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Africa (Income And Aid)

Volume 831: debated on Friday 25 February 1972

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asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list in the OFFICIAL REPORT the latest United Nations estimates or other estimates from international sources of income per head of population for each country in Africa, and the amount of development aid given to each country by Her Majesty's Government and international bodies of which the United Kingdom is a member.

The information, for the latest year available in each case, is as follows:

GROSS OFFICIAL
GNP PER CAPITABILATERAL ECONOMIC AIDMULTILATERAL FLOWS

millions US dollars

millions US dollars

GNP per capita US$

IBRD

1FC

IDA

UN

1969

1970

1968

1968

1968

1969

1969

1970

1968

1968

1968

1969

Africa—South of Sahara (cont.)

Ghana19013·170CR 1·020·032·98
Guinealess than 1000·0010·231·64
Guinea (Equitorial)290
Guinea (Portuguese)260
Ivory Coast2400·084CR 0·501·16
Kenya13026·6375·101·408·253·18
Lesotholess than 1001·5671·491·35
Liberia2000·0980·251·16
Madagascar1100·152CR 2·001·611·79
Malawiless than 10018·5012·160·95
Maliless than 1000·0081·762·17
Mauritania1400·001CR 5·932·300·730·51
Mauritius2304·064CR 0·46CR 0·10CR 0·900·80
Mozambique210
Nigerless than 1000·0280·0631·90
Nigerialess than 10027·17222·774·665·63
Republic of Zaireless than 1000·141CR 10·766·51
Reunion660
Rhodesia2400·377CR 4·540·03
Rwandaless than 1000·0130·92
Sao Tome and Princine310
Senegal2000·1560·550·700·442·33
Seychellesless than 1004·0290·06
Sierra Leone1702·237CR 0·130·97
Somalialess than 1000·4901·423·27
Spanish Sahara270
Fr. Terr. Afars and Issas600

*

St. Helena and Deps.1·0300·47
Sudan1101·6748·26CR 0·102·98
Swaziland1805·3680·640·38
Tanzanialess than 1004·873CR 2·214·523·05
Togo1000·0491·54
Uganda11011·886CR 0·36CR 0·301·340·88
Upper Voltaless than 1000·0010·47
Zambia2906·164CR 1·760·90
Other and unallocated3·736CR 4·00
EAC2·349
Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland0·029
Rhodesia, Malawi, ZambiaCR 0·001
Unspecified Africa0·009
Total145·91616·637·4035·3863·35
Total Africa147·12216·106·5040·1189·77
… Figures not available.

* 0·06 = combined figure for Comoro Is., Afars and Issas, St. Pierre et Miquelon, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna.

† Less than half the final figure shown.

Sources:—DAC Return 1970 Tbls. 2 a and 2 b.

World Bank Atlas—estimates.

DAC Financial Flows 1968.

IBRD = International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

IFC = International Finance Corporation.

IDA = International Development Association.

UN = United Nations Agencies (part).