which african country is the poorest?
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ZAMBIA\n\nOver 70 percent of Zambians live in poverty. Per capita annual incomes are currently at about one-half their levels at independence and, at $395, place the country among the world's poorest nations. Social indicators continue to decline, particularly in measurements of life expectancy at birth (about 37 years) and maternal mortality (729 per 100,000 pregnancies). The country's rate of economic growth cannot support rapid population growth or the strain which HIV/AIDS related issues (i.e., rising medical costs, decline in worker productivity) place on government resources. Zambia is also one of Sub-Saharan Africa's most highly urbanized countries. Almost one-half of the country's 10 million people are concentrated in a few urban zones strung along the major transportation corridors, while rural areas are underpopulated. Unemployment and underemployment are serious problems.
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I'd say most developing countries: African countries and SouthAmerican countries (first) and then Eastern Europe countries.
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Bottom of South Africa!\n\nWaho
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Sadly, I think it is Mozambique.
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This is so easy, the most impoverished nation on the planet is Mozambique in Africa. \n\nIn my church they showed us a picture of a native and he was wearing two-liter coke bottles strapped to his feet for shoes....you should google Mozambique and write and essay on what life would be like living in that country versus the goold old US of A.
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Aids, blacks, starving children, poverty, hot
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When people talk about the poorest countries of the world, they often refer to them with the general term Third World, and they think everybody knows what they are talking about. But when you ask them if there is a Third World, what about a Second or a First World, you almost always get an evasive answer. Other people even try to use the terms as a ranking scheme for the state of development of countries, with the First world on top, followed by the Second world and so on, that's perfect - nonsense. \nAny ways, u have asked for the list so i m trying my best to stop myself from going into the thoughtful mode..... here it goes.. according to World Bank the list of Third world countirs and their GPAs are :- (marked *)\n\n1    Timor-Leste South-East Asia                                    *400 \n2    Malawi Eastern Africa                                                *596 \n3    Somalia Eastern Africa                                              *600 \n4    Democratic Republic of the Congo Middle Africa      *675 \n5    Tanzania Eastern Africa                                             *720 \n6    Yemen Middle East                                                     *745 \n7    Burundi Eastern Africa                                                *753 \n8    Afghanistan Central Asia                                             *800 \n9    Guinea-Bissau Western Africa                                   *856 \n10  Ethiopia Eastern Africa                                               *859 \n11  Niger Western Africa                                                  *896 \n12  Liberia Western Africa                                                *900 \n13  Sierra Leone Western Africa                                      *901 \n14  Madagascar Eastern Africa                                        *911 \n15  Zambia Eastern Africa                                                *911 \n16  Eritrea Eastern Africa                                                 *917
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try the CIA Website, you have to know what the countries of Africa are though !
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No.......wars dont make countries poor,  just the poor people poorer and poor living people dead....
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Lesser-Developed Countries
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The richest person in Africa is Nicky Oppenheimer from South Africa. I guess the most curropt country in the world is Somalia (goverment is not running the country at all).
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No.  It comes from industrialization.  Most western nations have been industrialized for some time and it generates wealth.  Africa has resources, but have corrupt governments and tribalism that is hampering its ability to industrialize.  You have to get a centralized government that functions and have rules of trade that will allow people to earn profit for a country to industrialize.  Unless that happens, poor nations will stay poor.  It is not the work of the western world keeping them poor.  It is up to them to make it work.
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Western Europe, the US, Canada and Japan are the richest countries in the world (Luxemborg is technically the richest as it has the highest per capita GDP, with Norway and the US in 2nd and third), with several other nations such as South Korea and Singapore are on the rise.  \n\nThe poorest regions are sub-saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America.  The middle east is kind of an anomaly as the countries are quite rich, yet have an extremely low standard of living.\n\nThe only real change being seen is in east Asia where nations are beginning to develop there economies.  Other than that the only other change is the widening gap between rich and poor.
