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Mr. Allen
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, further to his answer of 13 July to the right hon. Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Sir D. Steel), Official Report, column 349, if he will give the money figures for per capita income in £ sterling and include the United Kingdom in the table.
Mrs. Chalker
The information is as follows:
| Average GNP per capita in low income countries (excluding India and China) and average GNP per capita for DAC member countries and United Kingdom 1979–1988 | |||
| Year | Low income countries GNP per capita £ sterling | DAC member countries GNP per capita £ sterling | United Kingdom GNP per capita £ sterling |
| 1979 | 125 | 4,559 | 3,455 |
| 1980 | 168 | 4,597 | 4,046 |
| 1981 | 183 | 5,296 | 4,462 |
| 1982 | 199 | 6,080 | 4,901 |
| 1983 | 208 | 7,250 | 5,345 |
| 1984 | 178 | 8,644 | 5,671 |
| 1985 | 242 | 9,373 | 6,186 |
| 1986 | 221 | 10,074 | 6,673 |
| 1987 | 161 | 10,394 | 7,282 |
| 1988 | 194 | 10,617 | 8,051 |
Sources:
OECD—DAC chairman's report, 1981–1989.
World bank atlas 1989.
Note 1: Low income countries as classified by OECD are those
countries which have GNP per capita of
- 1979—less than $500 in 1979
- 1980–82—less than $600 in 1980
- 1983–86—less than $700 in 1983
- 1987–88—less than $700 in 1987
Note 2: Sterling-US dollar exchange rates used
- 1979 0.4713
- 1980 0.4299
- 1981 0.4931
- 1982 0.5713
- 1983 0.6592
- 1984 0.7483
- 1985 0.7714
- 1986 0.6820
- 1987 0.6102
- 1988 0.5614