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Member Countries. The COMCEC average is significantly lower at 29 percent. There is virtually
no difference between the African and the Arab groups. The low percentage is alarming in the
sense that more than two thirds of the data presented in FAOSTAT for COMCEC Member
Countries in Africa are FAO estimates.
Table 12: Average Percentage of Official Records in FAOSTAT in Africa (2005-2011)
Average Production Trade Producer
Prices
Land
Use
Fertilizer Pesticides Machinery
African Group 28 32 35 23 27 10 22 48
Benin 21 44 43 36 24 3 - -
Burkina Faso 41 38 30 26 25 3 62 100
Cameroon 40 32 57 11 37 39 52 53
Chad 10 13 4 33 20 0 - -
Côte d'Ivoire 27 47 70 32 22 18 - -
Gabon 9 1 22 - 32 6 - -
Gambia 33 29 47 0 44 13 40 60
Guinea 11 17 12 10 16 7 14 -
Guinea-Bissau 9 18 2 28 17 - -
Mali 50 47 41 36 25 9 93 100
Mozambique 26 28 1 21 36 8 0 88
Niger 40 41 52 22 54 8 33 68
Nigeria 30 39 16 20 24 10 - 100
Senegal 47 63 74 80 30 18 - 64
Sierra Leone 3 13 1 - 6 0 - -
Togo 45 31 51 30 17 6 88 93
Uganda 37 40 69 - 37 15 - 97
Arab Group 29 34 32 23 51 9 20 31
Algeria 57 61 54 36 72 17 57 100
Comoros 12 0 0 29 0 57
Djibouti 5 8 1 24
Egypt 48 58 57 63 55 10 90
Libya 6 9 1 29 6
Mauritania 18 19 48 29 29
Morocco 38 55 57 35 71 26 25
Sudan 26 60 10 35 71 3
Tunisia 48 39 57 40 83 15 10 92
COMCEC
Average
29 33 34 23 36 9 22 43
AFCAS
Average
35 38 46 36 33 11 25 53
Source: FAO, 2013a.
The best performers are Mali in the African group and Algeria in the Arab group, which are the
only countries with equal to or more than 50 percent official data in FAOSTAT. Worst
performers are Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone in the African group, and
Dijibouti and Libya in the Arab group with less than 10 percent official data in FAOSTAT.