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Table 1-2. Total population, rural population, GDP PPP, human poverty index and human development index.

Country

Total
population in
1000 (2005)

Rural population
 (%)

GDP PPP in
CI$ (2003)

Human poverty
index
(2002)a

Human
development
index (2004)b

Afghanistan

Algeria

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Bahrain

Djibouti

Egypt

Iran

Iraq

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Lebanon

Libya

Mauritania

Morocco

Oman

Pakistan

Palestine (West Bank, Gaza Strip)

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

Somalia

Sudan

Syria

Tajikistan

Tunisia

Turkey

Turkmenistan

United Arab Emirates

Uzbekistan

Yemen

Total

25,971

32,877

3,043

8,527

755

721

76,117

70,675

26,555

5,750

15,365

2,671

5,278

3,777

5,631

3,068

32,209

3,020

161,151

3,901

627

25,795

10,742

35,040

18,651

6,356

10,042

73,301

5,014

3,107

26,410

21,481

723,628

76

40

36

50

10

15

58

32

33

21

44

4

66

12

11

36

40

21

65

35

8

12

64

59

50

76

36

33

54

15

63

74

n/a

6,248

3,607

3,606

n/a

2,144

3,950

7,145

n/a

4,319

6,556

n/a

1,714

n/a

n/a

1,896

4,012

n/a

1,971

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

2,046

3,575

1,119

7,083

6,749

5,884

n/a

1,737

889

n/a

21.9

n/a

n/a

n/a

34.3

30.9

16.4

n/a

7.2

n/a

n/a

n/a

9.5

n/a

48.3

34.5

31.5

41.9

n/a

n/a

15.8

n/a

31.6

13.7

n/a

19.2

12.0

n/a

n/a

n/a

40.0

n/a

0.728

0.768

0.736

0.859

0.494

0.702

0.746

n/a

0.760

0.774

0.871

0.705

0.774

0.798

0.486

0.640

0.810

0.539

0.736

0.844

0.777

n/a

0.516

0.716

0.652

0.760

0.757

0.724

0.839

0.696

0.492

PPP = purchasing power parity; CI$ = constant USD; n/a = not available

ascale of 1 to 100

bscale of 0 to 1

Source: World Bank, 2006.