Table 1. Compound Annual Growth Rates for Crop Output and
Population and Change in Crop Output per Person, Selected Countries
|
Region and |
Crop |
Population, |
Changes in |
|
Percent |
Percent |
Percent | |
|
Latin America | |||
|
Argentina |
2.8 |
1.7 |
1.1 |
|
Brazil |
4.2 |
3.1 |
1.1 |
|
Chile |
2.8 |
2.5 |
.3 |
|
Colombia |
2.6 |
2.2 |
.4 |
|
Costa Rica |
5.6 |
2.3 |
3.2 |
|
Mexico |
6.3 |
3.1 |
3.1 |
|
Venezuela |
4.5 |
4.0 |
.5 |
|
Near East and South Asia | |||
|
Egypt |
2.0 |
2.4 |
— .4 |
|
Greece |
3.7 |
1.0 |
2.7 |
|
India |
3.1 |
2.0 |
1.1 |
|
Iran |
3.6 |
2.2 |
1.4 |
|
Israel |
9.7 |
5.2 |
4.3 |
|
Jordan3 |
— 1.9 |
2.6 |
— 4.5 |
|
Pakistan1 |
1.8 |
2.2 |
— .6 |
|
Turkey |
4.5 |
2.9 |
1.6 |
|
Far East | |||
|
Japan |
2.8 |
1.2 |
1.6 |
|
Philippines |
5.2 |
3.2 |
2.0 |
|
Taiwan |
4.5 |
3.4 |
1.1 |
|
Thailand |
4.4 |
3.2 |
1.2 |
|
Europe | |||
|
Poland |
3.0 |
1.8 |
1.2 |
|
Spain |
2.7 |
.8 |
1.9 |
|
Yugoslavia |
5.1 |
1.1 |
4.0 |
|
Africa | |||
|
Nigeria |
2.6 |
3.7 |
— 1.1 |
|
Sudan |
8.0 |
3.4 |
4.4 |
|
Tanganyika |
5.2 |
1.8 |
3.3 |
|
Tunisia |
1.6 |
1.8 |
— .2 |
1 Estimates by Economic Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture.
2 From United Nations, Compendium of Social Statistics, 1963, Series K, No. 2,
Table 1, pp. 22-30, except estimate for Israel is from Y. Mundlak, Long-Term
Projections of Supply and Demand for Agricultural Products in Israel, Falk Project
for Economic Research in Israel, Ierusalem, May 1964, p. 204.
3Wheat crop failure in recent years accounts for low growth rate for crop output.
4Pakistan has had a marked increase in crop output during the last two years.
These growth rates are much larger than those achieved in the
United States, Canada, and West European countries during early
periods of their development. In the United States, for example,
total farm output increased only 2.2 percent a year during the period
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