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Hi - you may have heard of the ONE campaign?  (go to www.one.org)  They have information & links to the following where you can find the figures you're looking for.\n\nTHE DEBT CRISIS\nwww.data.org\n\nFor decades, Sub-Saharan Africa, the poorest region of the world, was spending billions of dollars each year repaying debts to the world’s rich countries and international institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. \n\nMany countries in Africa were spending more each year on debt than on health care and education combined. Why? Decades worth of loans had been given without much thought to how countries could pay them back. \n\nSome of the loans went to prop up bad governments or military regimes that are now long gone. Some of the loans were wasted by the governments that received them. Some were given by rich countries in ways that served their own self-interest. Skyrocketing interest rates and bad economic policies have multiplied these old debts over and over again. \n\nBetween 1970 and 2002 Africa received $540 billion in loans. Despite the fact that over that same period, African countries paid back $550 billion—$10 billion more than the original loans—at the end of 2002 they\nstill owed another $293 billion. Over the past few years, thanks to the efforts of those who contributed to the international Jubilee 2000 movement for debt relief, politicians have begun to respond to the debt crisis. \n\nIn 1999, the world’s richest countries came\ntogether to write off billions of dollars of poor countries’ debts through the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) program. The HIPC program provides debt relief to countries with good governments committed to fighting corruption and poverty and investing in the health and education of their people. \n\nThere are 38 countries currently enrolled in the HIPC initiative (32 of them in Africa) and so far 18 of them have completed the program have benefited from debt relief and have been able to channel that money into vertyreduction\nprograms; another 10 have begun the process and are receiving interim relief.\n\nThe problem is, though, that HIPC did not completely cancel countries’ debts and even after reaching their completion points, many countries were still spending too much money on debt, often taking on new loans to repay\nold loans. \n\nIn an effort to end this unending cycle of debt, the Finance Ministers of the world’s wealthiest countries agreed in June of 2005 to free the HIPC countries from 100% of their debts by canceling the debts owed to the\nWorld Bank, The IMF and the African Development Bank. \n\nIt also calls for a move from loans to grants for the poorest countries in the world in an effort to end to vicious cycle of debt in which they have been entrapped. It will\nimmediately cancel $40 billion of debt for the 18 countries that have already reached their completion point and will eventually result in $56 billion of debt cancellation once all 38 HIPC countries reach completion point. \n\nThe Finance Ministers also agreed to consider a debt deal for Nigeria even though it is not a HIPC country. Donors shortly thereafter announced a plan to use both donor resources and Nigeria’s own resources to cancel Nigeria’s outstanding debt; this is an important commitment because Nigeria has about $35b worth of debt and 95 million people living on less than $1 per day. \n\nThis debt deal is an important step in the fight against global poverty, but there are still other poor countries in need of debt cancellation so that they can better fight HIV/AIDS and extreme poverty.\n\nWhile debt cancellation alone will not generate all the resources needed by poor countries, the money freed up from\ndebt relief has consistently been put to good use; World Bank estimates show that poverty reducing expenditures will rise from previous levels of less than twice that of debt service to more than four tim
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Africa is the 'dark continent'.
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Most of Europe went through the process that African countries are going through about 600 years ago.  The problem is, we sorted them out with bows and arrows, whereas the ruling elite in Africa are armed to the teeth with 21st century weapons.\n\nNigeria and the whole of Africa is growing up far too quickly and doing so in the knowledge that there is a better life to be had if one has lots of money, and that money is available to the corrupt.\n\nThus, anyone in any position of power anywhere in Africa has the opportunity to rise above the poverty that is endemic by taking corrupt money.\n\nAfrica is doomed to have a very few rich people in positions of power while the rest of the population ekes out a living in abject poverty.\n\nWhen we achieved greatness we had to do so by ingenuity and industriousness.  All an African has to do is be dishonest.  There really is very little hope for Africa in the short term.  This is a crying shame because Africa should be the jewel of the Earth's crown.  It has everything - a beautiful coast, wonderful flora and fauna and mineral wealth beyond imagination.\n\nHowever, the people are unable to see beyond today and they are thus doomed.
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According to the annual survey by the Berlin-based organization Transparency International, the world's least corrupt country is seen as being Iceland and the countries perceived as most corrupt are Bangladesh and Chad. The index defines corruption as the abuse of public office for private gain, and measures the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among a country's public officials and politicians. It is a composite index, drawing on 16 surveys from 10 independent institutions, which gathered the opinions of businesspeople and country analysts. Only 159 of the world's countries are included in the survey, due to an absence of reliable data from the remaining countries. The scores range from ten (squeaky clean) to zero (highly corrupt). A score of 5.0 is the number Transparency International considers the borderline figure distinguishing countries that do and do not have a serious corruption problem. Countries that have improved their rating since the 2004 index were Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Estonia, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Moldova, Nigeria, Qatar, Slovakia, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, and Yemen. Some of the countries that have a worse rating since 2004 include Costa Rica, Gabon, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, and Uruguay.