HC Deb 21 December 1961 vol 651 cc185-6W
Sir C. Osborne

asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will give in column form the total population, the area in square miles or kilometres and the income per capita of each nation member of the United Nations.

Mr. P. Thomas

The population and area in square kilometres of member countries of the United Nations are given in the 1960 edition of the United Nations Statistical Year Book.

Although the regional Economic Commissions of the United Nations have from time to time published the figures of per capita income for a limited number of countries, no comprehensive study of the per capita income of United Nations member countries has been available since the publication in October, 1956, of a booklet called "Per Capita National Product of 55 Countries, 1952–54" (United Nations Statistical Papers, Series E, No. 4). Copies of this publication and of the United Nations Statistical Year Book, 1960, are in the Library of the House.