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Table III: Raw Hides and Skins: Developments in Output by Type and Economic Zone over the past 15 Years

BOVINE HIDES AND SKINS
INCLUDING BUFFALOES

SHEEP AND LAMBSKINS

GOAT AND KIDSKINS

Average
1984-1986

Average
1999-2001

Growth
per
Annum

Share of
World
1999-2001

Average
1984-1986

Average
1999-2001

Growth
per
Annum

Share of World
1999-2001

Average
1984-1986

Average
1999-2001

Growth
per
Annum

Share of World
1999-2001

(..Thousand tonnes 1/..)

(.......Percent.......)

(..Thousand tonnes 2/..)

(...Percent...)

(..Thousand tonnes 3/..)

(...Percent...)

WORLD

5 195.1

5 717.7

0.6

100.0

374.1

397.2

0.4

100.0

144.2

246.2

3.6

100.0

Developing Countries 4/

2 013.7

3 076.6

2.9

53.8

142.0

199.2

2.3

50.2

132.9

233.4

3.8

94.8

Latin America

999.1

1 289.2

1.7

22.5

17.7

17.8

0.0

4.5

5.3

5.8

0.6

2.4

Africa

206.9

259.8

1.5

4.5

27.6

41.0

2.7

10.3

21.5

31.9

2.7

13.0

Near East

154.6

192.6

1.5

3.4

57.6

63.5

0.7

16.0

15.3

23.3

2.8

9.5

Far East

650.4

1 332.0

4.9

23.3

39.0

76.9

4.6

19.4

90.6

172.4

4.4

70.0

Developed Countries

3 181.4

2 641.1

-1.2

46.2

232.1

198.0

-1.1

49.8

11.3

12.9

0.9

5.2

North America

1 098.0

1 016.4

-0.5

17.8

6.0

3.7

-3.2

0.9

0.8

0.7

-0.9

0.3

Europe

1 090.3

805.3

-2.0

14.1

75.2

73.3

-0.2

18.5

6.0

6.7

0.7

2.7

Area of the Former USSR

705.7

502.3

-2.2

8.8

45.4

19.3

-5.5

4.9

2.4

2.1

-0.9

0.9

Oceania

183.5

224.1

1.3

3.9

96.0

92.9

-0.2

23.4

0.6

1.6

6.8

0.6

Other Developed

103.9

93.1

-0.7

1.6

9.5

8.7

-0.6

2.2

1.6

1.8

0.8

0.7

1/ Wet Salted Weight
2/ Dry weight without wool
3 /Dry weight
4 /Figures shown may be slightly different from the sum total due to existence of some "other developing countries" not shown separately.

Notes to Table III

Between the early eighties and the end-nineties, world output of bovine hides and skins rose by about 10 percent. Output continued to grow strongly in developing countries, reflecting improvements in cattle husbandry and expansion in beef production, while it contracted in most developed regions. Far East now produces more than any other region, developed or developing. It has surpassed Latin America reflecting the considerable expansion in tanning capacity.

World sheepskin production grew by 4 percent. As in the case of cattlehides, growth in output was higher in developing countries.

Global output of goatskins grew by more than 70 percent (3.6 percent per year) during the period under review. Production in developing countries, which dominate goatskin production, rose by almost 76 percent and in developed countries by 15 percent.


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