% 38.09 68.94 95 94 90  
95 Ecuador $3,100 3.3% $41.70 43.7 12.5% 13,710,234 1.91% 31.97 71.89 94 95 71 64
96 Kyrgyzstan $2,800 -0.5% $13.50 34.6 2.1% 4,892,808 1.46% 75.34 63.66 96 96 101  
97 Equatorial Guinea $2,700 20% $1.27   6% 510,473 2.44% 89.02 54.75        
98 Lesotho $2,700 4% $5.60 56 10% 1,861,959 0.19% 86.21 36.94 104 104 102  
99 Honduras $2,600 2% $17.60 56.3 7.7% 6,669,789 2.32% 29.96 66.65 97 97 105  
100 India $2,540 4.3% $2,660.00 37.8 5.4% 1,049,700,118 1.47% 59.59 63.62 100 107 112 85
101 Moldova $2,500 4% $11.00 40.6 5.5% 4,439,502 0.13% 41.58 64.88 99 102 104 83
102 Uzbekistan $2,500 3% $65.00 44.7 26% 25,981,647 1.63% 71.51 64 101 105 97  
103 Nicaragua $2,500 2.4% $12.80 60.3 3.7% 5,128,517 2.03% 31.39 69.68 102 98 92  
104 Bolivia $2,500 1.9% $21.00 58.9 2% 8,586,443 1.63% 56.05 64.78 98 99 88  
105 Iraq(9) $2,400 -3% $58.00   70% 24,683,313 2.78% 55.16 67.81 103 100 91  
106 Zimbabwe $2,400 -12.1% $27.00 50.1 134.5% 12,576,742 0.83% 66.47 39.01 105 103 98  
107 Serbia and Montenegro(10) $2,370 3% $25.30   19% 10,655,774 0.07% 16.9 73.97 108 106 113 80
108 Cuba $2,300 0% $25.90   7.1% 11,263,429 0.34% 7.15 76.8 107 115 116  
109 Papua New Guinea $2,300 -3.3% $1.20 50.9 9.8% 5,295,816 2.34% 54.84 64.19 106 101 94  
110 Vietnam $2,250 6% $183.00 36.1 3.9% 81,624,716 1.29% 30.83 70.05 109 110 110  
111 Ghana $2,100 5.8% $42.50 40.7 14.5% 20,467,747 1.45% 53.02 56.53 111 111 109  
112 Pakistan $2,100 4.5% $311.00 41 3.9% 150,694,740 2.01% 76.53 62.2 110 109 107  
113 Guinea $2,000 3.7% $15.90 40.3 6% 9,030,220 2.37% 93.3 49.54 112 126 130  
114 Mauritania $1,900 4.2% $5.30 37.3 3% 2,912,584 2.91% 73.8 51.93 114 108 108  
115 Bosnia and Herzegovina $1,900 2.3% $7.30   3.5% 3,989,018 0.48% 22.7 72.29 113 114 115 84
116 Mongolia $1,840 3.7% $5.00 33.2 3% 2,712,315 1.42% 57.16 63.81 116 113 99  
117 Gambia, The $1,800 3% $2.60   5.5% 1,501,050 3.03% 74.93 54.38 115 132 135  
118 Laos $1,700 5.5% $9.90 37 10% 5,921,545 2.45% 88.94 54.3 120 117 127  
119 Cameroon $1,700 5% $27.00 47.7 4.5% 15,746,179 2.02% 70.12 48.05 118 116 106  
120 Bangladesh $1,700 4.4% $239.00 33.6 3.1% 138,448,210 2.06% 66.08 61.33 117 121 124  
121 Haiti $1,700 -1.5% $12.00   11.9% 7,527,817 1.67% 76.01 51.61 119 112 125  
122 Solomon Islands $1,700 -10% $0.80   1.8% 509,190 2.83% 22.88 72.1        
123 Burma $1,660 3.3% $70.00   53.7% 42,510,537 0.52% 70.35 55.79 124 122 129  
124 Angola $1,600 9% $16.90   106% 10,766,471 1.97% 193.82 36.96 128 137 136  
125 Cambodia $1,500 5.2% $19.70 40.4 3.3% 13,124,764 1.8% 75.94 57.92 123 127 156  
126 Senegal $1,500 5% $16.20 41.3 3% 10,580,307 2.56% 57.57 56.37 121 119 120  
127 Togo $1,500 3% $8.00   4% 5,429,299 2.37% 68.73 53.43 125 123 118  
