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Table A.2 Characteristics of the least developed economies in 1989

  Share of
minus
resource
balance
in GDP		 Share of
public
revenues
in GDP		 Share of
public
consumption In
GDP		 Share of
taxes on
goods and
services
in GDP		 Share of
taxes on
trade
In GDP		 Share of
domestic
savings
in GDP		 Share of
total
surplus
in non
agricultural		 Share of food
in consumer
expenditure
GDP
Percent Percent Percent Percent Percent Percent Percent Percent
Average (or Total) 2   9       26 54.4
India and China 2   8       30 56.9
All others 4   12       18 49.3
1 Mozambique 53   25       -19 161.1
2 Ethiopia 8 27.6 26 5.8 5.4 5 66.8 50
3 Tanzania 26   12     -5 112.5 64
4 Somalia 35   23       -14 124.6
5 Bangladesh 11 8.7 8 2.9 2.7 1 35.9 59
6 Lao PDR 13   15       -2 26.0
7 Malawi 15 22.2 15 7.9 3.5 4 52.6 55
8 Nepal 12 11.2 11 4.0 3.4 7 71.6 57
9 Chad 22 6.4 21   0.5 2.9 -13 46.6
10 Burundi 13   17       5 79.1
11 Sierra Leone 6 8.9 10 2.3 4.0 5 38.9 56
12 Madagascar 5   8     8 30.6 59
13 Nigeria -8 15.4 9 1.0 2.5 21 31.7 52
14 Uganda 11 5.0 7   1.0 3.8 2 60.5
15 Zaire -3 8.8 10 1.0 4.0 16 32.7 55
16 Mali 15 20.1 10 5.8 2.4 11 74.6 57
17 Niger 6   12       3 34.6
18 Burkina Faso 17 13.0 13   1.7 5.1 2 49.5
19 Rwanda 9   14     6 45.9 30
20 India 3 18.5 12 6.6 4.9 21 51.7 52
21 China 1   6     36 61.8 61
22 Haiti 8   10     5 31.1  
23 Kenya 6 26.5 19 11.5 4.8 20 63.7 39
24 Pakistan 6 20.2 17 6.7 6.6 11 48.0 54
25 Benin 4   8     5 31.2 37
26 Central African RE 11 14.6 15 1.9 6.6 -1 41.4  
27 Ghana 6 14.7 9 4.2 5.2 6 41.1 50
28 Togo 7 30.8 17 2.4 9.9 13 57.0  
29 Zambia 4 7.1 10 2.6 1.1 5 21.9 37
30 Guinea -1   10     19 39.7  
31 Sri Lanka 9 24.6 10 11.8 7.0 12 41.9 43
32 Lesotho 121 50.8 19 11.3 28.3 -55 112.5  
33 Indonesia -2 17.4 9 4.3 1.0 37 57.5 48
34 Mauritania 7 22.8 13 4 4 8.4 8 44.6  
35 Afghanistan                
36 Bhutan 20   14     19    
37 Kampuchea, Dem.                
38 Liberia                
39 Myanmar                
40 Sudan                
41 Viet Nam               60

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