# annual economic growth % real GDP, 1980-1991 s_korea 10 china 9.4 botswana 9.3 oman 9.3 bhutan 9 thailand 7.8 taiwan 7.6 mauritius 7.2 singapore 7.1 mongolia 7 hk 6.9 pakistan 6.5 chad 6.3 cyprus 6 uganda 5.9 indonesia 5.8 malaysia 5.6 india 5.5 turkey 5.4 nepal 4.7 egypt 4.5 burundi 4.3 japan 4.3 morocco 4.3 bangladesh 4.2 laos 4.2 luxembourg 4.2 vietnam 4.2 kenya 4.1 kirgizstan 4.1 belorussia 4 burkina_faso 4 e_germany 4 sri_lanka 4 israel 3.7 zimbabwe 3.6 malawi 3.5 malta 3.5 syria 3.5 tunisia 3.5 iraq -14.4 qatar -6.6 trinidad_and_tobago -3.9 libya -3 suriname -2.2 kuwait -2 uae -1.8 liberia -1.6 nicaragua -1.4 mozambique -1.1 gabon -0.9 niger -0.9 yugoslavia -0.7 haiti -0.6 peru -0.4 argentina -0.2 bahrain 0.1 uruguay 0.2 cote_d'ivoire 0.3 myanmar .3 panama .3 romania .3 sudan .3 boliva .5 hungary .5 madagascar .5 rwanda .5 mauritania .6 czechoslvakia .7 zambia .7 guatemala 1 jamaica 1 nz 1 el_salvador 1.1 sierra_leone 1.1 venezuela 1.1 car 1.2 philippines 1.2 poland 1.2 nigeria 1.4