128 Cote d'Ivoire(11) $1,500 -1.7% $24.50 36.7 3.2% 16,962,491 2.15% 98.33 42.65 122 120 121  
129 Sudan $1,420 5.1% $52.90   9.2% 38,114,160 2.71% 65.59 57.73 127 135 145  
130 Nepal $1,400 -0.6% $36.00 36.7 2.8% 26,469,569 2.26% 70.57 59 126 125 132  
131 Bhutan $1,300 7.7% $2.70   3% 2,139,549 2.14% 104.68 53.58 130 130 133  
132 Central African Rep. $1,300 1% $4.70 61.3 3.6% 3,683,538 1.62% 93.3 41.71 129 118 117  
133 Uganda $1,260 5.5% $31.00 37.4 0.1% 25,632,794 2.96% 87.9 44.88 131 131 134  
134 Tajikistan $1,250 5% $8.00 34.7 12% 6,863,752 2.13% 113.43 64.37 132 128 137  
135 Rwanda $1,200 4% $9.00 28.9 5.5% 7,810,056 1.84% 102.61 39.33 137 143 155  
136 Chad $1,100 11.3% $10.00   6% 9,253,493 3.07% 95.74 48.51 136 138 141  
137 Liberia $1,100 -5% $3.50   15% 3,317,176 1.67% 132.18 48.15 133 129 142  
138 Burkina Faso $1,080 4.5% $13.60 48.2 3.5% 13,228,460 2.6% 99.78 44.46 135 136 131  
139 Benin $1,070 5.4% $7.30   3.3% 7,041,490 2.95% 86.76 51.08 134 134 128  
140 Kenya $1,020 0.8% $32.00 44.9 1.9% 31,639,091 1.27% 63.36 45.22 138 124 122  
141 Mozambique $1,000 8% $19.20 39.6 15.2% 17,479,266 0.82% 199 31.3 140 139 138  
142 Korea, North $1,000 1% $22.00     22,466,481 1.07% 25.66 70.79 139 141 140  
143 Congo, Republic $900 0% $2.50   4% 2,954,258 1.53% 95.34 50.02 142 133 123  
144 Zambia $890 4.2% $8.90 52.6 21% 10,307,333 1.52% 99.29 35.25 144 145 147  
145 Nigeria $875 3% $113.50 50.6 14.2% 133,881,703 2.53% 71.35 51.01 145 142 143  
146 Mali $860 4.5% $9.80 50.5 4.5% 11,626,219 2.82% 119.2 45.43 146 147 148  
147 Yemen $840 4% $15.70 33.4 12.2% 19,349,881 3.42% 65.02 60.97 147 148 151  
148 Niger $830 3% $8.80 50.5 3% 11,058,590 2.71% 123.64 42.21 140 140 139  
149 Guinea-Bissau $800   $1.10     1,360,827   110.29 46.97 141 146 146  
150 Madagascar $760 -11.9% $12.60 38.1 7.4% 16,979,744 3.03% 80.21 56.14 143 150 150  
151 Ethiopia $750 5.5% $50.60 40 4% 66,557,553 1.96% 103.22 41.24 152 156 159  
152 Eritrea $740 2% $3.30   15% 4,362,254 1.28% 76.32 53.18 150 154 152  
153 Comoros $720 2% $0.44   3.5% 632,948 2.96% 79.51 61.18 151 152 154  
154 Afghanistan $700   $19.00     28,717,213 3.38% 142.48 46.97 149 149 149  
155 Malawi $670 1.2% $7.20   27.4% 11,651,239 2.21% 105.15 37.98 153 144 144  
156 Tanzania $630 5.2% $22.50 38.2 4.8% 35,922,454 1.72% 103.68 44.56 154 153 160  
157 Congo, Dem. Rep. $610 3.5% $34.00   16% 56,625,039 2.9% 96.56 48.93 156 157 157  
158 Burundi $600 2.1% $3.80 42.5 12% 6,096,156 2.18% 71.54 43.2 155 151 153  
159 Sierra Leone $580 5% $2.80 62.9 1% 5,732,681 2.94% 146.86 42.84 159 158 161  
160 Somalia $550 3% $4.10     8,025,190 3.43% 120.34 47.34 157 155 158  
161 East Timor $500 18% $0.44 38   997,853 2.13% 50.47 65.2 158      

