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TABLE 3
Indices of world agricultural production: Total and per capita, by region, average 1935-39 and annual
1958-59 fo 1060-61 (1) (Average 1952-53 to 1954-55 = 100)

Total production

Per capita production

Region

or
country

Average

Average annual Average annual
percent change percent change
PRAT vATRE A pee meer
1935-39 1952-54 Verage 1935-39 1952-54
to to to to
11960-61 1960-61 | 1935-39 1958-59 1959-60(2) 1960-61(* ‘1960-61 1960-61

1935-39 1958-59 1959-60(2) 1960 61(#)

Southern Area Percent Percent
Latin America . . . 72 121 123 124 3.I 3.4 103 107 106 104 0.04 0.6
Africa and West Asia 77 117 118 121 25 3.0 I00 I06 105 I05 0.2 0.7
Far East, less Japan
 4 . . . . 8 117 119 IIQ IS 27 III I0o4 I06 105 —0.3 0.7
Communist Asia . . 096 120 IIS 1II7 IO 24  IIZ I0g I02 102 —0O.4 0.3
Total. . . . 8 118 118 120 17 2.0 106 106 105 104 —0.00 0.6
Northern Area
Western Europe . . 81 110 112 115 18 2.1 gz 106
Eastern Europe (°) . 108 132 130 I31 9 44 106 123
United States and Canada
 . . . . .
Japan . . . . .
Australia and New
Zealand . . . . 74 120 ar
Total. . . . © 7118 In
World total . Be 7118 ro

34 I00 107 106 107 0.3 1.0
_- 1.a 3.I 93 III 110 iIr oO. 1.6
21 I.8 30 101 108 10ÿŸ 107 0.3 1.0

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(") Value of production at constant prices. Revised. Crops included in the index are harvested mainly between
July 1 of the first year shown and June of the following year. For a few crops and most livestook production,
estimates are for the calendar year of the year shown. - (3) Preliminary. - (3) Estimated. - (4) Includes Pacific Islands
(®) Includes Soviet Union.
Source: U. S. Department of Agriculture, The Wnrld  Fand Rudoot Tnh> and tnhh TForaign Agrienltnral Tne
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