(PART IV)1990-1999: 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, reporting their per capita incomes (nominal) from their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) , 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 evenly divided to the citizens of the country).The nominal GDP per capita is in United States Dollars (US$) and does not take into account the country's inflation over the years.

IMF Figures 1990–1999(Cameroon and its immediate neighbours)

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

No	Country/Territory	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
	CENTRAL AFRICAN REGION
1	Cameroon	1,098	1,188	1,056	1,070	686	677	753	733	681	699
2	Central African Republic	534	499	487	416	265	334	290	277	287	283
3	Chad	286	276	281	240	190	219	238	223	245	211
4	Democratic Republic of the Congo	227	213	186	235	124	116	145	128	92	82
5	Equatorial Guinea	295	272	308	291	201	262	398	702	545	847
6	Gabon	6,400	5,628	5,649	5,332	4,032	4,655	5,214	4,759	3,908	3,965
7	Niger	321	292	284	260	177	192	199	177	195	183
8	Nigeria	348	304	267	161	179	356	431	323	291	310
9	Republic of the Congo	1,254	1,185	1,237	1,099	703	817	981	871	711	834
	WEST AFRICA
9	Ghana	618	758	748	576	497	518	552	622	681	705
10	IvoryCoast	921	861	880	793	580	746	800	759	805	767
11	Senegal	780	745	775	714	475	582	589	530	559	555
12	Togo	517	498	509	379	286	367	388	382	348	337
	SOUTHERN AFRICA
13	Angola	879	828	621	439	311	377	470	536	442	406
14	Botswana	3,187	3,028	3,025	3,123	2,959	3,228	3,285	3,374	3,454	3,615
15	Lesotho	364	398	452	440	451	473	466	480	461	441
16	Zambia	475	416	396	378	378	377	342	395	317	304
17	Zimbabwe
	EASTERN AFRICA
18	Kenya	504	462	442	299	349	433	427	460	467	427
19	Tanzania	188	212	191	171	176	213	238	273	292	298
20	Ethiopia	259	277	282	170	146	147	149	146	129	123
	NORTH AFRICA
21	Egypt	1,779	879	785	862	931	1,057	1,162	1,277	1,397	1,451
22	Morocco	1,074	1,135	1,138	1,052	1,171	1,250	1,365	1,224	1,441	1,407
23	Tunisia	1,658	1,717	2,004	1,853	1,945	2,236	2,366	2,251	2,336	2,426
	EUROPE
24	France	22,047	21,986	24,091	22,632	23,810	27,239	27,153	24,487	25,230	24,930
25	Ireland	13,626	13,733	15,314	14,112	15,435	18,831	20,639	22,222	23,835	25,832
26	Norway	27,677	27,996	29,842	27,323	28,636	34,078	36,460	35,851	34,036	35,554
27	United Kingdom	17,900	18,587	19,247	17,198	18,544	20,181	21,169	23,468	25,005	25,630
	OCEANIA
28	New Zealand	13,122	12,194	11,496	12,270	14,281	16,590	18,138	17,865	14,611	15,051
29	Papua New Guinea	857	977	1,047	1,160	1,250	1,026	1,111	1,037	776	695
	ASIA
30	China	341	353	417	517	467	601	699	771	817	861
31	Indonesia	634	699	746	838	923	1,038	1,154	1,083	473	687
32	India	384	334	330	316	352	391	396	435	430	451
33	Japan	25,140	28,542	30,973	35,377	38,759	42,516	37,425	34,307	30,981	35,014
34	South Korea	6,308	7,289	7,730	8,422	9,757	11,779	12,587	11,582	7,724	9,906
	SOUTH AMERICA
35	Brazil	3,172	2,735	2,577	2,846	3,493	4,845	5,207	5,321	5,077	3,478
36	Panama	2,219	2,392	2,669	2,861	2,995	3,005	3,486	3,709	3,954	4,074
37	Paraguay	1,213	1,622	1,610	1,587	1,681	1,892	1,999	1,992	1,770	1,606
38	Peru	1,332	1,557	1,600	1,543	1,957	2,303	2,361	2,460	2,325	2,078
39	Uruguay	3,319	3,977	4,543	5,261	6,070	6,662	7,039	7,361	7,754	7,293
	NORTH AMERICA
40	Canada	21,089	21,374	20,460	19,674	19,492	20,179	20,757	21,345	20,475	21,775
41	Mexico	3,458	4,069	4,633	5,578	5,732	3,675	4,181	4,982	5,118	5,862
42	United States of America	23,198	23,648	24,700	25,629	26,907	27,827	29,077	30,541	31,858	33,502