The region’s growth record is poor. Between
1975 and 2000, GDP per capita in high-income
OECD countries and the developing world
increased at an average annual rate of 2.20 percent
and 1.42 percent respectively. The comparable
figure for SSA was negative 0.7 percent.45
In 2003, SSA’s GDP per capita was US $513.
Comparable figures for the developing world
were US $1,289 and for the high-income OECD,
US $28,109.46 The percentage of people in SSA
living on less than US $1 a day increased from
47.4 percent in 1990 to 49 percent in 1999.47