Footnotes: (Clicking on the footnote number brings to the corresponding place in the text).

(1) Notice that most of the financial data are compiled in 2003, but refer to the fiscal year 2002. Most population data are estimates for July 2003.

(2) The justification for this second clause is -- besides pruning the table to manageable length -- that communities consisting of a few tens of thousands of people should not be put on a par with nations of multi-million populations. For example, if all independent nations are entered, Luxembourg should be placed at the top with $44,000 GDP per capita, followed by the USA, followed by Bermuda with $35,200. However, I feel it is not right for nations like Bermuda to occupy one row in this table, just like the USA and China. Also, the GDP per capita of nations of a few tens of thousands of people may vary widely from year to year.

(3) The construction of this table was fully automated: no numbers were typed in by hand. However, there is still a non-zero possibility for error. Please report errors (incompatibilities with the CIA data) to the email address given at the end of this page.

(4) People have complained that I do not include certain financial indices that seem important to them. This is a consequence both of my limited time, and also of the limited horizontal space on computer screens. Others complained (to me!) that the data do not reflect the reality in their country. Although this complaint should be directed to the CIA publications, it is unreasonable, nevertheless: numbers do reflect some part of the truth, if compiled with accuracy. In such cases it is probably the truth that hurts, not the numbers.

(5) But note that it is wrong to chain financial indices for any given country across years. The reason is that the methods of calculation may vary from year to year. (For a full explanation, go to the source data, and locate the entry "GDP methodology".) For this reason I only compare relative positions of countries within my tables across years (always acc. to GDP per capita) in the right-most four columns. Note that my table for 1999 was shorter, so, positions after around the 60th for that year cannot be meaningfully compared with positions from the subsequent years.

(6) U.A.E. = United Arab Emirates.

(7) The island of Cyprus is divided into the southern part, where people are of Greek ethnicity, and the northern part, with people of Turkish ethnicity. Although only one nation is recognized officially by the international community, economic indices differ substancially between the two ethnicities, and the differences are shown by the first and second numbers in pairs, for the Greek and Turkish sides, respectively. The percentages that I used in order to calculate the weighted GDP per capita and population are: Gk: 86.8%, Tk: 13.2% (same source, check "Ethnic groups").

(8) F.Y.R.O.M. = Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Not simply "Macedonia" as erroneously referred to in many texts -- probably for brevity. (Macedonia is a geographical region that overlaps with F.Y.R.O.M., but the two areas do not coincide; for example, the author was born in Macedonia, but not in F.Y.R.O.M.!)

(9) Economic indices for Iraq do not reflect the destruction of infrastructure that resulted from the US-led invasion in this country, in March 2003.

(10) "Serbia and Montenegro" appears as Yugoslavia in the tables of prior years.

(11) Otherwise known as Ivory Coast.


Last Updated on 8/22/2003
By Harry Foundalis
Email: hfoundal@indiana.edu