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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) | Including Macau. |
| (8) | On 1 July 1997, Hong Kong became a
Special Administrative Region (SAR)
of China. |
| (9) | This entry is included in the more
developed regions aggregate but not
in the estimate for the geographical
region. |
| (10) | Turkey is included in Western Asia for
geographical reasons. Other classifications
include this country in Europe. |
| (11) | Comprising Algeria, Bahrain,
Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq,
Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libyan
Arab Jamahiriya, Mauritania,
Morocco, Occupied Palestinian
Territory, Oman, Qatar, Saudi
Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria,
Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and
Yemen. Regional aggregation for
demographic indicators provided by
the UN Population Division.
Aggregations for other indicators
are weighted averages based on
countries with available data. |
| (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) | More recent reports suggest this
figure might have been higher.
Future publications will reflect the
evaluation of this information. |
| (26) | Comprising Federated States of
Micronesia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall
Islands, Nauru, Northern Mariana
Islands, and Pacific Islands (Palau). |
| (27) | Comprising American Samoa,
Cook Islands, Johnston Island,
Pitcairn, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga,
Midway Islands, Tuvalu, and Wallis
and Futuna Islands. |
