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The designations employed in this publication
do not imply the expression of any
opinion on the part of the United Nations
Population Fund concerning the legal status
of any country, territory or area or of its
authorities, or concerning the delimitation of
its frontiers or boundaries.
Data for small countries or areas, generally
those with population of 200,000 or
less in 1990, are not given in this table separately.
They have been included in their
regional population figures. |
| (*) | More-developed regions comprise North
America, Japan, Europe and Australia-
New Zealand. |
| (+) | Less-developed regions comprise all regions
of Africa, Latin America and Caribbean, Asia
(excluding Japan), and Melanesia,
Micronesia and Polynesia. |
| (‡) | Least-developed countries according to
standard United Nations designation. |
| (1) | Including British Indian Ocean Territory
and Seychelles. |
| (2) | Including Agalesa, Rodrigues and St. Brandon. |
| (3) | Including Sao Tome and Principe. |
| (4) | Formerly Zaire. |
| (5) | Including Western Sahara. |
| (6) | Including St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan
da Cunha. |
| (7) | Regional averages and totals exclude
Japan and Australia-New Zealand. |
| (8) | Including Macau. |
| (9) | On 1 July 1997, Hong Kong became a Special
Administrative Region (SAR) of China. |
| (10) | This entry is included in the more
developed regions aggregate but not in
the estimate for the geographical region. |
| (11) | Turkey is included in Western Asia for
geographical reasons. Other classifications
include this country in Europe. |
| (12) | Including Channel Islands, Faeroe Islands
and Isle of Man. |
| (13) | Including Andorra, Gibraltar, Holy See and
San Marino. |
| (14) | Including Leichtenstein and Monaco.
|
| (15) | Including Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda,
Aruba, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands,
Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Netherlands
Antilles, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia,
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Turks and
Caicos Islands, and United States Virgin
Islands. |
| (16) | Including Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and
French Guiana. |
| (17) | Including Bermuda, Greenland and St. Pierre
and Miquelon. |
| (18) | Including Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling)
Islands and Norfolk Island. |
| (19) | Including New Caledonia and Vanuatu.
|
| (20) | The successor States of the former
USSR are grouped under existing regions.
Eastern Europe includes Belarus, Republic of
Moldova, Russian Federation and Ukraine.
Western Asia includes Armenia, Azerbaijan
and Georgia. South Central Asia includes
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Regional
total, excluding subregion reported separately
below. |
| (21) | Regional total, excluding subregion
reported separately below. |
| (22) | These subregions are included in the
UNFPA Arab States and Europe region. |
| (23) | Estimates based on previous years' reports.
Updated data are expected. |
| (24) | Total for Eastern Europe includes some
South European Balkan States and Northern
European Baltic States. |
| (25) | This figure includes Belgium and
Luxembourg. |
| (26) | More recent reports suggest this figure
might have been higher. Future publications
will reflect the evaluation of this information. |
| (27) | Comprising Federated States of Micronesia,
Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru,
Northern Mariana Islands, Pacific Islands
(Palau) and Wake Island. |
| (28) | Comprising American Samoa, Cook Islands,
Johnston Island, Pitcairn, Samoa, Tokelau,
Tonga, Midway Islands, Tuvalu, and Wallis
and Futuna Islands. |
