(PART I)1960-1969: HOW THE FRENCH-IMPOSED SYSTEM UNDER THE AHIDJO-BIYA REGIMES IMPOVERISHED CAMEROONIANS : A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF CAMEROON AND ITS NEIGHBOURS VERSUS SELECTED COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD.

This article includes a list of  countries in the central African region (Cameroon and its immediate neighbors) and  other countries from each of the regions of Africa,  as well as from other continents in the world all sorted by their nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, which is the market value of all the goods and services each nation produces in a given year divided by the total population ( the total amount of money each citizens gets if the yearly revenue is divided to the citizens evenly.The nominal GDP per capita is in Dollars (US$) and does not take inflation into account.

 

WorldBank Figures, 1960–1969(Cameroon and its immediate neighbours)

·         Source:Nominal GDP per capita in US Dollars(US$)

	Country/Year	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
	CENTRAL AFRICAN REGION
1	Cameroon	114	119	124	125	132	135	138	147	162	173
2	Central African Republic	75	81	80	82	88	91	93	95	110	105
3	Chad	106	111	116	118	122	126	128	131	130	132
4	Congo,Dem.Rep.	223	199	230	370	169	231	251	182	204	256
5	Congo,Rep.	130	146	156	157	165	170	184	193	200	205
6	EquatorialGuinea			35	42	48	240	251	256	234	230
7	Gabon	291	343	372	312	433	448	484	531	573	611
8	Niger	138	145	154	165	159	178	180	166	156	148
9	Nigeria	91	95	102	105	111	115	122	97	95	118
	WESTERN AFRICA
10	Ghana	181	187	192	208	227	263	266	213	200	231
11	IvoryCoast	150	164	164	186	217	206	221	225	258	262
12	Senegal	260	267	267	268	276	271	271	263	270	248
13	Togo	77	79	82	88	100	109	122	125	126	133
	SOUTHERN AFRICA
14	Botswana	58	61	65	68	72	77	84	93	102	116
15	Lesotho	41	41	47	52	57	59	60	61	62	65
16	Zambia	229	218	210	212	240	300	340	356	406	481
17	Zimbabwe	281	283	279	280	284	297	281	296	304	347
	EASTERN AFRICA
18	Ethiopia
19	Kenya	98	95	101	104	109	105	119	121	129	134
20	Tanzania
	NORTHERN AFRICA
21	Egypt	149	151	136	138	154	161	164	167	178	196
22	Morocco	175	169	193	210	215	220	209	215	225	244
23	Tunisia		202	202	231	226	214	220	225	246	256
	EUROPE
24	Ireland	684	741	799	853	966	1,024	1,076	1,153	1,126	1,294
25	France	1,320	1,410	1,559	1,723	1,885	2,012	2,158	2,313	2,503	2,715
26	UnitedKingdom	1,381	1,452	1,512	1,593	1,730	1,851	1,960	2,023	1,896	2,032
27	Norway	1,442	1,560	1,667	1,775	1,938	2,165	2,317	2,514	2,660	2,873
	OCEANIA
28	Papua New Guinea	117	122	128	133	144	159	177	196	210	232
29	NewZealand	2,313	2,343	2,449	2,622	2,814	2,152	2,191	2,188	1,885	2,055
	ASIA
30	China	92	76	70	74	84	97	103	95	90	99
31	India	84	59	58	65	75	121	91	97	100	108
32	Indonesia								55	66	76
33	Japan	479	564	634	718	836	920	1,059	1,229	1,451	1,669
34	South Korea	155	92	104	142	121	106	130	157	195	239
	SOUTH AMERICA
35	Brazil						258	312	343	371	400
36	Panama	368	399	422	454	474	505	535	578	604	644
37	Paraguay						204	208	215	220	230
38	Peru	252	276	304	324	381	438	504	497	448	487
39	Uruguay	490	603	657	584	741	701	664	581	574	717
	NORTH AMERICA
40	Canada	2,295	2,231	2,255	2,355	2,530	2,740	3,011	3,173	3,411	3,704
41	Mexico	340	357	372	401	461	486	526	558	600	646
42	United States of America	2,881	2,935	3,108	3,232	3,423	3,665	3,972	4,152	4,491	4,803