in the 1934-38 period, but in the last few years they have had net im-
ports of 20-25 million tons.
Table 2. Compound Annual Growth Rates in Food Demand and in
Crop Output, Selected Countries
Region and |
Population |
Income Growth |
Income |
Growth |
Growth |
Crop |
Percent |
Percent |
Percent |
Percent |
Percent |
Percent | |
Latin America | ||||||
Argentina |
1.7 |
— 0.1 |
0.17 |
1.7 |
2.9 |
1.2 |
Brazil |
3.1 |
2.6 |
.51 |
4.4 |
5.2 |
.7 |
Chile |
2.5 |
.9 |
.61 |
3.1 |
2.3 |
— .8 |
Colombia |
2.2 |
2.3 |
.55 |
3.5 |
4.3 |
.8 |
Costa Rica |
2.3 |
3.7 |
.60 |
4.5 |
7.9 |
3.4 |
Mexico |
3.1 |
1.9 |
.58 |
4.2 |
4.1 |
— .1 |
Venezuela |
4.0 |
3.6 |
.61 |
6.2 |
4.4 |
— 1.8 |
Near East and | ||||||
Egypt |
2.4 |
2.5 |
.65 |
4.0 |
2.8 |
— 1.2 |
Greece |
1.0 |
4.7 |
.49 |
3.3 |
1.7 |
— 1.6 |
India |
2.0 |
1.7 |
.80 |
3.4 |
3.0 |
— 0.4 |
Iran |
2.2 |
.1 |
.79 |
2.6 |
3.3 |
.7 |
Israel |
5.2 |
2.5 |
.55 |
6.6 |
5.7 |
— .9 |
Jordan |
2.6 |
1.7 |
.65 |
3.7 |
— 1.9 |
— 5.6 |
Pakistan |
2.2 |
.3 |
.80 |
2.4 |
2.8 |
.4 |
Turkey |
2.9 |
3.2 |
.49 |
4.5 |
3.1 |
— 1.4 |
Far East | ||||||
Japan |
1.2 |
7.6 |
.58 |
4.4 |
1.3 |
— 3.1 |
Philippines |
3.2 |
1.7 |
.75 |
4.5 |
3.2 |
— 1.3 |
Taiwan |
3.4 |
3.7 |
.63 |
5.7 |
3.6 |
— 2.1 |
Thailand |
3.2 |
2.4 |
.72 |
4.9 |
5.4 |
.5 |
Europe | ||||||
Poland |
1.8 |
6.0 |
.55 |
5.1 |
3.6 |
— 1.5 |
Spain |
.8 |
3.9 |
.56 |
3.0 |
2.9 |
— .1 |
Yugoslavia |
1.1 |
8.9 |
.59 |
6.3 |
4.3 |
— 2.0 |
Africa | ||||||
Nigeria |
3.7 |
1.9 |
.64 |
4.9 |
2.6 |
— 2.3 |
Sudan |
3.4 |
.8 |
.64 |
3.9 |
5.8 |
1.9 |
Tanganyika |
1.8 |
1.1 |
.64 |
2.5 |
3.1 |
.6 |
Tunisia |
1.8 |
1.7 |
.65 |
2.9 |
1.4 |
— 1.5 |
1From 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 Pro-
jections of Supply and Demand for Agricultural Products in Israel, Falk Project
for Economic Research in Israel, Jerusalem, May 1964, p. 204.
2FAO, Agricultural Commodities Projections for 1970, pp. A 14-15, and supple-
mentary data provided by FAO, Rome.
liPopulation growth plus income growth per person times income elasticity.
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