§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will list in ascending order of progress the 16 key countries in Sub-Saharan Africa for which the Millennium Development Goal on poverty reduction was set. [171681]
§ Hilary BennThe PSA target for poverty reduction relates to the entire region of Sub-Saharan Africa and is not based on the 16 key countries because comparable data over time are not available at the country level. The latest figures show that the percentage of the population below $1 a day1 in Sub-Saharan Africa is 49 per cent. (compared to a 1990 figure of 47.4 per cent.). The latest comparable figures for nine of our 16 key countries are given in the following table.
Percentage of population below $1 a day1 South Africa <2 Kenya 23.0 Mozambique 37.9 Malawi 41.7 Ghana 44.8 Zambia 63.7 Nigeria 70.2 Ethiopia 81.9 Uganda 82.2 Congo, DR 2— Lesotho 2— Rwanda 2— Sierra Leone 2— Sudan 2— Tanzania 2— Zimbabwe 2— Sub-Saharan Africa 49.0 1The percentage of the population living below the commonly used international $1 a day standard, measured in 1993 international prices and adjusted for local currency using purchasing power parities. 2Not available.