Uganda ($280)^b

100

100

100

Coffee

95.6%

Tea

0.3%^c

Eq. Guinea ($410)

100

91

NA

Cocoa

34.4%

Coffee

3.1%

Sao Tome & Pr. ($490)

99

100

NA

Cocoa

95.5%

Copra

1.8%

Ethiopia ($120)

99

99

99

Coffee

53.8%

Hides

15.3%

Rwanda ($320)

99

99

100

Coffee

75.5%

Tea

10.8%^c

Yemen PDR ($430)

99

NA

94

NA

NA

Zambia ($290)

98

99

100

Copper

83.0%

Cobalt

5.4%

Burkina Faso ($210)

98

85

95

Cotton

32.6%

Livestock

26.8%^e

Nigeria ($290)

98

99

97

Petroleum

87.3%

Cocoa

4.7%

Liberia ($450) ^c

98

98

97

Iron Ore

63.4%

Rubber

16.1%^e

Ghana ($400)

97

98

98

Cocoa

51.1%

Gold

20.3%

Mauritania ($480)

97

99

99

Fish

65.8%

Iron Ore

33.3%

Bolivia ($570)

97

100

95

Gas

40.1%

Tin

13.9%

Niger ($300)

96

98

95

NA

NA

Somalia ($170)

95

99

86

Meat

39.7%

Banana

34.5%

Papua N.G. ($810)

95

100

90

Gold

37.7%

Copper

28.9%

Zaire ($170)

93

94

92

Copper

35.8%

Coffee

11.2%^e

Sudan ($480)

93

99

99

Cotton

30.3%

Livestock

24.4%

Ecuador ($1120)

93

93

98

Petroleum

44.8%

Fish/Shrimp

19.0%

Togo ($370)

92

85

97

Phosphate

36.2%

Cotton

12.6%

Comoros ($440)

92^c

86 ^e

NA

Cloves

41.7%

Vanilla

33.3%^c

Lao PDR ($180)

90

100^e

NA

Timber

51.7%

Electricity

19.0%

Chad ($160)

89^c

96 ^e

97

Cotton

69.4%

Hides/Skins

3.8%^e

Myanmar ($210) ^c

89

81^d

NA

Rice

32.7%

Teak

32.2%^e

Yemen A.R. ($640)

89

49

100

Oil

93.7%

Honduras ($860)

89

89

96

Bananas

39.0%

Coffee

21.0%

Congo ($910)

89

94

37

Oil

71.6%

Timber

15.6%

Cote d'Ivoire ($770)

88

90

95

Cocoa

25.7%

Coffee

13.1%

Cameroon ($1010)

88

97

94

Petroleum

48.9%

Coffee

12.2%

Paraguay ($1180)

88

NA

92

Cotton

10.3%

Timber

2.5%

Guinea-Bissau ($190)

87^c

71 ^d

NA

Cashewnut

73.3%

Groundnut

6.7%^c

Guyana ($420)

87^c

NA

NA

NA

NA

Madagascar ($190)

84

92

94

Coffee

26.6%

Cloves

5.7%

Malawi ($170)

83

93

99

Tobacco

62.8%

Tea

10.3%

Burundi ($240)

83

96

95

Coffee

82.6%

Tea

5.0%

Kenya ($370)

83

88

94

Coffee

26.2%

Tea

21.9%^c

Tanzania ($160)

81

86

87

Coffee

31.4%

Cotton

12.7%

Peru ($1300)

78

83

99

Copper

12.9%

Zinc

8.8%

Maldives ($410)

77^c

70 ^e

NA

Fish

57.1%^c

Senegal ($650)

75

81

97

Fish

26.9%

Groundnut

14.8%

Colombia ($1180)

75

72

93

Coffee

30.2%

Oil

17.0%

Benin ($390)

74

96

95

Cotton

13.4%

Fuel

9.4%

Egypt ($660)

74

92

80

Oil

64.4%

Cotton

6.5%

Dominican Rep. ($720)

74

81

98

Nickel

31.2%

Sugar

20.5%

Indonesia ($440)

71

96

96

Petroleum

40.0%

Rubber

5.0%

El Salvador ($940)

71

63

83

Coffee

60.6%

Fish

3.5%^c

Mali ($230)

70

83

97

Cotton

36.9%

Livestock

29.0%

Guatemala ($900)

62

71

86

Coffee

34.8%

Bananas

7.6%

C.A.R. ($380)

60

74

46

Diamonds

40.9%

Coffee

18.9%

Zimbabwe ($650)

60

63

85

Tobacco

21.5%

Gold

13.1%

Sri Lanka ($420)

57

79

99

Tea

25.9%

Rubber

7.0%^c

Jordan ($1500)

53

57

81

Minerals

38.6%

Food

10.2%

Morocco ($830)

50

72

95

Ph. Acid

16.8%

Phosphate

13.3%

Notes:

^a Contributions to the value of total merchandise exports in 1988, unless indicated.
^b Poor economies are those with per capita incomes of $1500 or less in 1988. US dollar figure after each country listed indicates GNP per capita in 1988.
^c 1987 value.
^d 1981-83 average value.
^e 1984 value

Source:

Barbier (1994), based on various editions of the following World Bank documents: World Development Report; Trends in Developing Countries; Commodity Trade and Price Trends; African Economic and Financial Data.