Developing countries' exports grew faster than total world exports, which expanded by 20 per cent.

Share in world exports

In 1996, world exports of goods reached 5,100 billion.

The value of world exports amounted to 8.9 trillion.

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The ESCAP region is a major contributor to world trade growth, with both exports and imports growing faster than world exports and imports and with China becoming the world's third largest trading nation.

The merchandise exported by the least developed countries stood at 57.8 billion in 2004, accounting for 0.64 per cent of the world's merchandise exports, as compared to 0.56 per cent in 1990.

Ten most dynamic commodities in world exports (ranked by growth in export value), 1985 2002.

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Côte d'Ivoire is the world's largest cocoa exporter.

Sources UNCTAD, Handbook of Statistics, 2004 (exports and imports of merchandise) and World Bank, World Development Indicators 2005 (GDP).

World trade in further processed pigmeat products is especially concentrated, with the EU accounting for 60 per cent of world exports.

However, as the only outlet of oil and gas from Central Asia to the world is through the Russian pipeline network, Central Asia is actively searching for alternative pipeline routes in order to increase its exports potential to the world market (see box 1).

Developing countries account for 75 per cent of world exports of these products.

San Pedro is the second largest port of Côte d'Ivoire. It is the world's leading port for the export of cocoa and is also used to export large volumes of timber.

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World exports of finished and semi finished steel increased from 245.4 Mt. in 1996 to 337.9 Mt. in 2003.

Note Two dots () signify that data are not available.

A good' year is a period when world steel export prices, FOB the foreign port, are selling at about 80 per cent of the US price.

A bad' year is when world steel export prices, FOB the foreign port, sell at less than 75 per cent of the US price.

The share of developing countries in world total exports of services was 22 per cent in 2003, while their share in imports was 24 per cent.

The developing countries have a share of 23 per cent in world services exports.

The nine most important exporters of agricultural commodities are all from the developed world.

The value of world exports of iron and steel (Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) position 67) doubled in the period 1985 2002 from US 70.3 billion to US 143.2 billion, while their share in world total merchandise exports fell from 3.64 per cent to 2.27 per cent and their share in world commodities exports rose by 0.5 per cent (from 10.2 per cent in 1985 to 10.7 per cent in 2002).

However, poverty remains pressing in a region that now accounts for about 40 per cent of the world s poor, but only about a quarter of global population.

Thus, steel products as a group were less dynamic than world exports but slightly more dynamic than commodities.

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(per cent) Share in world imports

In chilled and frozen beef, developed countries account for 80 per cent of world exports.

Cancer currently accounts for 31 per cent of male deaths and 26 per cent of female deaths.

The reduction of the export refunds and of the subsidized export quotas will increase the chances of the developing countries becoming more actively involved in the world market in future.

With regard to exports, least developed countries share of world exports declined from 0.8 per cent in 1990 to 0.3 per cent in the late 1990s.

Over the last 25 years, Africa's share of world exports has been declining, from approximately 6 per cent in 1980 to approximately 2 per cent in 2004, for the continent as a whole. Sub Saharan Africa's share of world exports is estimated at 1.5 per cent.

Income has gone up for a majority of the world's population, despite the population going up by about two billion people over this period.

In the mid 1950s, the share of sub Saharan Africa in world exports was 3.1 per cent.

One fourth of the world's population is subject to severe poverty.

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Sub Saharan Africa's merchandise exports stood at 146 billion in 2004, accounting for a modest share of 1.6 per cent of world exports.

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