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APPENDIX 4: BASIC COUNTRY DATA

Country




Land Area

Population

Economic Indicators

Total

Total

Density

Annual Rate of Change

Rural

GNP per caput

Annual Growth Rate of GDP

(1996)

(1997)

(1997)

(1995-2000)

(1997)

(1995)

(1990-1995)

thousand ha

millions

#/km2

percent

percent

US$

percent

Benin

11 062

5.7

52

2.8

60.1

370

4.1

Burkina Faso

27 360

11

40

2.8

83.1

230

2.6

Cameroon

46 540

13.9

30

2.7

53.6

650

-1.8

Cape Verde

403

0.4

99

2.5

42.9

960

n.a.

Chad

125 920

6.7

5

2.8

77.2

180

1.9

Côte d’Ivoire

31 800

14.3

45

2

55.3

660

0.67

Djibouti

2 318

0.6

26

2.7

17.5

n.a.

n.a.

Eritrea

10 100

3.4

34

3.7

82.3

n.a.

n.a.

Ethiopia

100 000

60.1

60

3.2

83.7

100

n.a.

Gambia

1 000

1.2

120

2.3

69.6

320

1.6

Ghana

22 754

18.3

80

2.8

63.1

390

4.3

Guinea

24 572

7.6

31

1.3

69.4

550

3.8

Kenya

56 914

28.4

50

2.2

69.7

280

1.4

Mali

122 019

11.5

9

3

71.9

250

2.5

Mauritania

102 522

2.4

2

2.5

46.3

460

4

Niger

126 670

9.8

8

3.3

80.9

220

0.5

Nigeria

91 077

118.4

130

2.8

58.7

260

1.6

Senegal

19 253

8.8

46

2.7

55

600

1.9

Somalia

62 734

10.2

16

3.9

73.6

n.a.

n.a.

Sudan

237 600

27.9

12

2.2

66.8

n.a.

6.8

Togo

5 439

4.3

79

2.7

68.3

310

-3.4

Total

1 228 057

365

*

*

*

*

*

Notes: numbers may not tally due to rounding;
n.a. = not available;

Source: State of the World’s Forests, FAO, 1999


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