HC Deb 20 July 1990 vol 176 cc742-3W
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