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Table 2.

Gross Domestic Product, Agricultural Land, Mineral Resources, and Other Capital Endowments in Asia and Other Economies Relative to the World (per capita), 2000–2004 and 2014

	Total Land per Worker^a 2000–2004	Agricultural Land per Capita^a 2000–2004	Agricultural Land Value per Capita^b 2014	Mineral Resources per Capita^b 2014	Other Capital per Capita^b^,^c 2014	GDP per Capita^b 2014
Bangladesh	4	8	36	1	6	10
Taipei,China	8	5	low	1	high	208
Republic of Korea	9	5	48	1	273	256
Japan	12	5	25	1	355	350
India	15	22	59	15	9	14
Viet Nam	18	14	104	35	13	18
Philippines	21	19	65	8	17	26
People's Republic of China	28	54	156	63	60	71
Thailand	32	39	131	9	35	54
Indonesia	40	27	78	43	25	32
Myanmar	59	42	n/a	low	low	12
Cambodia	65	49	82	0	6	10
Malaysia	74	41	143	109	136	103
Lao People's Democratic Republic	151	42	135	51	12	20
Asia	24	34	102	63	33	37
United States	144	178	117	119	640	503
Sub-Saharan Africa	165	148	78	39	11	17
Latin America	207	171	139	122	73	91
Middle East and North Africa	280	91	83	2,287	19	108
New Zealand	326	550	366	n/a	high	409
Australia	1,799	2,856	202	1,584	500	571
World	100	100	100	100	100	100

	Total Land per Worker^a 2000–2004	Agricultural Land per Capita^a 2000–2004	Agricultural Land Value per Capita^b 2014	Mineral Resources per Capita^b 2014	Other Capital per Capita^b^,^c 2014	GDP per Capita^b 2014
Bangladesh	4	8	36	1	6	10
Taipei,China	8	5	low	1	high	208
Republic of Korea	9	5	48	1	273	256
Japan	12	5	25	1	355	350
India	15	22	59	15	9	14
Viet Nam	18	14	104	35	13	18
Philippines	21	19	65	8	17	26
People's Republic of China	28	54	156	63	60	71
Thailand	32	39	131	9	35	54
Indonesia	40	27	78	43	25	32
Myanmar	59	42	n/a	low	low	12
Cambodia	65	49	82	0	6	10
Malaysia	74	41	143	109	136	103
Lao People's Democratic Republic	151	42	135	51	12	20
Asia	24	34	102	63	33	37
United States	144	178	117	119	640	503
Sub-Saharan Africa	165	148	78	39	11	17
Latin America	207	171	139	122	73	91
Middle East and North Africa	280	91	83	2,287	19	108
New Zealand	326	550	366	n/a	high	409
Australia	1,799	2,856	202	1,584	500	571
World	100	100	100	100	100	100

GDP = gross domestic product.

Notes:

^aA percentage of the world average, based on hectares.

^bA percentage of the world average, based on United States dollars at the market exchange rate.

^cOther capital refers to non-natural produced (including human) capital.

Source: Authors’ compilation drawing on 2000–2004 World Development Indicators data assembled in Sandri, Valenzuela, and Anderson (2006) and 2014 World Bank data in Lange, Wodon, and Carey (2018).

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